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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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"Police: Gang Member Arrested Pushing Cart Full Of Guns Down Street"
POSTED: 5:58 pm EST March 23, 2005
UPDATED: 6:13 pm EST March 23, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MIAMI -- Miami police say they arrested a member of a violent street gang as he pushed a shopping cart carrying two .22-caliber rifles and a shotgun.
?Police arrested Edwin Reyes, 23, a citizen of Honduras, in downtown Miami Tuesday. They said he is a member of MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha 13)."
MS-13 is getting lots of press lately, but the "the 18th Street" gang is the largest in North America. The only state not touched by the 18th Street gang is Wyoming. One member of the gang unit is a school resource officer at the local reservation. He entered a 2nd grade classroom to do a presentation and was immediately "dissed" by several children. They pulled their sweatshirt hoods over their heads and turned their backs on the officer. The little sweethearts are already fully indoctrinated into the gang culture. One of the kids used the phrase "Slob" to refer to a Crip. That's something you don't do on the street unless you are prepared for a battle to the death. What a lovely culture.
It's very easy to recruit gang members on the reservation. Living on the government dole leaves lots of idle time to engage in gang activity.