MS-13 gang growing extremely dangerous, FBI says

[Tricknologist]

Gang's credo is 'rape, kill, control'

Lucky had no idea where he was headed. Hours earlier, he was thrilled to be invited to a party. Now he sat in the passenger seat of a pickup with Travieso at the wheel.

Travieso’s real name is Joseph Ivan Diaz, but nobody called him that. The nickname â┚¬”�� “mischievousâ┚¬ in Spanish â┚¬”�� just suited him. Lucky’s name was Lal Ko, a Burmese immigrant who liked the idea of being in a gang. Days earlier, the Parkview High senior had endured a load of bruises when he was “jumpedâ┚¬ into the MS-13 gang.

Ahead of them, in a Ford Excursion, was Joker: Miguel Alvarado-Linares, alleged leader of their loose-knit clique. For a couple of hours, the young men traversed the dark roads of Gwinnett County. Every so often Joker called Travieso with odd instructions. Turn here. Go there. But the longer they drove, the more apparent it was that the route was anything but aimless.

Travieso turned to Lucky. “One of us is getting killed tonight,â┚¬ he said.

His hunch came from living on the edge with MS-13, a street gang whose credo is “rape, kill, control.â┚¬ MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, has its origins in Los Angeles, the offspring of hard-nosed immigrants from El Salvador who fled a civil war and knew life afforded them no mercy.

Known for a ruthless, twisted version of camaraderie and earned respect, MS-13 is one of the nation’s fastest-growing street gangs, with hybrid versions metastasizing across the county to suburban regions like Tucker, Norcross and Lawrenceville. Their criminal enterprise, it appears, revolves around projecting an aura of the gang, not making money.

In March, federal authorities in Georgia used racketeering laws to indict 26 alleged MS-13 members, incorporating several criminal cases already charged in DeKalb and Gwinnett counties. The alleged gang members are accused of cold-blooded, indiscriminate violence, including seven slayings dating back to October 2006. Four are fugitives, federal prosecutors said. About three-quarters are illegal aliens.

While all of the alleged MS-13 members have pleaded not guilty to the charges, the federal indictment, state court records, police reports and interviews with prosecutors, defense attorneys and family members â┚¬”�� used to describe the scenes in this story â┚¬”�� depict a motley collection of young men banding together and committing violence for relatively minor reasons. Sometimes to gain recognition or settle slights, real or perceived.

Often, the victims were MS-13 rivals. Sometimes they were among their own.




Lucky had no idea where he was headed. Hours earlier, he was thrilled to be invited to a party. Now he sat in the passenger seat of a pickup with Travieso at the wheel.





Travieso’s real name is Joseph Ivan Diaz, but nobody called him that. The nickname â┚¬”�� “mischievousâ┚¬ in Spanish â┚¬”�� just suited him. Lucky’s name was Lal Ko, a Burmese immigrant who liked the idea of being in a gang. Days earlier, the Parkview High senior had endured a load of bruises when he was “jumpedâ┚¬ into the MS-13 gang.

Ahead of them, in a Ford Excursion, was Joker: Miguel Alvarado-Linares, alleged leader of their loose-knit clique. For a couple of hours, the young men traversed the dark roads of Gwinnett County. Every so often Joker called Travieso with odd instructions. Turn here. Go there. But the longer they drove, the more apparent it was that the route was anything but aimless.

Travieso turned to Lucky. “One of us is getting killed tonight,â┚¬ he said.

His hunch came from living on the edge with MS-13, a street gang whose credo is “rape, kill, control.â┚¬ MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, has its origins in Los Angeles, the offspring of hard-nosed immigrants from El Salvador who fled a civil war and knew life afforded them no mercy.

Known for a ruthless, twisted version of camaraderie and earned respect, MS-13 is one of the nation’s fastest-growing street gangs, with hybrid versions metastasizing across the county to suburban regions like Tucker, Norcross and Lawrenceville. Their criminal enterprise, it appears, revolves around projecting an aura of the gang, not making money.

In March, federal authorities in Georgia used racketeering laws to indict 26 alleged MS-13 members, incorporating several criminal cases already charged in DeKalb and Gwinnett counties. The alleged gang members are accused of cold-blooded, indiscriminate violence, including seven slayings dating back to October 2006. Four are fugitives, federal prosecutors said. About three-quarters are illegal aliens.

While all of the alleged MS-13 members have pleaded not guilty to the charges, the federal indictment, state court records, police reports and interviews with prosecutors, defense attorneys and family members â┚¬”�� used to describe the scenes in this story â┚¬”�� depict a motley collection of young men banding together and committing violence for relatively minor reasons. Sometimes to gain recognition or settle slights, real or perceived.

