Posted on 01/26/2005 12:33:44 PM PST by JustAnotherSavage
Norte o Gangs Moving North
By Barry R. Clausen
January 2005
During the last several years there have been a large volume of raids on Mexican Mafia marijuana gardens throughout our country. Information is now available on who these Mafia gang families are. In Northern California “Norte o” gangs are invading many cities and rural communities. One of their identifying pieces of clothing is a red bandana or a San Francisco 49ers bomber jacket while their counterparts; the Sore o’s from the south wear a blue bandana.
The Norteno’s are comprised of any Hispanic gang member north of Fresno. Lau and Pulido along with Nuestra members being most prevalent in Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama and other northern counties. According to documents these organized families are believed responsible for the murders of upwards of 300 of their own Mexican brothers.
Northern California has been and will continue to be one of the most desirable areas for these cartels/gangs to produce their marijuana crops as a result of the hot weather and access to the I-5 corridor.
Marijuana Eradication Teams (MET) are comprised of both local and federal agents. At the conclusion of this last summers growing season, MET agents from the Siskiyou County Sheriff Department, the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management made arrests in Merced, California. Unprocessed marijuana from Northern California gardens were sent to an isolated barn just off of I-5 in Merced where one raid resulted in the arrests of 64 Mexican Nationals connected to the Pulido Family, the seizure of 20 weapons including automatics, two pounds of meth and over 4,300 pounds of marijuana.
Ceres, California is just 50 miles north of Merced and on January 12, 2005 that town became the scene of the shooting of two Ceres Police Officers. During a gun battle with police Andres Raya allegedly injured Officer Sam Ryno and killed Sgt. Howard Stevenson. Raya a member of the “Norte o’s” is also a 19-year-old Marine that had recently returned from Iraq. Another former Marine and a member of the Nuestra Family is Gerald “Pistol” Rubalcaba is currently in Pelican Bay State Prison following the “hit” on another inmate while he was at Susanville’s California Correctional Center, which authorities say he was held responsible for.
In Siskiyou County there have been threats against local residents of the county. According to Sheriff Rick Riggins, a Hispanic marijuana grower held a man and his son at gunpoint. The grower took down their driver’s license information and they were told there would be consequences if they said anything.
Two years ago Sheriff Riggins said, “We lost $1.5 million from our budget and this year we lost over $900,000 last year.” In 2005 Riggings faces another problem – the increased in cost for helicopter flying time. The company that supplies the helicopter for Siskiyou County is increasing costs by $200 per hour and he also facing additional budget cuts.
Sheriff Riggins has been effective with his MET operations even with the budget cuts. His community awareness program is allowing more citizens to become involved. “We have had more citizen reports this last year than any other time,” Riggins told the Pioneer Press. People can report illegal activity without becoming involved. “We don’t even need their name, all they have to do is give us a direction and we will investigate,” said the Sheriff. Last year we investigated the Lau and Pulido families. Next year the sheriff has plans to investigate other arms of the Norte o families.
Riggins used an example from this last year, were there was a tip to sheriff officials, which resulted in a raid only 2 miles from the Etna City limits where over 3,000 plants were seized. This resulted in a police chase of an armed Mexican national who eventually eluded capture.
Redding Police Department, Sergeant John Hawkins of the Anti Gang Enforcement unit points out that in Redding, “There is an increase in Hispanic Gang involvement and there is also an increase in drug involvement in this area.” Hawkins is hopeful that the existing nation wide problem in urban communities is something we not see in Northern California. Commander Dan Callahan of the Shasta County Narcotics Task Force emphasized, “There is no end of crystal meth in the area.”
In Tehama County the drug problem with youth has caused devastation to many families. With Meth being the drug of choice by county youth, one only has to look at the problems that meth has created with the minors that are now incarcerated in the Tehama County Juvenile Justice Center.
Tehama County Sheriff Clay Parker has the same financial problems that all other sheriffs are facing. His department does what they can, but in order to be totally effective all counties need more resources and in addition community involvement has become most important.
In Tehama County there are know members of the Norte o’s and the number of youth involved with this known criminal enterprise is increasing. One of those claiming to be Norte o is Gabriel Farias (18). In the past, Farias has been under investigation for possession of automatic weapons. There were no formal charges filed. He is currently being held in the Tehama County Jail under $175,000 bail. He is being investigated for conspiracy to commit a crime, robbery, kidnapping, firearms violations and making criminal threats.
In Del Norte County Detective Sergeant Bill Steven explained that Del Norte County is financial strapped and as a result his drug enforcement team is at a bare minimum with both resources and manpower. Stevens did acknowledge the meth problem in his county and is hopeful that when the California budget crisis is over there will be help forthcoming. He was positive that in the future there would be changes made to help eradicate many of these illegal organizations.
