MS-13 gang growing extremely dangerous, FBI says

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http://www.abc6.com/story/19785075/14-members-of-ms-13-gang-arrested-in-joint-operation

14 members of MS-13 gang arrested in Providence
Updated: Oct 10, 2012 10:17 AM PDT

An investigation that's been ongoing for nearly a year and a half comes to a head Wednesday morning in Providence. 14 members of the MS-13 gang were arrested in a raid that started at 4:45 A.M. Providence Police, FBI, ATF, DEA, and ICE all took part in the operation that brought the gang members into custody on state and federal warrants.

MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, are considered to be a violent, well organized gang, responsible for multiple violent crimes within the capital city. The violent activity includes drive-by shootings, drugs, and weapons.

Some of the suspects are being arraigned in Federal Court this afternoon.

 

[Time Captain]

Now imagine The Zionists/gun grabbers. Diane Feinstein, Mike Bloomberg, Carl Levin, Joe Lieberman, Charles Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, Rahm Emmanuel, that are going after the 2nd Amendment want MS-13 fully armed, and the public disarmed. Hold On.............Check the last names, throw in Robert Menendez, Obama, Hilary ad nauseum into that putrid mix

 

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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013...accused-of-running-food-truck-extortion-ring/

LA Gang Members Accused Of Running Food Truck Extortion Ring
March 18, 2013 8:44 PM

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — Prosecutors said 20 members of a Los Angeles gang pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges of running a food truck extortion racket in Hollywood.

Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said 20 MS-13 gang members in five separate cases were arraigned. Five others have not yet been arraigned and their indictments remain under seal.

The grand jury indictments, unsealed Monday, charge the alleged gang members and associates with conspiracy and extortion for shaking down food truck operators during a five-year period that started in 2007.

According to court documents, gang members began approaching owners or their truck operators in July 2007 and demanding $30 to $100 in weekly “rent” money to operate their trucks in Hollywood.

A female food truck employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said the company she worked for was targeted by gang members.

“They said, ‘Give us at least $100 every week or more and we’ll give you protection.’ They also said they’ll come here and eat for free,” she said.

If the gang’s demands weren’t met, the food truck employees were told there would be severe consequences.

“(They said), ‘If you don’t pay us, we’re gonna shoot your truck or we’re gonna kill your employees,’” she said.

The woman told KCAL9’s Louisa Hodge that the owner of the food truck told police about the gang threats and put up security cameras. She said the extra police presence helped.

“The police kind of started circling the area more. These guys came with weapons and one of them was actually saying that he was going to shoot us, but then police just drove by and then the guy ran and they started chasing him,” she said.

The alleged gang members were indicted after a yearlong investigation dubbed “Protecting the Dream” by the Los Angeles Police Department and other agencies, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Among those charged in the indictments with felony counts of “conspiracy to commit a crime” and extortion for having “extorted money or other property…by means of force and threat” are Marlon Juarez, aka Jose, aka Bandit, 27; Jose Parada, aka Temper, 23; David Alfaro, aka Cartoon, 20; Albert Chojolan, aka Moreno, 32; Martha Lara, aka Secury, 63; Gerson Perez, aka Hershey, 32; and Juan Gomez, aka Clumsy, 27; Angel Navarro, aka Little Shady, 18; Edin Juarez aka Trebu, aka Trebol, 25; Francisco Ruiz, aka Fat Boy, 19.

The alleged gang members are scheduled to return to court April 18.

Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is a Los Angeles gang with Salvadoran roots and a violent reputation; federal officials have labeled it a transnational criminal organization.

 

[Ensis]

Now imagine The Zionists/gun grabbers. Diane Feinstein, Mike Bloomberg, Carl Levin, Joe Lieberman, Charles Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, Rahm Emmanuel, that are going after the 2nd Amendment want MS-13 fully armed, and the public disarmed. Hold On.............Check the last names, throw in Robert Menendez, Obama, Hilary ad nauseum into that putrid mix

Hopefully the sheeple will wake up and refuse to turn in their arms and ammo, except maybe a supersonic bullet at a time. Then the MS-13 might turn their arms on ZOG and take some of the heat off of us for a bit--time enough to entrench ourselves.