Often, the victims were MS-13 rivals. Sometimes they were among their own.

One-way ride

Lucky Ko spent Oct. 26, 2006, painting his room bright blue, an MS-13 color his father thought was ugly.

Lucky was fluent in Burmese, Spanish and English, and made friends in each language. By day, he was a Publix sushi chef. At night, he enjoyed clubbing and hanging out. He was a gregarious type who once ran afoul of his compadres by chatting with a rival gang member.

When he was done painting, Lucky went out to eat with a friend, Whiskey (Jose Alexi Ferrufino), an older, tattooed MS-13 member who is charged in another killing. Lucky got a call from Travieso to go to a party. Whiskey wanted to come along. No, Lucky told him, you’re not invited.

Travieso, a Honduran immigrant and worker at the Wrigley factory in Gainesville, didn’t know there was to be an execution that night. The stylish 19-year-old with longish hair and a penchant for colorful clothing thought they might do a drive-by shooting. Or set a house on fire. He wondered why Joker wanted Lucky along. Everyone knew Lucky was just too timid for those things.

Joker thought Lucky was snitching, witnesses told police, so he had to be killed.

Joker, 19, was born in El Salvador and lived in Norcross with his mother, stepfather, girlfriend and 2-year-old daughter. By night, he allegedly ordered others to kill. But to earn a living, he woke up each day at 6 a.m. and cleaned gutters with his stepdad.

After driving around, Joker allegedly called Travieso and told him to get Lucky out of the car. By now, Lucky was sobbing, knowing something bad was happening.

With Joker was Victor Pastor, a 5-foot-2, 110-pound Salvadoran native called Canario, or Canary. He and Travieso were each supposed to shoot Lucky, but Canario got carried away and fired five shots into him from behind, witnesses have told authorities. Joker has told police he had no part in the killing and left MS-13 because a hit was put out on him.

The shooting done, Canario asked for a ride to Discover Mills Mall. He wanted to see a movie.

But there was a problem. Just yards from the killing, Joker’s Ford Excursion raced into the intersection of Oakland and Herrington roads in Lawrenceville and struck a passing Volkswagen Jetta. A frantic Joker begged the other driver not to report the accident, promising to pay for the damages. The woman agreed.

Three days later, the woman called Joker. She needed a police report for insurance purposes. They agreed to return to the scene and stage the accident. Joker came with his mom. The police report on the faked crash lists her as the driver.

Days later, Lucky was buried. Photos of the service show Travieso standing graveside, grieving.

â┚¬’Life is cheap’

Police reports and court files show a disturbing level of violence involving MS-13. But surprisingly, many alleged members have relatively light rap sheets. Some live with their parents and have small children. Many work menial jobs.

There are meetings to plan violent “missionsâ┚¬ and discipline those who fail. Members even pay monthly dues. “The central, driving, galvanizing force with street gangs is recognition and respect,â┚¬ said Michael Carlson, DeKalb’s gang prosecutor. “The coin of the realm is violence, force and intimidation.â┚¬

People often think of gang members as being in it for the money, that it is “their job,â┚¬ Carlson said. But local MS-13 members work during the day so they can roll at night. Violence “is immediate and almost reflexive as an instinct,â┚¬ he said. And it is meant to be public. They are projecting a brand.

Gangs like MS-13 are less structured in Atlanta than in places like California or Texas. This means there are more factions vying for recognition, with various “leadersâ┚¬ calling shots. That disorganization can make things very dangerous.

Attorney Richard Stepp, who represented Travieso in the Gwinnett case, called MS-13’s organization “loose, at best.â┚¬

“Are they criminal masterminds? No. But life is cheap. People get shot for very little reason,â┚¬ Stepp said. “There are some very dangerous groups of men out there. But it seems more dangerous to those who are involved.â┚¬

A deadly dis

A lack of respect was apparently behind the Aug. 5, 2007, killing of 16-year-old David Hernandez, a rival gang member.

Hernandez and his younger brother, Iguacio, were working at a Shell station on Jimmy Carter Boulevard when two MS-13 members came in to buy a hot dog. When leaving, they flashed gang signals. The move angered Hernandez, a member of the gang Sur 13, who’d been shot by MS-13 months earlier.

The Hernandezes ran outside and the two sides fought, throwing sticks and rocks at each other. The MS-13 members ran off when David produced a bat and hammer.

Ernesto Escobar, aka “Pink Panther,â┚¬ was one of the MS-13 members who fled. He called an alleged MS-13 leader, Jairo Reyna Ozuna, or “Flaco,â┚¬ and told him what happened. Flaco, police say, gave Pink Panther a .45-caliber pistol and told him, “You know what you need to do.â┚¬

David Hernandez was painting lines in the Shell parking lot when MS-13 members returned. Moments later, he lay dead, paint on his pants, a gunshot wound to his chest. His pockets contained a cigarette lighter, a condom, a vial of morphine and 30 cents.