A hopeful side of drug investigations comes from the Yurok Tribal Police Chief of Public Safety, Mike Ross. Ross has 40 years in law enforcement including his two terms as Sheriff in Del Norte County. He was with the Sonoma County Sheriff Department, holds a masters degree in Law Enforcement and consults to other agencies. Ross verified that there has been a drug problem in the entire area for years and that, “Meth has been the white drug of choice during that time.”
“We are aware that in the past and currently there is a drug problem up river [Klamath] but our information is non-specific. The locals want it stopped but they don’t want involvement,” said Ross. He went on to explain that the Tribe has adopted a no-tolerance drug policy and, “The Tribe is looking at a grant that will target drug manufacturing along the river, on tribal grounds and near the Tribes boundaries.” With the grant in place, one of Ross’s goals is to assign three marine deputies to work the 44 miles of the Klamath River between the Towns of Klamath and Weitchpec, California. The goal is to obtain intelligence information and to ultimately curtail the flow of drugs from that area.
Just across the border between California and Oregon is the town of Klamath, Oregon where the problem is a little different. The concern there is not only local drug producers but also the flow of drugs from California. As Officer James Williams with the Interagency Narcotics Team stated, “We have a lot of Hispanic gangs bringing narcotics in from California.”
The trial of money from these Mexican gangs through drug sales, prostitution, extortion and other gang related activities has now led to Pelican Bay State Prison where some of the money is being laundered. Pelican Bay authorities have acknowledged that inmates have accepted checks and money orders from Mexican drug families and distributed the funds to their own family members. According to a November 22, 2004 Associated Press story, “One gang member told authorities he spent upwards of $60,000 one year on his children’s college fund.”
All law enforcement agents interviewed agree, these dealers know no boundaries; there are no county lines or state lines. Whatever it takes to sell drugs and make money is acceptable. In California the problem has become a “major epidemic” and needs to be stopped.
Are the Public Defender and DA's offices General Fund Departments?
Lately, there have been the increase of people who bitterly complain that they can not going anywhere and completely stuck. Economy is really bad and social situation is far from stable. Anxiety level is high. Suicide rate skyrocketed.
Most popular solution they talk about is to immigrate to "better" country. Many of these people are young, and tend to be anti-American at home. Still, they have almost blind faith that "America" is better place to live. Even hardcore anti-American and pro-N. Korea lefties bail to America when things gets too hot socially or politically.
Yeah, they still love their "genius" president Roh Moo-hyun, too.
To these people, America is a unrealistic abstraction, which can be a bountiful land of promise or a land of imperialist brutes. Depending on the situation, they take the one and ignore the other. America can be a pretty convenient thing.
In short, they are examples of the effectiveness of public school and media brainwashing.
"The key word here is blackwhite. ...Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction to the plain facts. Applied to a Party [agent, vassal, or unwitting gamesman], it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary...." - from 1984 by George Orwell
Thanks for the good information. I've read that they are paying 50 to 100thousand each to get here. HOW do they get that kind of money?
How very appropriate at this very moment in time!
It's killing small counties. How do they survive this? You should read about Canyon County Idaho and Commissioner Morganelli.
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Morganelli's fight against illegal immigrants heats up (PAC to Support Anti-Amnesty Candidates)
Posted on 12/04/2004 1:33:37 PM PST by nj26
John M. Morganelli has gone global with his fight against illegal immigrants, drawing criticism from immigrant advocates.
Northampton County's outspoken district attorney recently formed an Internet political action committee, with which he hopes to support like-minded candidates for political office.
The Web address for Us Securing America PAC is http://www.usapac.us . Morganelli said he registered the site a few weeks ago.
''Hopefully, if it catches on, we'll be able to support candidates'' who are concerned about the growing number of illegal immigrants in the country, he said. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294468/posts
They've been in Oregon for years.
The DNC and the mediots will assure that they get their periodic "two minutes of hate," else they might get a bit strung out. ;-)
Well, I guess we need to have about a 100 or even 1000 fold increase in VERY WELL ARMED "backcountry hunters" then. Shall we?
RE: In places such as Santa Clara County where hundreds of marijuana plants were recently discovered tucked away in Joseph Grant County Park near the foothills of East San Jose.
Being very specific, I'd say we need to have a massive "wild boar" hunt at Grant. If you know what I mean .... (!)
"Straight outta .... Malibu ... "
"Norte Os" sounds like a cereal. I assume you mean "norteños," which would refer to people from northern Mexico. I don't know jack about street gangs, much less Mexican street gangs in California, but from what you posted they sound like bad news.