:Swastika2::white::confed:

 

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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...le-deported-to-el-salvador-on-murder-charges/

Man Living In Sunnyvale Deported To El Salvador On Murder Charges
April 18, 2013 10:19 PM

SUNNYVALE (CBS SF) — An El Salvadoran national who had been living in Sunnyvale was deported Wednesday to his native country where he is wanted in connection with two murders, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

Santos Lopez-Claudio, who also went by Wilber Alfredo Valle-Guerra, 36, was repatriated on a plane and handed over to El Salvadoran National Civilian Police upon landing on Wednesday, ICE officials said.

Valle-Guerra had a warrant out for his arrest in 2007 from El Salvador in connection with two counts of homicide and three counts of attempted homicide.

Salvadoran authorities allege Valle-Guerra was part of three Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang members involved in fatal shootings on Nov. 14, 2006, in Ilobasco, Cabanas in El Salvador that killed a local policeman.

Valle-Guerra also had a warrant issued in 2003 for a firearms violation out of El Salvador.

Valle-Guerra was taken into custody on Nov. 7, 2012, by ICE officials at a home in Sunnyvale.

Since his arrest, an immigration judge in San Francisco in February determined he did not have a legal basis to remain in the U.S.

Valle-Guerra had previously been deported from the U.S. in 2006.

 

[Rasp]

Border Patrol arrest 21 sex offenders and 9 gang members

Border Patrol agents, from the Rio Grande Valley sector, arrested a number of sex offenders and gang members in the month of June.

Agents arrested 18 convicted sex offenders in June and three additional offenders in July, who were illegal in the country, plus 9 gang members.

The majority of the sex offenders had convictions for sexual assault involving children with offenses including : sexual assault of a child; sodomy, kidnapping, lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14; aggravated sexual assault of a child; and aggravated indecent assault and corruption of a minor.

Border agents arrested 8 members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, better known as MS-13, and one member of the 18th Street gang.

“Border Patrol agents have a responsibility to protect this nation from all threats,” Chief Patrol Agent Rosendo Hinojosa said. “Those threats are not always posed by terrorists or drug smugglers; sometimes they take the form of sex offenders and gang members. By keeping these dangerous criminals off our streets, agents are helping to ensure the safety of our children and the security of our communities.”

 

[The Bobster]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...sh-Women-Lure-Police-Abduction-254509711.html

Man Tries to Lure Orthodox Jewish Women in Gang Initiation: Police
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2014 | Updated 10:58 AM EDT

Authorities have accused a New Jersey man of trying to lure Orthodox Jewish women as part of a gang initiation.

Lakewood police have charged 18-year-old Rafael Laurano-Flores with obstruction, resisting arrest, bias intimidation and bias harassment.

Police on Tuesday responded to a report of an attempted abduction of a 16-year-old girl and a report of a man trying to follow a woman and her teenage daughter.

Detective Sgt. Greg Staffordsmith tells the Asbury Park Press Laurano-Flores was trying to touch and knock down women from the Orthodox Jewish community as part of an initiation for the MS-13 gang.

Laurano-Flores is held on $18,000 bail. It's not known if he has a lawyer.

 

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2016/08/06/woman-sexually-assaulted-in-southampton-home-invasion/

Woman sexually assaulted in Southampton home invasion
By Kenneth Garger
August 6, 2016 | 9:55am

A Southampton woman was roused from her sleep and sexually assaulted by a suspected gang member who broke into her home Friday morning, officials said.

Marvin Saul Siciliano-Nunez, 20, trespassed at about 8 a.m. onto the property on Little Plains Road, a hedgerow-lined street that runs from downtown Southampton to the ocean.

Nunez grabbed and looted jewelry, a cellphone and a skateboard from the property’s pool house, said cops.

He then made his way into the main house, where he encountered the 19-year-old victim asleep in bed, police said.

Siciniano-Nunez allegedly choked and sexually assaulted the woman and threatened more harm if she didn’t cooperate.

Cops were called to the home by 8:05 a.m.

They soon spotted the suspect walking along Meeting House Lane, near the crime scene.

Sicinano-Nunez led cops on a brief foot pursuit before he was cuffed.

He was charged with burglary, sexual abuse, criminal sex act and criminal obstruction of breathing, police said Saturday.