Pink Panther later told police he had second thoughts and that another gang member fired the fatal shot. He said he got a beating for not complying with orders.

No way out

Violence earns respect, settles scores and gains entry to MS-13. It’s also an exit vehicle.

In late 2006, a gang member named Miguel Guevara, or “Blacky,â┚¬ had had enough: Violence was too random. Lucky had been killed. Blacky was getting married and wanted out.

But first he had to prove himself, according to a decree allegedly issued by Joker. This meant doing a drive-by shooting of a rival Northside gang member, witnesses said. Blacky was told to go to El Chaparral, a Buford Highway nightclub and known Northside hangout.

Shortly after 3 a.m. on Christmas Eve in 2006, Blacky sat shotgun in his red pickup truck near the club waiting for his target. Witnesses said his eyes widened when he saw a Toyota Corolla drive away from the club. The pickup followed the car, which turned north on I-85. A second vehicle carrying MS-13 members followed to witness the shooting.

Some 15 miles later, as the Corolla got to Ga. 316, the truck pulled alongside. Flashes from the muzzle of a .357-caliber handgun penetrated the darkness.

The Corolla’s driver saw his window shatter and felt a sting in his arm. He turned to Jesus Gonzalez, his passenger. His head was drenched in blood. The driver sped to Gwinnett Medical Center, where Gonzalez was pronounced dead.

Blacky’s truck turned around at Sugarloaf Parkway and returned to a friend’s home, where the group excitedly recounted the shooting.

Joker told Blacky he was free to leave the gang. Blacky jumped around the house in glee. But a year later, witnesses told police, he was back in the fold.

http://www.ajc.com/news/its-a-dead-end-433983.html?imw=Y

 

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[Tricknologist]

Gang member found guilty in double murder case

Alejandro Umana

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - After deliberating for nearly eight hours in the case of a MS-13 gang member accused of murdering two people, a jury reached a guilty verdict late Monday afternoon.

Alejandro Umana was found guilty of all charges in a federal courtroom in Charlotte Monday afternoon.

The trial lasted for two weeks. The jury started deliberations in the case late Friday afternoon.

The jurors resumed deliberations for Monday morning before announcing a verdict in the case around 3:30 pm.

Umana was on trial for murdering two brothers in the name of the MS-13 gang.

Last week, Umana caused a major disruption in court when he flashed gang signs at a former gang member who testified against him.

Umana is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. When he first entered the United States, he went to California. From there, he eventually traveled to North Carolina.

Sources tell WBTV that Umana was sent by top leaders of the MS-13 gang to Greensboro and Charlotte to ensure the gang's presence in those cities was operating as it should.

Now that he has been found guilty, the sentencing phase is underway. The same jury will decide his punishment. Umana could receive the death penalty.

http://www.wbtv.com/global/story.asp?s=12334841

Updated: Apr 29, 2010

A gang member has been sentenced to die after he murdered two brothers in the name of the MS-13 gang. Sources tell us he was so bold he attempted to bring a homemade weapon into the courtroom when the trial started.

A federal jury voted Wednesday afternoon to put Alejandro Umana to death. They have been deliberating his fate since late Tuesday night. Umana's attorney plans to appeal the decision.

A jury found him guilty of murdering the two brothers in Greensboro more than a week ago, after deliberating for nearly eight hours. He was busted in 2008 as part of a huge racketeering case in Charlotte involving MS-13 members.

Gang detectives from Los Angeles were brought to Charlotte to testify in Umana's sentencing hearing this week. They say Umana was connected to three murders in California.

On the first day of jury selection, sources say Umana concealed in his pants a homemade knife which he made in jail. As U.S. Marshals patted Umana down before entering the courtroom, they found the knife near his genital area.

During the trial, Umana caused a major disruption in court when he flashed gang signs at a former gang member who testified against him.

Umana is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. When he first entered the United States, he went to California. From there, he eventually traveled to North Carolina.

http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12393050

 

[Tricknologist]

A MS-13 gang suspect who is jail in Charlotte awaiting a murder trial here has just been indicted on various murder charges in Ohio, authorities said.

The Butler County Prosecutor's Office in Ohio has announced an indictment involving a double homicide from 2008.

Hector Alvarenga Retana, 22, has been indicted in Ohio for two counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempted aggravated murder and charges involving intimidation of a witness and participating in a criminal gang.

Retana is currently charged with various murder charges in Charlotte from a killing on December 6, 2008 at 324 Belton Street. He is scheduled to go to trial for first degree murder and attempted first degree murder on November 8, 2010.