Indeed I do. Just got a call the other night from my cousin near Houston (BTW, he has quite a different view of Houston than "some" people we know!). He had some very good hunts this year. Also uses some sweet traps.
I'm lucky, I don't know much about gangs either, and wouldn't know if one was spelled correctly.
It's interesting how they evolve though. First you see the graffiti in your town and go, "WTH was that? And we start just painting over them, community effort, you know. Then there is too many to cover up anymore, then they come out right in your face and let you know there's nothing you can do about it.
It took my hometown about 15 years before we realized we had allowed Tijuana to occur and had nothing but PC lawmakers/enforcers who could care less. It didn't really dawn on any of us, I don't think, we had nothing to judge such a thing. The Americans who were of Mexican heritage in my hometown were my neighbors and friends, as much a part of our community as anyone born there. No one ever thought twice about those good people being a problem. What was saddest is that the illegals seemed to "migrate" to any area with hispanics, usually uninvited.
It destroyed neighborhood after neighborhood, like a slum cancer. One Mexican American friend kept building his fence higher and higher 'cause he couldn't keep the illegals out of his yard. I left the area and haven't seen him in a few years, I'm sure he moved by now. I'm sure he took a loss on what was once a NICE neighborhood. I hate to see the backlash hit Mexican Americans. They lose the most in this entire mess.
Curiosly in such cities, the property value and taxes increase to accomodate the influx of new "migrants". When you bail out of a neighborhood because it has turned into a barrio, you lose, but just try to find something you can afford in the same town. Good luck.
One has to be careful who they invite into their home. That's a lesson this country better learn quick.
For later BTTT
Aired tonight;
LOU DOBBS/CNN
PILGRIM: The president's proposal was critiqued by Representative James Sensenbrenner, who says it lacks detail. Sensenbrenner's own plan toughens standards for issuing driver's licenses to what he calls foreign visitors; aliens must prove that they are here lawfully; the license would expire when their visa does; and the bill also calls for closing a three-mile hole in the U.S.- Mexican border fence.
REP. JAMES SENSENBRENNER (R), CHAIRMAN, JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: American citizens have a right to know who is in their country, that people are who they say they are and that the name on the driver's license is the real holder's name, not some alias.
PILGRIM: Sensenbrenner pointed out that Mohammad Atta, a 9/11 terrorist, received a six-month visa to stay in the United States, yet received a Florida driver's license good for six years. The Sensenbrenner proposal already has political battle scars when it originally was part of the intelligence bill last December.
Today, attacked by Democrats on the hill, Congresswoman Jane Harman today issued a statement saying the laws call for states to provide tamper-proof driver's licenses. She said the Sensenbrenner proposal will not make Americans safer. She also criticized President Bush for not demanding full funding for 10,000 border guards called for in the intelligence reform bill.
Sensenbrenner today rallied against that attack saying the current bill is bipartisan with 115 co-sponsors.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PILGRIM: The Sensenbrenner bill also takes issue with the system where immigrants seek asylum. He says it's abused by terrorists, and he wants to allow immigration judges to determine the credibility in asylum cases so terrorists cannot get into the country on false pretexts -- Lou.
DOBBS: You know, we've reached a great point in this country, when there is a debate even over whether or not people who are not citizens of this country can receive a driver's license, let alone whether they're illegal or not, and the very idea that a president could be talking about immigration reform, but his Homeland Security secretary is saying, well, we can't really be bothered with adding another 2,000 Border Patrol agents to 2,000- or 3,000-mile the border.
PILGRIM: The good part of this is everyone is calling attention to it as much as they can, and it's very, very visible now, the gaps in the system -- Lou.
DOBBS: And our sense of absurdity is being overwhelmed, as it often is in Washington, D.C., and, hopefully, a few people's sense of alarm as well.
That brings us to the subject of our poll tonight: Do you support Congressman Sensenbrenner's bill to stop illegal aliens and potential terrorists from obtaining driver's licenses in this country? Yes or no. We ask that you vote at loudobbs.com. We'll have the results for you later in the broadcast.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/26/ldt.01.html
For the html challenged out there. :)
Thanks MUCH for the ping, Savage.
HTML challenged...that would be me!!! Thanks, sweet lady.
Aired 1/26/05 LOU DOBBS, CNN
Do you support Rep. Sensenbrenner's bill to stop illegal aliens and potential terrorists from obtaining driver's licenses in the United States?
Yes 93% 3353 votes
No 7% 264 votes
Total: 3617 votes
LOL! Somehow, I doubt that.... :)
I do not exactly know. Probably, they borrowed a lot from relatives or other sources.
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