Authorities believe he’s a member of the MS-13 gang. He was busted in May on charges of gang assault.

 

[Rasp]

Wetback with MS-13 ties, accused of killing 18-year-old, deported twice

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (ABC7) — A man with ties to the MS-13 gang and accused of killing an 18-year-old was deported twice before the killing, sources tell us.

In June, Cristian Villagran-Morales was killed after being lured to a park to have sex with a woman. Once in the woods, Villagran-Morales was ambushed and stabbed more than forty times.

"This was a vicious attack with knives and premeditated. He was lured for the purpose of killing him,” Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy remarked.

On Wednesday, Montgomery County Police caught the alleged murder ring-leader, Oscar Delgado-Perez, 28, at the Red Roof Inn motel along Shady Grove Road in Rockville. The once bald Delgardo-Perez had changed his look, growing hair on his head and face.

During the arrest, Delgado-Perez said he was MS-13, and just about to skip town, but decided to get drunk the morning officers caught him.

"He has clearly been deported before, we have that documentation,” McCarthy remarked about the El-Salvadorian native.

Federal sources say MS-13 was responsible for 22 murders in the DC-Capital Region in 2015.

"They must be made to serve their time, the idea that you can take someone accused of a serious crime, allow them to basically agree voluntarily to leave the country, does not stop them from coming back again,”

Illegal immigrant deported twice charged with stabbing teen 40 times

 

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http://nypost.com/2017/03/02/illegal-immigants-from-ms-13-gang-arrested-for-teens-murders/

Illegal immigrants from MS-13 gang arrested for teens’ murders
By Shawn Cohen, Emily Saul and Bruce Golding
March 2, 2017 | 7:40pm | Updated

Nisa Mickens (left) and Kayla Cuevas
Suffolk County Police


Ten illegal immigrant members of the notorious MS-13 gang — including one who was previously deported — were indicted Thursday in a wave of Long Island violence that included the slaughter of two teenage girls.

Best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, were beaten with baseball bats and hacked with a machete during an attack that began when gang members spotted them walking together in Brentwood.

Nisa’s mom, Elizabeth Alvarado, said she was “very pissed off” to learn the 2016 murder allegedly was committed by illegal immigrants.

“They’re evil. They’re coming over the border, then coming back after they get kicked out,” she said.

“Things should change. It shouldn’t take my daughter’s death.”

The federal indictment also accuses MS-13 members of killing one of their own by stabbing and slashing Jose Pena, 18, for violating their rules — but only after consulting with “gang leadership” in El Salvador, authorities said.

“The brutal murders of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, and the savage killing of Jose Pena, allegedly committed by these defendants, exemplify the depravity of a gang whose primary mission is murder,” Brooklyn US Attorney Robert Capers said.

Then-President-elect Donald Trump blasted Long Island’s M-13 scourge in an interview for his Time magazine “Person of the Year” profile last year.

“They come from Central America. They’re tougher than any people you’ve ever met,” Trump said.

“They’re killing and raping everybody out there. They’re illegal. And they are finished.”

The illegal immigrants indicted Thursday are all from El Salvador or Honduras, and are among 13 people charged with crimes including racketeering and multiple counts of conspiracy to murder.

The defendants — who face up to life in the slammer or the death penalty — include Edwin Antonio “Strong” Amaya-Sanchez, 29, who the feds say is a leader of an MS-13 chapter in El Salvador known as Guanacos Locos Criminales Salvatruchas.

Amaya-Sanchez was deported to El Salvador on March 22, 2010, but had sneaked back into the United States by July 14, 2014, when he allegedly murdered Jose Lainez-Murcia, with whom he had worked at a landscaping company in Kings Park.

Lainez-Murcia was ambushed and shot outside his home “because he was deemed to be ‘chavala,’ or enemy of the MS-13” after bragging that he had assassinated gang members in El Salvador, the feds say.

Amaya-Sanchez was busted when the FBI’s Long Island Gang Task Force spotted him near the landscaping business the following year.

Nisa and Kayla were attacked on the evening of Sept. 13, 2016, following several disputes over social media between Kayla and various MS-13 members and associates, court papers say.

That animosity boiled over into a fight at Brentwood High School, leading the gang to “put a ‘greenlight’ on Cuevas; that is they authorized her to be killed,” according to the feds.

