Posted on 12/01/2018 10:04:55 PM PST by bitt
Six members of the ruthless MS-13 gang were indicted for racketeering in connection with the murder of a teen in Lynn, with the feds saying bail should be denied because they pose a serious threat to the public.
“The nature and circumstances of the (charges) are troubling and horrific,” a federal criminal affidavit reads.
That includes killing 17-year-old Herson Rivas on Aug. 2 with a large knife like they were “chopping wood.”
One of the accused, according to the affidavit, stabbed the defenseless teen “with such force his knife became warped during the attack.”
The teen’s body was found in a wooded park in Lynn. He was murdered, the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said, because the MS-13 gang members — many illegal immigrants — believed he was cooperating with law enforcement.
One of the six accused, Henri Salvador Gutierrez, 19, of Somerville, dodged deportation a month before the murder.
“Salvador succeeded in convincing an immigration court that he was not in a gang, was not violent, did not pose a threat to the public,” the feds said.
The chilling motion for detention for all six adds: “Four of the six defendants appear to have entered or remained in the United Status unlawfully. At least four of the six defendants have MS-13 tattoos indicating that they are MS-13 homeboys, suggesting that they committed a murder or other violent attack.
“At least two of the six defendants have felony records. At least two of the six defendants were previously in immigration custody but were released and went on to commit ... murder,” prosecutors state.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
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....”One of the suspects was arrested yesterday and the rest are locked up on state charges or in immigration custody, and will appear in federal court soon.
“MS-13 is a ruthless, transnational gang operating in our backyard,” said U.S. Attorney in Boston Andrew E. Lelling. “This group routinely commits senseless acts of violence, including murder, to maintain control and instill fear.
He added: “Dismantling MS-13 in Massachusetts and elsewhere is a top priority of the Department of Justice. Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies will continue working together to investigate and hold MS-13 members responsible for these heinous crimes.”
Boston police Commissioner William G. Gross has also said dismantling MS-13 is a top priority.
The indictment charges the following members of the Sykos Locos Salvatrucha clique:
ERICK LOPEZ FLORES, a/k/a “Mayimbu,” 29, of Lynn;
HENRI SALVADOR GUTIERREZ, a/k/a “Perverso,” 19, a Salvadoran national previously residing in Somerville;
ELISEO VAQUERANO CANAS, a/k/a “Peligroso,” 19, a Salvadoran national previously residing in Chelsea;
JONATHAN TERCERO YANES, a/k/a “Desalmado,” 21, a Salvadoran national previously residing in East Boston;
MARLOS REYES, a/k/a “Silencio,” 22, a Salvadoran national previously residing in Chelsea; and
DJAVIER DUGGINS, a/k/a “Haze,” 29, of Lynn”
THAT WAS FROM THE BOSTON HERALD, THE MORE CONSERVATIVE PAPER.
HERE IS THE BOSTON GLOBE:
By Maria Cramer GLOBE STAFF DECEMBER 02, 2018
Alleged MS-13 member accused of murder was once identified in Boston gang database
Henri Salvador Gutierrez had been in detention for seven months when an immigration judge ordered him released in June.
Gutierrez, a 19-year-old from Somerville, had been identified in a Boston police gang database as a member of MS-13, federal immigration officials had said, and should therefore continue to be held as the government worked to deport him.
But a federal immigrant judge ruled the gang intelligence was not reliable enough evidence to conclude the teenager was a member of the deadly international gang. Gutierrez was released and given permanent residency.
Less than six weeks later, on July 30, he and five other men allegedly stabbed 17-year-old Herson Rivas to death in Lynn.
Gutierrez later allegedly boasted that one of his alleged accomplices, Eliseo Vaquerano Canas, a.k.a. “Peligroso,” repeatedly stabbed the boy “as if he were a cow” while the teen begged for his life, according to court records. The boast was captured during a secretly recorded jailhouse conversation with a cooperating witness, according to federal filings in US District Court, while Gutierrez was in custody on an unrelated firearms charge.
The men allegedly belong to the Sykos Locos Salvatrucha clique of MS-13 and may have targeted Rivas because they believed he was cooperating with police, according to federal affidavits.
Rivas was stabbed dozens of times and left for dead in a wooded area near Henry Avenue Playground, prosecutors said.
“And Peligroso, dude, he was dicing him as if he were a cow, that [expletive]!” Gutierrez, who federal officials said goes by the nickname “Perverso” allegedly said in the jail conversation. “The knife Peligroso had, dude, looked like a saw now, dude. It broke, the son of a [expletive], on the cutting edge. It was warped. Because he was hitting him right on the skull, Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!”