In Ohio, Retana is accused of murdering two Honduran natives: Evelvin Osveli Morales, 20, and Marlon Enamorado-Gomez, 21, on Sunday, July 13, 2008 near Casa Tequila on Dixie Highway in Fairfield, Ohio.

Evelvin Morales and Marlon Enamorado-Gomez were front-seat occupants in a parked vehicle in which Jimmy Enamorado-Gomez (brother of Marlon), age 19, was a back seat passenger. Another vehicle approached and Retana opened fire from the vehicle, killing the two front seat occupants, authorities said. Both men were shot in the head.

"The Fairfield Police Department has been working relentlessly on solving this double homicide since the night it happened," said Robin Piper, Butler County Prosecutor. "They have followed numerous leads made difficult because of language barriers. They have traveled out of state, interviewing witnesses, and have enlisted the support of other law enforcement agencies, including the F.B.I."

"We know Retana has been a transient, locating in several cities throughout the country, and has had other run-ins with the law," said Fairfield Police Chief Michael Dickey. "It's our belief he is a member of MS-13, a notoriously violent, criminal gang. We do not believe he was in Fairfield long and his movement throughout the U.S. made him difficult to track."

http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12703090

 

[Tricknologist]

MS-13 member sentenced for murder of pimp

MS-13 member Eris Ramon Arguera, 21, of Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 27 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in the murder of a pimp while robbing the pimp and a prostitute in Alexandria, Virginia on July 29, 2009, according to a report obtained by the Organized Crime Control Committee of the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

On April 5, 2010, Arguera pled guilty to conspiring to commit robbery and extortion and the aiding and abetting the use of a handgun during a crime of violence resulting in the death of the pimp, Claros Luna.

According to court records, Arguera and two other MS-13 gang members — Adolfo Amaya Portillo and Alcides Umaña — posed as potential customers for prostitution and lured Luna and a prostitute to Manor Road in Alexandria, Virginia., on July 29, 2009.

Once Luna and the prostitute arrived at Manor Road, the prostitute exited the vehicle and entered the apartment building at 704 Manor Road. Arguera, brandishing a handgun, met the prostitute in the lobby and directed her to the nearby vehicle where Luna sat waiting in the driver’s seat. Arguera and the prostitute entered the rear driver’s side door of the vehicle.

Portillo, armed with a handgun, entered the front passenger door. Umaña, armed with a knife, entered the rear passenger-side door of the vehicle. Portillo demanded rent or extortion payments from Luna. Luna attempted to grab Portillo’s handgun. Umaña then put his knife to Luna’s throat. Portillo and Arguera fatally shot Luna three times.

Portillo fired two of the three fatal shots — one to Luna’s chest and a second contact wound to Luna’s head. A third shot entered the left side of Luna’s back and exited his chest. Portillo, Arguera, and Umaña then took the money that Luna and the prostitute had earned from their prostitution business that day.

Arguera fled the area after the murder and was hiding in Texas until his arrest by law enforcement. A citizen of El Salvador, Arguera is in the United States illegally and will be turned over to immigration authorities following his release from prison for deportation proceedings.

This case was investigated by the Alexandria Police Department and FBI’s Washington Field Office, with assistance from the Fairfax County and Arlington County Police Departments and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s Office of Investigations in Washington, D.C.

http://www.examiner.com/x-2684-Law-...7d14-MS13-member-sentenced-for-murder-of-pimp

 

[Rasp]

Multi-agency effort results in 158 gang-related arrests

SALT LAKE CITY -- A four-month operation led to a record number of arrests of gang members or those with gang ties in Utah, and most of them are in the country illegally.

Authorities say this was the largest enforcement effort of its kind in Utah. Led by the federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, police targeted members of dangerous transnational street gangs.

"The operation targeted individuals in 23 communities statewide," said Kumar Kibble, special agent in charge of ICE in the Rocky Mountain region.

"For too long, street gangs here and elsewhere have used violence and intimidation to hold communities hostage," Kibble continued. "As this operation makes clear, now it's the gang members that have something to fear."

Mario Garcia Castro, of Provo, was among those arrested. Authorities say Castro, a known gang member, offered to pay a friend $200 to beat up his pregnant girlfriend so she'd miscarry.

"When the state's criminal case is completed, Garcia will come into ICE custody and we will seek to remove him from the country," Kibble said.

Over four months, ICE and local law enforcement officers nabbed 158 people -- all gang members or affiliated with gangs. Most of them are in the country illegally.

Of those arrested, 93 face federal and state criminal charges that include solicitation to commit aggravated murder, forcible sexual abuse and illegal re-entry.