 

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http://nypost.com/2017/03/03/gang-members-charged-with-killing-woman-in-satanic-ritual/

Gang members charged with killing woman in Satanic ritual
By Amanda Woods
March 3, 2017 | 1:10pm | Updated

Miguel Angel Alvarez-Flores and Diego Alexander Hernandez-Rivera
Houston Police Department


Two illegal immigrant members of the ruthless MS-13 gang were arrested in Texas this week and charged with killing a woman as part of a Satanic ritual, according to reports.

The El Salvadoran suspects, Diego Rivera and Miguel Alvarez-Flores, allegedly killed a woman they were holding hostage in an apartment when she spoke out against the group’s devil worship, ABC 13 reported.

After the woman, known only as “Genesis,” made the comments, Alvarez-Flores — the group’s ringleader — attempted to give a lit cigarette to a Satanic statue as an offering.

But he said Satan wasn’t having the offering, telling his fellow gangbangers that “the Beast” wanted a soul instead, the station reported.

A photo released by the Houston Police Department of the unidentified woman known only as “Genesis”
Houston Police Department


He and Rivera then brought Genesis to the side of a road, where Alvarez-Flores, whose nickname is “Diabolical,” allegedly handed his accomplice a gun, officials said.

Rivera shot Genesis once in the head on the side of the road before Alvarez-Flores blasted her in the chest, the station reported.

Cops found the body Feb. 16 but are still struggling to positively identify her.

Another 14-year-old girl claimed she ran away from school late last month and met the duo at an apartment in southwest Houston, according to court documents cited by ABC 13.

She stayed there for four days and claimed another man known as “Flaco” sexually assaulted her there, according to the station.

She was then taken to the apartment where Genesis was being held, and remained there against her will for 14 days. Her captors — six members of the gang — force-fed her drugs and alcohol, and at one point, Alvarez-Flores tattooed an image of the Grim Reaper from her knee down to her foot, the station reported.

Alvarez-Flores and Rivera — who are in the country illegally, according to KHOU — were arrested during a SWAT raid Monday.

They were taken to the Harris County Jail, where they are being held on $150,000 bond, according to ABC 13.

An immigration hold on both suspects will keep them from getting out of jail, according to KHOU.

Meanwhile, 10 members of the same gang — also illegal immigrants — were indicted Thursday in a wave of Long Island violence that included the slaughter of two teenage girls.

Best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, were beaten with baseball bats and hacked with a machete during an attack that began when gang members spotted them walking together in Brentwood.

The illegal immigrants indicted in the case are all from El Salvador or Honduras, and are among 13 people charged with crimes including racketeering and multiple counts of conspiracy to murder.

One of them was deported to El Salvador back in 2010 and sneaked back into the US by July 14, 2014, when he allegedly murdered Jose Lainez-Murcia, with whom he had worked at a landscaping company in Kings Park.

 

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Four Males Found Dead In Park In Central Islip, NY

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/04/13/central-ilsip-park-4-dead/


Four Found Dead In Park In Central Islip
April 13, 2017 8:44 AM

CENTRAL ISLIP (CBSNewYork) — A homicide investigation is underway after four males were found dead inside a Central Islip park.

The bodies were discovered sometime on Wednesday inside Recreation Village Town Park. Investigators have not divulged the ages or identities of the four people, describing the victims only as all male.

“The victims suffered significant trauma throughout their bodies and police investigators believe that the homicides occurred recently,” Suffolk County Assistant Police Commissioner Justin Meyers said.

 

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2017/04/13/bodies-of-four-badly-beaten-men-found-in-long-island-park/

Bodies of four badly beaten men found in Long Island park
By Daniel Prendergast and Kevin Sheehan
April 13, 2017 | 8:51am | Updated

Four men were found beaten to death in a Long Island park, murdered, some victim’s family members believe, by the MS-13 gang.

The men’s badly beaten bodies were discovered inside Recreation Village Town Park in Central Islip sometime Wednesday, police said.

“The victims suffered significant trauma throughout their bodies and investigators believe that the homicides happened recently,” Suffolk County Assistant Police Commissioner Justin Meyers said, according to CBS 2.

William Tiger, who was at the park Thursday morning, said his 18-year-old brother was among the dead.

