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"NJ: Feds arrest members of violent Latino gang (MS-13)"
Newark Star Ledger ^ | 03.15.05
Posted on 03/23/2005 5:58:08 PM PST by ColeusARTICLE SNIPPET: "The roundup, called Operation Community Shield, began in late February and continued through last week. It focused on 103 gang members who had been flagged as illegal immigrants after being charged in a variety of crimes, from murder to shoplifting. With the immigration charges, they now face deportation or federal prison sentences.
"This is an opening shot in our war on MS-13," said Kyle Hutchins, special agent in charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Newark office.
A more sweeping criminal investigation of the gang, targeting money-making enterprises such as drug dealing and immigrant smuggling, is now under way, authorities said. At the same time, the FBI has set up a national task force targeting the gang.
The New Jersey arrests were made in communities with burgeoning populations of Hispanic immigrants:
In Long Branch, authorities arrested the leader and a member of an MS-13 chapter called "Long Branch Locotes Salvatrucha.""
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3/24/05
Posted on 03/23/2005 9:59:41 PM PST by Straight Vermonter