Authorities arrested 11 alleged Hermandad de Pistoleros Latinos gang members and the alleged gang leader this week, marking the beginning of the end of a nearly three-year-long investigation. The arrests were made Thursday and Friday as part of several raids executed by Laredo police, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and area law enforcement as part of the investigation dubbed "Operation Pistol Whipped" which began in May 2003. Authorities raided several homes in Laredo and Houston in the pre-dawn hours. Nine people were arrested Thursday in Laredo and two more were arrested in Houston. A twelfth suspect, another Laredoan,...