“Tuesday night, my brother George left home and he never came back,” Tiger, 21, said. “He was with two friends who are also missing. One was a member of MS-13.”

Tiger said he believes MS-13 — which has a stronghold in Suffolk County — is responsible for his brother’s death.

“He called me, the friend in MS-13, he called me last night at 6:30 and told me my brother is here,” Tiger said.

He also said another one of George’s friends called him after he, "escaped from the car. He said he saw my brother being killed. He told me my brother was here. He gave me this address [to the park].”

The motive for the murders is unknown at this time. No arrests have been made, Suffolk County police said.

The location where the bodies were found is not far from the park in Brentwood where two 16-year-old girls were found dead under similar circumstances last September.

Ten illegal immigrants with ties to the murderous MS-13 gang were arrested last month and charged with those killings.

 

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http://nypost.com/2017/04/26/new-police-taskforce-to-crackdown-on-bloodthirsty-ms-13-gang/

Cuomo announces major crackdown on bloodthirsty MS-13 gang
By Kirstan Conley
April 26, 2017 | 7:12pm | Updated

ALBANY – A new State Police gang taskforce will target MS-13 on Long Island, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced two days before U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions is set to visit violence-plagued Central Islip.

“There is a current scourge that is going on across the country, going on across the world,” Cuomo said. “We have it in other parts of the state but nowhere like on Long Island.”

“They are a network that has created horrendous crimes,” he continued. “Their currency is fear and intimidation and they are getting more outrageous and more obnoxious in their activities.”

Sessions will target gangs in a speech on Long Island on Friday, a week after the Trump administration announced that it has set sights on the crime network that has spread through the United States.

Cuomo stopped in Brentwood on Wednesday afternoon to say New York has no tolerance for MS-13.

“Sometimes the issues we deal with are nuanced and subtle,” he said. “Sometimes the truth is in the gray. That is not true in this situation. MS-13 are thugs.”

The group preys on young people, recruiting unaccompanied children from Central America, seducing them into a life of gang violence, Cuomo said.

“They involve themselves in robbery, prostitution, drugs, grand larceny, kidnapping,” he said. “Their calling card is fear and intimidation and they prey on the working families of Brentwood and Central Islip.”

A contingent of 25 law enforcement officers from the State Police will bring intelligence expertise, state of the art electronic surveillance equipment, vehicles, aviation equipment, and more to fight gang violence in the state.

The effort, which involves local and federal authorities, as well, will specifically target MS-13 on Long Island, Cuomo said.

“We will not rest until MS-13 is put out of business because we have zero tolerance in this state for the thuggery that MS-13 has made their calling card,” he said.

 

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2017/04/28/sessions-to-ms-13-gang-we-are-coming-after-you/

Sessions to MS-13 gang: ‘We are coming after you’
By Emily Saul and Lia Eustachewich
April 28, 2017 | 11:41am | Updated

Jeff Sessions
AP


Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited Long Island Friday morning to deliver a stern warning to the violent MS-13 gang that’s ravaged the area in recent years: “We are coming after you.”

The nation’s top prosecutor spoke to a crowd of law enforcement agents, politicians and press at the federal courthouse in Central Islip in remarks that touched upon President Trump’s immigration reform and how the government plans to “devastate” gangs like MS-13.

“The MS-13 mantra is kill rape and control, and so that should tell us enough about the kind of groups we confront,” Sessions said. “Our motto is justice for victims and consequences for criminals.

“We are targeting you. We are coming after you,” he said, addressing the vicious El Salvadorian gang.

MS-13 has claimed 11 lives in Suffolk County since September, Newsday reported.

Earlier this month, the badly beaten bodies of four men believed to have been killed by MS-13 gangbangers were discovered in Central Islip.

The gang was also responsible for beating and hacking to death two friends, Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, last September in Brentwood.

Sessions pledged to send more resources to “high-crime areas” – and said Department of Justice officials will travel to El Salvador to “try to make arrests to locate this at the source.”

He also noted that Trump was personally aware of the MS-13-related murders on Long Island.

Sessions’ tough-talk on MS-13 dovetailed with his comments regarding Trump’s immigration policy. Many gang members, including those with MS-13, have arrived in the US by illegally crossing the border.

