Members of nationally infamous gang arrested in St. Bernard Parish

wwltv ^ | 03/08/06 | wwl

[RegulatorCountry]

"What tattoos does Nagin have?"

"I (heart) Chocolate" would be a good bet.

[weegee]

They call them "gangs" but truly they are mobsters.

[Rakkasan1]

According to the FBI, the gang does not place the same value on life and property that law abiding citizens do.

now there's some deep LEO insight.

[Ellesu]

[weegee]

Police say that the New Orleans gangsters are running back and forth between Houston and New Orleans now. They aren't in Houston because of Katrina anymore.

They are here for criminal enterprise (and leaving when the heat gets too strong).

[CajunConservative]

One of the military guys on Fox said it was organized gangs from out of state that was the problem with a lot of the looting. I think it was the colonel who said that.

[DumpsterDiver]

They wound up in the streets of L.A. and they organized themselves, really, to defend themselves against the Mexican gangs there...

Three cheers for L.A.

They are not spotters.

If you say so.

They are not assessing the landscape for this eventual organizational migration

Of course they're not.

the FBI was working with all local law enforcement agencies to make certain that a new population doesn't bring with it a new wave of crime.

The new population will bring crime with it.

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[Thrusher]

They’d rather die than be deported

Hmmm... well, that is quite a conundrum, isn't it?

[Americanexpat]

Yeah, they are craftsmen alright, they are building their crime kingdom.

[Jhohanna]

Mr. Magoo?

Awwwwwwwwww Kelly! Why you gotta bag on Mr. Magoo like that? At least he can *SEE*! :P

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"Pre-Katrina gangs were all neighborhood and housing project outfits, not necessarily connected to anything bigger. These guys might be a different story."

It is my understanding that St. Bernard Parish was, for the most part, destroyed in the flooding. Is it just territory these newly-arrived gangs are looking for? Do you have any insight on just what is attracting them?

[Gordongekko909]

St. Bernard was annihilated. I don't see why any gang would want to set up shop there, in particular, right now. I could understand them going after New Orleans proper; the gangs that we had pre-Katrina were weakened by attrition (read: 5.56 mm bullets from National Guardsmen) or just spread out all over the rest of the country. The local cops are weakened, the feds and national guard don't have their bearing straight quite yet as far as tearing up gang structures goes, and there's federal and insurance money flying all over the place. Ripe for the taking.

Seriously, though, the reason they're here is probably a lot more innocuous than that. These guys are just moving with construction crews. There happens to be a lot of construction work in New Orleans right now. They may very well be peddling dope on the side or something. I can't see these guys getting arrested for anything major, just bar fights and that sort of thing. And there's been plenty of that; these guys are more likely to get into knife fights than gun fights, compared to the thugs we used to have here.

So I wouldn't look at this as any sort of gang invasion. They might eventually decide to set up shop here, but odds are pretty strong that they haven't made that decision themselves yet.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Thanks for the reply. I have seen the construction going on -- my husband is currently pulling FEMA trailers around down there (we live in NE Louisiana) and my son (out of Houston) has been working in debris removal since October.

Glad to hear that these thugs may be transient. After all of the devastation, the last thing south Louisiana needs is MS 13 getting a foothold.

[Gritty]

They’d rather die than be deported,”

Good idea!

[Search4Truth]

Such activity would certainly not make the news. Might scare the criminals away. But it does sound like how things are handled in St. Bernard parish. A lot of heavily armed coon assess down there. And they don't suffer killers gladly. Do you have any source for those rumors? Just curious.

[in hoc signo vinces]

A guy that works down the hall from me has relatives in Materie..also is from NOLA. He went there to help clean up his parents house as well as his in-laws, he heard this from a local law enforcement person...essentially they were dredging the Army and Nat. Gaurd's hanidwork out of the rivers.

Examples of action given: A local hotel was taken over by thugs...which was reported on local and nat news...but how the situation was resolved was not reported...that's because the military went in and killed all the perps.

[Search4Truth]

Thanks for the info. I likewise heard rumors about Guard snipers dispatching looters. After which the looting stopped.

If one is willing to put 2 and 2 together, the conclusions are evident.

[river rat]

Obvious solution...

Declare open season on all gang members with the MS-13 tattoo.
Permit citizens to hunt them, bait them, cull them out of society....
Perhaps even a reward for delivering positively I.D.ed corpses...would be nice.

Why must citizens wait quietly to be victimized by these bastards who have INVADED the Republic?

Semper Fi

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

They’d rather die than be deported,” said Stephens

Works for me...

La Mara Salvatrucha is bad news.