The remaining 65 will not be charged with a crime, but they either face deportation or have already been deported.

"This was a good time for us to show there is a lot being done in the immigration area, and that we enjoy unprecedented cooperation with local law enforcement," said U.S. Attorney for Utah Carlie Christensen.

Authorities say the group has ties to more than 50 street gangs. Local police say many of them are behind crimes in their cities.

"I hope our residents understand that we're not only getting rid of gang members, but we're also affecting so many other crimes that certainly happen in our communities," said South Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Snyder.

"Gang violence is something that is not isolated to the larger metropolitan areas. These gang members will infiltrate these small communities where they feel they can actually live in virtual anonymity," said Jon Lines, assistant special agent in charge of ICE in the Rocky Mountain region.

 

[Tricknologist]

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - MS-13 is known as a highly organized gang which makes it its business to demand respect. This is the story about HOW North Carolina prosecutors took down the command staff of Charlotte's MS-13.

It took five years of investigation and legal proceedings, but after two federal trials, the indictment of 26 gang members and 400 pieces of evidence, the U.S. Attorney's Office tells WBTV: "We did it."

This dismantling of the gang's leadership in our area ended up being one of the biggest MS-13 cases in the country.

"There is no question that Charlotte is a hub for MS-13 activity," says Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Zolot, who works in the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Western District of North Carolina. "But this case really put a dent in MS-13."

Zolot was one of the key prosecutors in the MS-13 proceedings. He says a main reason the case worked was because of two informants who turned against MS-13 in order to help the Feds. These two informants secretly taped MS-13 gang meetings in Charlotte and Greensboro. The Feds translated the tapes before publicly releasing them to WBTV.

In one you see a handful of guys standing in a living room, talking in fast Spanish.

"About the deal in Charlotte, there are a s***load of dudes that are snitches," says Julio Cesar Rosales Lopez, who goes by the gang name "Stiler". "Since we are the big hood, before doing anything else, we need to take out those pieces too. You know, homeboys," he says to the group standing around him, "if there is a dude who pisses off the hood, well, he can't be forgiven. Understand?"

In another undercover video you hear gang member Heverth Ulises Castellon, who goes by "Misterio", talk about re-organizing the gang in Charlotte. This meeting was held at a home on Rozzelles Ferry Road in northwest Charlotte.

"The way I see things, we have destroyed a lot," "Misterio" tells his buddies. "A lot of homeboys have been deported for DUI. They've locked up a lot of homeboys for drinking or for this or that. Now the point of us is to progress and pick ourselves back up."

"Misterio" then explains MS-13 rules. One major rule has to do with MS-13 taking over Charlotte nightclubs and bars by making all drug dealers pay the gang rent. He tells his fellow gang members what they need to tell other drug dealers in clubs.

"[Tell them] 'You're not going to sell here if you don't pay rent,'" he says. "'Every week, this much.' And if they won't [listen to you], then you're going to do something… if not and then if they guy wants to get crazy on you, take something from him."

These undercover videos is what Zolot says his office used to help get guilty pleas or verdicts on 25 of 26 defendants.

During the court case, the jury didn't just listen to meetings. They also saw hundreds of pictures of weapon-toting, tattoo-covered MS-13 members and heard wire-tapped calls of gang leaders ordering murders.

In one wire-tapped phone conversation you hear "Stiler" loud and clear. "I have given them the okay so they can HIT that a**hole boy," he says in Spanish. "If the guys from his gang are against it they better call me and I will send two veterans from my clique who are down there."

His voice then gets increasingly more angry.

"Hit him. Hit him!," he says. "Don't put up with that a**hole boy's s**t. Take him down!... …Get him and without, without any compassion or anything, man. And if not then wait for me to do down with some guys here and I will do the job."

At times in these taped meetings, the guys are on conference calls circled around a cell phone. Zolot says some of those Charlotte calls were run from an inmate locked up in El Salvadorian prison. That inmate is a high-ranking MS-13 leader named Manuel De Jesus Ayala. His nickname is "Chacua".

"They would have meetings where Chacua would call and they'd put him on speakerphone, so that he could talk with all the members of the gang even though he was in a prison in El Salvador," Zolot said . "They smuggle phones in regularly into prison there. He's a head leader of Charlotte's MS-13 gang and he isn't even in Charlotte."

"Chacua" is that 26th defendant not yet prosecuted. He has yet to be extradited to face his case here.

Why were all these tough murderers and dangerous gang members in Charlotte?