Gutierrez’s arrest follows a heated debate about the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, which operates out of the Boston Police Department. The center, known as the BRIC, includes information about criminal activity and police observations of people associating with known gang members, information that can be shared with other local and federal agencies.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and other organizations have sued the Boston police in an attempt to force the department to release demographic information about who is included in the BRIC and how outside agencies access that data.
The lawsuit filed on Nov. 15 accuses Boston police of labeling Central American teenagers and young men as gang members or gang associates, often with little cause, and entering that information into a database that can be accessed by federal immigration authorities. Police have said the BRIC focuses on criminal targets and provides information that keeps the community and officers on the street safe.
The Globe wrote a story about Gutierrez’s case the day the lawsuit was filed. At the time, the Globe withheld his name at his lawyer’s request because he had received threats from a rival gang. Gutierrez’s case was not among the ones cited in the lawsuit as examples of men identified in the database.
Gutierrez was identified by the BRIC as a member of MS-13 based on several factors including his tattoo of the number “503” — the international telephone code of El Salvador — and his proclivity for wearing blue and white, colors favored by the gang.
The information had been collected by the BRIC and shared with the US Department of Homeland Security, according to a December 2017 report.
Investigators had “determined [him] to be a risk to public safety as a verified and active member of the MS-13 gang in the Boston metro area,” Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Sean Connolly wrote in the report, which was used last summer in the teenager’s deportation proceedings.
But the immigration judge, Judge Mario J. Sturla, questioned the veracity of that evidence, citing, in part the testimony of Thomas Nolan, a retired Boston police lieutenant who has studied intelligence centers like Boston’s.
Nolan testified as an expert in the teenager’s case and said police failed to show he had committed crimes in connection with the gang, one of the requirements outlined in the federal guidelines for intelligence-gathering units.
On Saturday, Nolan said he stood by his testimony.
“His having a “503” tattoo, being in the company of another purported “verified” gang member when that individual was arrested, without any supporting documentation as to why that individual was “verified” as a gang member by the BRIC, ... are not indicative of reasonable suspicion of criminal activity,” Nolan said. “Particularly when there is no supporting information provided that would support such a contention.”
In his June 22 decision, Sturla also cited Gutierrez’s cognitive disabilities, his testimony that he was abused in El Salvador, which he left to flee gang violence, and his stated desire to improve his life as factors in the decision.
“Lastly, the court finds that the respondent has made attempts to rehabilitate himself after multiple arrests for carrying knives and machetes,” Sturla wrote in his decision. “The respondent testified that he wants live a peaceful life.”
Maria Cramer can be reached at mcramer@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @globemcramer.
Four of the six are children. Children dream. Who are we to judge?
Just brutally murdering the Herson Rivas Americans won't brutally murder.
Yet the Liberals/Marxists and assorted stupid Left in Massachusetts still want to protect violent, illegal young people.
Tell that to the parents of those who were tortured and murdered, you fools. Maybe what goes round, comes round, and you’ll be the ones burying your kids. Would serve you right for being so stupid, so blind, so liberal.
More acts of love...
The judge is a fool and the former police intelligence officer is a damned fool. Now a young man is dead because of them.
Can they recall a judge for stupidity/incompetency in Massachusetts?
Can Nolan be barred from ever testifying as an ‘expert witness’? One stupid son of a bitch. That’s why there often is very little “Intelligence” amongst liberal “intelligence officers” and why the ACLU is the enemy of the American people since they worked hand in glove with the Communist Party USA and their fronts to dismantle Police Intelligence files and Units.
I know this from first hand experience as a former undercover operative in CP “legal” and anti-FBI/CIA fronts.
Genetics.
The family should sue the Feds for non enforcement of the laws.
Trump was right, the media is the enemy just one of many
“He added: “Dismantling MS-13 in Massachusetts and elsewhere is a top priority of the Department of Justice. Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies will continue working together to investigate and hold MS-13 members responsible for these heinous crimes.”
No, the top priority of the DOJ is to undermine and remove a legally elected President who is trying to stop this.
The criminal justice “system” sucks.
These murderers were brought in by OBAMA and the
Gov. of Massachusetts SECRETLY to murder Americans.
meanwhile,
The DOJ .... is busy attacking the ELECTED US President.
demo_rats are complicit in this murder due to their open borders stance.
JoMa
Lynn, Lynn the city of sin.
Lynn was a nice town in the 70s. Had a friend from Lynn who parents owned a cottage near my parents cottage in Maine. MS-13 needs to be deported...
Herson? A name that's easy to remember. The mother spoke English?
I'd suggest the area code for Honduras get changed for another: maybe 444 or 666? 'Confusing, and difficult to change.
When our neighborhood's street signs became a victim to gang-signing, I took a marker and changed the letters. :)
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