“This exclusive network [MS-13] smuggles gang members across the border and the gangs know if they come as unaccompanied minors, the country will transport them wherever they want to go,” Sessions said. “This is how we are, and gang members know this is how it works, and we will handle it. Criminals who are convicted will be deported.”

He added: “We cannot allow this to continue. We will secure our border, expand immigration enforcement and choke off supply lines. We’ve got to dismantle these human-smuggling networks that have been effective in bringing people into this country illegally.”

The attorney general was greeted Friday morning by a crowd of more than 50 anti-Trump protestors bearing signs that read “Build bridges, not walls” and “Immigrants & refugees are welcome. Sessions? NOPE.”

Congressman Peter King, a Republican who represents parts of Nassau and Suffolk counties, blasted the protestors.

“It’s shameful. The fact that AG Sessions agreed to come here shows the full strength of the federal government is behind this effort,” King railed, adding that the protestors should be “on their knees thanking the AG.”

After delivering his remarks, Sessions was expected to meet privately with law enforcement officials, victims of crime and federal judges at the Central Islip courthouse.

Robert Mickens and Elizabeth Alvarado, the parents of Nisa, one of the MS-13 murder victims, were among those scheduled to meet with Sessions.

“The mission is to keep us safe, to make sure everyone is safe,” Alvarado said. “This is going to hurt but I’m hoping [Sessions] will step up.”

Alvarado said crackdown of MS-13 was “100 percent important.”

On Wednesday, Gov. Cuomo visited Brentwood to announce that a new State Police gang task force would crack down on MS-13, with a specific focus on Long Island.

 

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http://nypost.com/2017/05/07/man-stabbed-and-robbed-by-trio-yelling-ms-13-cops/

Man stabbed and robbed by trio yelling ‘MS-13’: cops
By Amanda Woods
May 7, 2017 | 10:18am

90th Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Queens where an alleged MS-13 stabbing took place
Ellis Kaplan


A 45-year-old man told cops he was stabbed and robbed in Queens by a trio of men who shouted the name of the notorious MS-13 gang, police sources said Sunday.

The victim was leaving a check cashing spot at 90th Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights around 7 p.m. Saturday when the three attackers approached him and yelled “MS-13” before stabbing him once in the back and robbing him of $600, the sources said.

The trio took off, and the victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, according to the sources.

Cops believe MS-13 is behind the brutal beating and slaying of four young men in Recreation Village Town Park in Central Islip, Long Island last month.

Ten illegal immigrant members of the notorious gang — including one who was previously deported — were indicted in March in a wave of violence that included the slaughter of two teenage girls, Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, in September. That attack occurred in Brentwood, Long Island.

 

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http://nypost.com/2017/05/07/sheriff-blames-obama-for-wave-of-ms-13-gang-violence/

Sheriff blames Obama for wave of MS-13 gang violence
By Emily Saul
May 7, 2017 | 3:47pm

Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco took to the airwaves Sunday to bash President Obama’s immigration policies — blaming him for the recent rash of murders linked to MS-13 gang activities across Long island — while lauding U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recent visit to address local law enforcement on the same topic.

“In the community of Brentwood, where there is a big El Salvadoran population, we have had over the last nine months or so 11 bodies turned [sic] up,” Sheriff DeMarco told John Catsimatidis during an early morning interview on “The Cats Roundtable.”

The victims, many of whom were high schoolers, were allegedly targeted by MS-13 for refusing to join the gang or for defecting from its ranks.

“A large portion of the MS-13 gang members are here illegally,” DeMarco added. “And they arrive in the country through the Unaccompanied Minor Program, which was really loosened up and formed under President Obama.”

But DeMarco said he had faith in the new Trump administration’s approach, citing Session’s recent visit to Central Islip to discuss the ongoing, gang-related violence.

Sessions “came out and he wanted to hear from us,” the Sheriff crowed. “He was not telling us what he thought. He wanted to know what we needed and what we thought he could help us with.”

“The MS-13 mantra is kill rape and control, and so that should tell us enough about the kind of groups we confront,” Sessions told press and law enforcement during his visit to Long Island. “Our motto is justice for victims and consequences for criminals.

“We are targeting you. We are coming after you,” he said, addressing the vicious gang, which has ties to El Salvador and Honduras.