Because, Zolot and Rose say, MS-13 saw Charlotte as a great opportunity to grow. These Assistant U.S. Attorney's say MS-13 wanted to be here because Charlotte had a good economy and jobs, a large Latino population to easily prey upon and make it easier to blend well into the community and finally, they saw Charlotte as a gateway to the South with Atlanta and D.C. being easily accessible." [This is why diversity doesn't work]

"The moved here from Guatemala, Hondorus, El Salvador, Mexico, and other big American cities too," says Zolot. "We saw a lot of them moving from Los Angeles, from Washington D.C., from Boston, from New York. All coming to Charlotte. They were coming to get the gang organized and spread their territory. So we are just the next front in the continuing expansion of MS-13 around the country."

http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14353086

 

[Smedley Butler]

April 08, 2011

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04/07/11 - An Unemployed Reader Agrees With Dr Norm Matloff That There's No Tech Labor Shortage

A Worker's Compensation Defense Attorney Says He's NEVER Deposed An Honest Immigrant
Re: Anonymous Attorney's article Diversity Is Strength: It’s Also…Illegals Invoking the Law

From: "Adi" [Email him]

I'm a worker's compensation defense attorney employed by one of the largest firms in the state. In my (admittedly brief) career, I have seen fraud on a scale that would make the most corrupt crook in Bombay blush with shame. And the rewards of such fraud would make that same crook turn green with envy.

Your legal interlocutor, "Anonymous Attorney," has discussed the utter shamelessness with which our friends from south of the border abuse the law. I can aver with all honesty that I have never deposed a single honest "immigrant." Day in and day out, I depose men and women who complain of non-existent aches and pains and demand exotic treatments including psychological counseling. Needless to state, none of them has ever been in the tri-county vicinity of a shrink, but the wonders of liberalism allow them to visit Beverly Hills physicians on the insurer's dime. And of course, the first thing that wise Latinas do, is create an anchor. Or two, just in case; especially since Medi-Cal is footing the bill.

A dirty little secret about this system is the disproportionate involvement of foreigners. Very few involved on the defense side. Most, unlike me, are busy protecting the "rights" of the "injured worker," and making money hand over fist. Foreigners, mostly Hispanic and Middle Easterners, are disproportionately represented as medical "doctors," "attorneys" and "hearing representatives." Each and every one is determined, vampire-like, to drain the Californian of every last drop of blood. And none of them feels a thing, except utter contempt for the White Man, who has made this system possible. And that is the second dirty little secret. Everyone involved, from the "immigrant" to his "attorney" has nothing but contempt for the descendants of the people responsible for turning this land into the "Golden State." The result is ever-escalating costs of business and living along with a growing underclass that arrives here primarily for generous benefits. And the social parasites who build bungalows in Malibu after fleecing insurers and taxpayers.

I cannot understand why White Americans don't take their country back. While there are sufficient White collaborators, I believe, anecdotally, that most Whites are waking up to the situation. They may be subdued by the forces of political correctness but they are neither stupid nor blind. They may not be agitating, but they are voting with their feet.[Whites in state 'below the replacement' level, by Justin Berton, SF Chronicle, Saturday, June 5, 2010]

Which brings me to immigration enforcement. Actual maintenance of the integrity of the border coupled with aggressive local measures (such as Arizona SB 1070) can and will slow down the Hispanicization of the US and will improve our quality of life.

Which is why our political establishment will never do it.

 

[reset]

Parker, 21, was not a Blood and was mistakenly targeted because he had on red sweatshirt.

Hmmmm. Maybe we need to take up a collection of red sweatshirts and donate them to needy niggers....

 

[CSA FD]

MS-13 is responsible for the 2008, rape and murder of my friend Jennifer Lee Hampton. one pled out, the other two are still on the streets or fled back to mexico.

 

[voiceofreason]

VIDEO AT:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=8335640

6 Men convicted in large MS-13 gang case
Tuesday, August 30, 2011


SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- After a five-month trial, jurors returned a verdict on Tuesday in one of the largest gang cases San Francisco's seen in years, convicting six of the seven men accused.

It's been three years since the seven defendants were arrested in a series of federal raids targeting the Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as the MS-13 gang. Now, six out of the seven young men who stood trial in a San Francisco federal courtroom will head to prison on convictions of drug and weapons trafficking, racketeering, and murder.

"The brutality of the gang and its sort of lack of consciousness in terms of who it kills or how it kills or what it kills is clearly something that has law enforcement's attention," said former assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Bornstein.


"When they come over and they can't speak English, they start to hang out with people they can seek identity from, and this was a group," said defense attorney Randy Sue Pollock.

Cavala's defense attorney says this was her most grueling trial ever. The court spent weeks hearing from former gang members who testified for the government in exchange for a plea deal.

"A lot of them were not good witnesses. I mean the one that impacted my client, the judge referred to as a lowlife," said Pollock.

