Police say Labor Day gang violence plans diverted
Snip: Fort Worth police have arrested several people they describe as, “hard core gang members”. Authorities believe the gang members were plotting a violent scheme that was set to unfold this upcoming weekend. The plan, according to police, was a retaliation that would set off a violent Labor Day weekend. Police say, it was a plan diverted.
“We pulled into it a total of about 100 officers into this operation including FBI, ICE, DPS,” said Sgt. Bill Beall, Fort Worth Gang Unit.
Agents arrest suspected MS-13 gang member
Snip: Border Patrol agents aided by National Guard members arrested a 22-year-old suspected member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang on Wednesday as he tried to re-enter the United States, Customs and Border Protection said.
Andres Gonzalo Manzaneres, of El Salvador, was one of nine illegal immigrants spotted by National Guard members monitoring images from surveillance cameras placed near the Los Tomates international bridge in Brownsville. The Guard members alerted Border Patrol agents in the field, who arrested the immigrants.
Agents processing Manzaneres noticed MS-13 style tattoos on his body, and said a fingerprint scan turned up a lengthy criminal history including prior deportation and a conviction for armed robbery in Los Angeles on Aug. 31, 2001.
Raid nets arsenal of guns; gang video
Snip: Saying an increase in violent crime on the West Bank is caused by post-Katrina gangs "fighting over turf," Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee on Wednesday showed off several high-powered weapons, including a possible grenade launcher, various narcotics and $31,000 in cash that investigators confiscated Monday in a drug raid in Waggaman.
At a news conference, Lee also showed part of an amateur video he said a Marrero gang has been selling on the streets. The video features young men displaying weapons they say will be used in carjackings and murders.
SWAT Team raids gang memeber's home
Snip: In Thursday’s raid a Hispanic gang member was taken into custody. Because of his background, including an arrest for possession of a machine gun, the SWAT team posted guards around the perimeter to make sure they weren’t targets in a retaliatory drive-by shooting.
Snip: ....federal agents busted a man named Maximiliano Castillo-Jimenez. They say the gang member ran an illegal immigrant stash house in Roma. The man is reportedly part of a notorious group of ex-Mexican military commandos. It's very rare a Zeta is arrested.
Good set of links MamaDearest.
You're right.
There are many forms of terrorism and many
terrorists. Evil -- another day.