On July 2, ICE and the Wichita Police Department announced the arrest of 22 “transnational gang members and their associates” in Wichita, Kansas. Thirteen of the total were arrested on July 1–presumably for administrative immigration violations—and are being held in ICE custody pending removal to their countries of origin. These include three brothers, all minors with “serious juvenile criminal histories,” who were arrested with their mother and will be voluntarily returned to Mexico, according to ICE.
Nine of the gang members were arrested “during the planning phase of the operation” based on outstanding state arrest warrants and are being held in state custody on criminal charges including burglary, theft, assault, drive-by shootings, weapons violations and various misdemeanor charges. All nine are under immigration detainers so that if they’re released from state custody, they’ll be detained by ICE. All 22 people arrested are from Mexico, and allegedly are associated with the Vato Loco Boys, Sureno 13, Players for Life, and North Side Gangsters. (ICE news release, July 2)<<<<<
scan Wichita.com is a pretty good police scanner, the one I have also has _____ and 8000 in the url, but I can’t keep it up long enough to copy it, I got it during one of the storms, for news and kept it for it is a good group and it is on now, sounds like they may still be arresting gangers, they have roads blocked and lots of cops on the air.
It appears they have a big fire going on and that is the reason for the closed streets.
The one thing that I catch on the scanners, is that the Police are taking no chances on ‘back packs’, they are on them in a flash, none are left unchecked, esp. if found under strange conditions.
LOL, when I was young, I was afraid of guns, now I am not, but am afraid of hammers, bats and back packs.
A minute ago it was a backpack, now they are enroute to check out “47 Children having a bake sale”, the caller was afraid they would get hurt, as they are darting into the traffic, to gain attention to their bake sale..................where else, than ‘Middle America?’
I always wonder if the gangs are really just gangs?
The new tools of the attack trade ‘American style’, are baseball bats and common hammers.
>>>>>The 117 non-citizens arrested in the sweep were from Belize, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Pakistan. Seven of those arrested were females.<<<<
This is the reason that I question the work ‘gang’.
I think I forgot to tell you I am going to be a Grammy again, first of Jan. and it is another boy!