With more than four months of testimony and close to 150 witnesses, this trial wasn't just a challenge for the lawyers, it was tough on the jury. In fact, after the trial was over, several jurors told the lawyers they started having trouble keeping track of everything.

One juror told attorneys, "The witnesses jumped from crime to crime to crime, so our problem when we got in there was where did that testimony come from?" Another tried to keep it straight with sticky notes, but said, "After awhile, my notebook with five little flags turned into a notebook with 50."

U.S. District Judge William Alsup scheduled sentencing for Nov. 30. By then, a second trial for more accused gang members will be underway.

Six were convicted of conspiring to racketeer, or engage in organized crime, and conspiring to commit murders.

Three were also found guilty of carrying out three gang-related murders in San Francisco in 2008.

Erick Lopez was found guilty of gunning down two men on March 29, 2008. Prosecutors said Lopez believed the victims to be members of a rival gang but that they were in fact not gang members.

Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez and Guillermo Herrera were convicted of murdering Armando Estrada, a document dealer who refused to pay an extortion "tax" to the gang, on July 11, 2008.

But Cruz-Ramirez was acquitted of an additional charge of murdering another man on May 31, 2008.

One defendant, Cruz-Zavala, was acquitted of all charges.

The murder convictions carry a mandatory life sentence, and the racketeering conspiracy convictions have a sentence of up to life in prison.

Several defense attorneys said they are considering filing motions for a new trial.

Bay City News contributed to this report.

 

[voiceofreason]

http://www.kwes.com/story/15366567/police-id-man-in-new-albuquerque-cop-shooting

Police ID man in new Albuquerque cop shooting

Posted: Aug 31, 2011 7:11 AM PDT Updated: Aug 31, 2011 7:11 AM PDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The 31-year-old armed robbery suspect shot and killed by Albuquerque police has been identified as Michael Marquez.

Police Chief Ray Schultz said that Marquez, a convicted rapist and member of the MS-13 gang, was shot and killed Tuesday by police after officers surrounded him and tried to get him to surrender for around 15 minutes.

Schultz said Marquez became agitated and began pointing a bag at officers, so a sniper shot him in a field behind houses in a southwest Albuquerque neighborhood. Schultz said officers later found an AK-47 assault rifle in the bag.

Court records show that Marquez had a lengthy criminal record.

The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/rizpAJ ) that around 15 family members of Marquez gathered later at the scene of the shooting, crying and hugging each other.

 

[Tricknologist]

A Tulare man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, the Office of the Tulare County District Attorney reported.

The jury found Sureño gang member Jesus Aleman, 20, guilty as charged on Sept. 16, 2011.

Aleman’s charges include first-degree murder, personal use of a firearm and special circumstances relating to gangs and a drive-by shooting.

Aleman fired a gun from a car he was driving on Oct. 3, 2009 at a group of people standing in a garage, hitting Mireya Rodriguez, a Tulare Union High School sophomore.

Rodriguez was shot once in the stomach, resulting in her death.

Three other Sureño gang members were in the car with Aleman. He was driving around Tulare looking to shoot a rival gang member, according to the DA.

Aleman fled the scene and was arrested the next day.

http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/ar...son-murder?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage

 

[voiceofreason]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01...t-in-newark-schoolyard-killings-set-to-begin/

Trial Of Fifth Defendant In Newark Schoolyard Killings Set To Begin
January 12, 2012 9:49 AM

From left: Victims Terrence Aeriel, Ioefemi Hightower and Dashon Harvey (credit: CBS)

NEWARK, NJ (CBSNewYork/AP) – The trial of the fifth defendant in the Newark schoolyard killings is set to begin today.

Jose Carranza is charged with murder as well as sexually assaulting the only victim to survive the 2007 attack.

Dashon Harvey, Terrance Aeriel and Iofemi Hightower were shot execution-style behind Mount Vernon School weeks before they were to attend Delaware State University.

The three were lined up in front of a wall and each shot in the back of the head after being robbed. The fourth victim survived with gunshot and stab wounds and helped authorities identify two of the suspects.

Six suspects were caught within two weeks of the murders. Prosecutors have said the attack was orchestrated by a leader in the violent MS-13 street gang.

Four other defendants have either been convicted or pleaded guilty in the case.

Opening arguments for Carranza’s trial are begin at 10 a.m.

 

[Smedley Butler]

By Allan Wall on March 24, 2012 at 11:28pm

In 2011, the state of Alabama passed Alabama HB 56, the Hammon-Beason Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act to fight illegal immigration in the state of Alabama. Given the federal government’s longtime impeachment-worthy refusal to do its job, this was a valiant effort and a poll last week showed that Alabama voters overwhelmingly support it.



