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<p>Los Angeles gang members have joined the fray in Syria. The gang-bangers are reportedly fighting alongside the regime forces.</p> <p>MEMRI posted the transcript.</p> <p>A video-clip recently posted on the Internet shows two Armenian Power gang members from Los Angeles fighting in Syria. One of them, Wino Ayee Peeyakan, also posted a picture of himself in Hizbullah garb on his Facebook page.</p>

NOTE The following text is a quote: August 11, 2010 ICE arrests 14 men in southern Indiana during operation targeting foreign-born gang members INDIANAPOLIS - Agents with the local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in close partnership with other federal, state and local law enforcement partners, arrested 14 foreign-born gang members and gang associates during a two-day operation ending Tuesday. This is the latest joint local action of an ongoing national ICE HSI effort to target foreign-born members of violent street gangs. These arrests were made Aug. 9 and 10 in the Indiana...

Note: The following text is a quote: Superseding Indictment Returned Charging Members of the Krazy Locos Criminal Street Gang with Two Homicides, Robbery, Firearms, and Narcotics Charges Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael F. McAuliffe, Palm Beach County State Attorney, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Investigations, and Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office,...

Note: The following text is a quote: 11 arrested during ICE-led joint operation in Myrtle Beach, S.C., targeting gangs Arrests include members and associates of 18th Street, Latin Kings, and Sur13 street gangs MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Nine foreign-born gang members and associates and two U.S. citizens with ties to local violent street gangs were arrested here Wednesday following U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-led investigation. The operation, dubbed Community Shield, was a multi-agency effort spearheaded by ICE. Among the participating agencies were the Myrtle Beach Police Department's Gang Unit, 15th Circuit Drug Enforcement Unit, Myrtle Beach Police Department's Street...

There are no gang “wannabes” in Garfield County, only gang “gonnabes,” said two sheriff’s deputies assigned to a recently formed anti-gang task force. Deputies J. Miller and J. McCune, who don’t use their real first names due to the potentially dangerous nature of their work, are members of the Threat Assessment Group, or TAG, in the sheriff’s department. The group was formed after jail staff noticed an increase in gang members from California and elsewhere among the inmate population. “Then we found some of them were hanging out by some of the schools, just off school property, trying to recruit...

DOUGLAS — This past weekend was a busy one for Border Patrol agents in Cochise County. And, much of the action involved the apprehension of a large number of illegal immigrants, to include individuals with ties to notorious street gangs. The apprehensions show “more people coming in (to the United States) to cause havoc,” said Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman Mario Escalante. In the first five months of the current federal fiscal year, more than 7,400 illegal immigrants taken into custody in the sector had criminal records, compared with more than 6,500 for the same period in the previous budget...

Efforts by a street gang to recruit Fairfax County youths have led to the arrests of seven Chantilly area teenagers, ages 13 and 16... ...this time, the Latino gang Sur 13, with roots tracing to a notorious Mexican prison gang in Southern California, tried to pick up more members at Franklin Middle School, just off Centreville Road in western Fairfax County, court records state. A student at Franklin reported to the school resource officer that a student approached him during lunch period and asked him to join his gang, according to an affidavit for a search of the alleged gang...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is off his rocker. This weekend residents of Los Angeles waited with bated breath to hear the State of the City Speech from the mayor. Most Angelenos looked forward to seeing the Mayor once again since it had been while: in the wake of a sex scandal he had all but permanently relocated to the Hillary Clinton campaign bus for the last year and a half. Most residents already knew the State of the City: the City of Angels had become a much harder, more violent place what with the recent murder of Jamiel Shaw...

Authorities announced Friday the first indictment of 10 South Florida members of Sur-13, a dangerous gang that started in Southern California and has taken root in the Westgate neighborhood, west of West Palm Beach, authorities said. The arrests are the first of the 18th statewide grand jury - a multi-agency task force convened to study the growth of gang violence in South Florida - using racketeering charges. The 10 are Ernesto Campos, 25; Isaias Jacobo, 24; Victor Castillo, 24; Enrique Medran, 20; Dennis Medrano, 19; ; Kevin Medrano 19; Efran Ortiz, 25; Carlos Martinez, 21; Roberto Trejo, 18; and a...

Police say a wave of graffiti hit two north Charlotte apartment complexes Wednesday night. The graffiti includes gang tags that investigators say contains a hidden message: a violent, notorious gang may be moving in. The tags bear the name Sur 13, a violent Latin gang police say is responsible for robberies, break ins, and trafficking drugs. “By putting signs like that, they are trying to tell people that this is our area, stay away from it,” Officer Rene Quiles said. Two buildings at the Maple Run apartments, a fence, and the back of a building at the North Point apartments...

ATLANTA-BASED GANG MEMBER SENTENCED TO 13 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON ICE Agents arrest felon and three other gang members during gang enforcement operation ATLANTA, GA. - An Atlanta-based member of the violent street gang "Sureños 13" (SUR-13) was sentenced last Wednesday in the Northern District of Georgia to 13-years imprisonment on charges of re-entry after deportation, alien in possession of a firearm, and conspiracy to distribute narcotics. ICE agents in Atlanta arrested Cristo Perez-Guevara, on March 28, 2004. This was a joint investigation by ICE, Georgia Bureau of Investigations and the Cherokee County MANS Unit. ICE has filed a detainer...

Largest gang bust in Alpharetta history Deadly SUR-13 gang has 10 members arrested, deported By: Rosemary Taylor 7/14/2005 An investigation by the Alpharetta Police Crime Suppression Unit into street gangs using Alpharetta as a home base for their activities in Metro Atlanta led federal agents June 30 to an Alpharetta home only half a mile from City Hall. There amidst Surento 13 (SUR-13) gang graffiti and paraphernalia agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI’s "Safe Street" Gang Task Force, assisted by Alpharetta Police, arrested 10 members of the SUR-13 street gang on illegal immigration charges. Arrested were...