But of course the usual suspects went ballistic and are still in a state of hysteria. Far-Left pressure groups, the Obama Administration (but I repeat myself), the Mexican government and 15 other Latin American countries took it to court, as did domestic Treason Lobby groups. Additionally, grandstanding clergymen have railed against the law, while activist judges have blocked parts of it. Yet the law itself remains, for now at least.



Leaving no stone unturned, a group of HB 56 opponents has just traveled all the way to South Korea (!) to fight it.



Why go to South Korea to fight an Alabama law?


http://www.vdare.com/

 

[Smedley Butler]

http://www.voanews.com/english/news...-49-Mutilated-Bodies-in-Mexico-151305295.html


The police wear mask's to hide their identity, why ?

Fifty found on main highway to the U.S. border. Border ?

 

[vorlos]

http://news.yahoo.com/official-49-bodies-left-mexico-highway-153421616.html

Official: 49 bodies left on Mexico highway

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appeared to be the latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs.

Mexico's organized crime groups often leave multiple bodies in public places as warnings to their rivals, and authorities said at least a few of the latest victims had tattoos of the Santa Muerte cult popular among drug traffickers.

The bodies of 43 men and six women were found in the town of San Juan on the non-toll highway to the border city of Reynosa about 4 a.m., forcing police and troops to close the highway.

Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene said at a news conference that a banner left at the site bore a message with the Zetas drug cartel claiming responsibility for the massacre.

Domene said the fact the bodies were found with the heads, hands and feet cut off will make identification difficult. The bodies were being taken to Monterrey for DNA tests.

Nuevo Leon state Attorney General Adrian de la Garza said the victims could have been killed as long as two days ago at another location, then transported to San Juan, a town in Cadereyta municipality about 105 miles (175 kilometers) west-southwest of McAllen, Texas, or 75 miles (125 kilometers) southwest of the Roma, Texas, border crossing.

De la Garza said he did not rule out the possibility that the victims were U.S.-bound migrants.

Mexican drug cartels have been waging an increasingly bloody war to control smuggling routes, the local drug market and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States.

 

[voiceofreason]

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/06/rances-ulices-amaya-sentenced-for-sex-trafficking-76569.html

Rances Ulices Amaya sentenced for sex trafficking
June 2, 2012 - 09:06 am

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A leader in the MS-13 street gang was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison for preying on teenage girls and forcing them into prostitution throughout northern Virginia.

Prosecutors say Rances Ulices Amaya, 24, of Springfield was a "shot-caller" in MS-13, a gang with roots in El Salvador. Amaya was born in the U.S. and is a U.S. citizen, but spent much of his childhood in El Salvador.

A federal jury in Alexandria convicted Amaya in February of trafficking girls as young as 14 for sex. Amaya denied the allegations and was defiant throughout the case, extending a middle finger at an FBI agent at his initial appearance and throwing gang signs in open court after the jury reached its verdict.

Court testimony indicated Amaya raped the girls, threatened them and gave them drugs to keep them compliant.

Amaya "told these girls that he owned them and that he would hurt their loved ones if they didn't comply," said Neil H. MacBride, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, whose office prosecuted the case. "They were his sex slaves, and that slavery goes to the heart of the heinous crime of sex trafficking. These girls have traumatic scars that will last a lifetime and Mr. Amaya is justly going to spend the rest of his productive life paying for his crimes."

The 50-year sentence imposed Friday was less than the life term sought by prosecutors but far longer than the term of less than 20 years requested by Amaya's attorney.

Amaya recruited girls as prostitutes from middle schools, high schools and homeless shelters in northern Virginia. The girls were required to have sex with as many as 10 customers a day, who paid $30 to $120, or more for sex acts deemed unusual. Amaya frequently set up shop in motels across the region, especially in the Falls Church area.

Amaya is the fourth MS-13 member convicted of juvenile sex trafficking at the Alexandria courthouse.

 

[voiceofreason]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...-terms-in-san-francisco-family-triple-murder/

Ramos Gets 3 Life Terms In San Francisco Family Triple Murder
June 11, 2012 12:19 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – The man convicted of killing three members of a San Francisco family will be spending the rest of his life behind bars.

25-year-old Edwin Ramos was sentenced Monday to three consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole for the murders of 49-year-old Tony Bologna and his two sons, Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, in the city’s Excelsior District in 2008.

The verdict was delivered shortly before noon Monday.

Just before the sentence was given, Ramos addressed the courtroom, offering his condolences to the Bologna family.

“There’s not a day that goes by that that’s not on my mind,” he said of the shooting. “If I could go back in time and trade places with any of them, I would.”

“No words can express my condolences,” he told the family. Prosecutors alleged during the trial that Ramos is a member of the violent MS-13 gang and shot the family members after mistaking them for rival gang members.