DeMarco, who met with Sessions, said he and the AG discussed a “need for federal gang prosecutors.”

“I totally support the President’s objective of border security,” the Sheriff added, echoing statements made by Sessions on April 28.

“This exclusive network [MS-13] smuggles gang members across the border and the gangs know if they come as unaccompanied minors, the country will transport them wherever they want to go,” Sessions said. “This is how we are, and gang members know this is how it works, and we will handle it. Criminals who are convicted will be deported.

The badly maimed bodies of four men suspected to have been slaughtered by MS-13 gangbangers were found in Central Islip in April.

The gang is also believed responsible for the brutal slaying of two friends, Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, last fall in Brentwood.

 

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http://nypost.com/2017/05/07/state-senate-will-vote-on-bill-to-crack-down-on-gangs/

State Senate will vote on bill to crack down on gangs
By Carl Campanile
May 7, 2017 | 10:30pm

The Republican-led state Senate is taking aim at MS-13 and the other gangs of New York.

Lawmakers are poised to pass legislation Monday to create an anti-gang curriculum in schools as well as boost criminal penalties for gang-related crimes.

The push for the Criminal Street Gang Enforcement and Prevention Act comes amid a wave of gang violence that has menaced suburban communities on Long Island as well as urban areas.

The El Salvordoran gang MS-13 is linked to 11 killings in Suffolk County over the past year.

In the city, the NYPD and prosecutors have been chasing gang bangers responsible for violent crime sprees and drug peddling, particularly in housing projects.

“Gangs are responsible for 30 percent of violent crimes in New York. That is a huge number,” said Sen. Martin Golden (R-Brooklyn), author of the bill and a former city cop.

“This is not just an urban problem. The gang problem affects all regions of the state. I don’t know a legislator who hasn’t gone to a funeral for someone who has died from a drug overdose. Who is responsible for the drug scourge? The gangs,” he said.

For the first time, the legislation legally defines criminal street gangs in New York’s penal statutes, giving prosecutors more options when charging gangbangers. Penalties are increased for gang-related crimes and new felonies are created for individuals who participate or benefit from gang activity and recruit youth or adults to join gangs.

The measure will easily pass the Senate, which has OK’d similar proposals in prior years, only to see them die in the Democratic-run Assembly. But the new bill includes measures to discourage people from joining gangs in the first place, making it more palatable for Assembly liberals.

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Gov. Cuomo both recently visited Long Island, vowing a crackdown on gangs such as MS-13.

 

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http://nypost.com/2017/05/08/state-senate-passes-anti-gang-bill-aimed-at-blocking-recruits/

State Senate’s ‘anti-gang’ bill shot down by Heastie
By Carl Campanile and Kirstan Conley
May 8, 2017 | 5:50pm | Updated

The Republican-led state Senate, for the fourth consecutive session, passed legislation to crack down on violent gangs — but Democratic Assembly Spooker Carl Heastie shot it down.

The bill comes amid a wave of violence by the MS-13 gang, which has menaced suburban Long Island and other areas.

The bill passed 48-13 — with all the no votes coming from New York City Democrats.

But it hasn’t even come up for a vote in Heastie’s Assembly.

The measure would increase sentences for gang-related felonies and create new felonies for individuals who participate or benefit from gang activity or recruit others to join gangs.

Heastie insisted longer prison sentences are not the answer.

“We support anti-gang initiatives. However, increased penalties are not necessarily a deterrent,” he said. “A better approach is to discourage people from engaging in gang activity in the first place, and that is where the focus should be.”

In fact, the bill offers anti-gang initiatives at the front end.

A new Criminal Street Gang Prevention Fund would be established to support a gang violence prevention curriculum in schools, for example.

The Assembly has blocked every previous attempt by the Senate to toughen the law against gangs, but brutal murders by MS-13 could change the equation, said the Assembly sponsor of the bill.

“The MS-13 problem does make a difference. We need to do something about gang violence,” said Assemblyman Joseph Lentol (D-Brooklyn).

During the Senate floor debate, critics said the proposal was too broad in defining a gang member and they worried that minorities would be unfairly targeted.

One of the “no” votes was cast by Sen. José Peralta (D-Queens), even though MS-13 members stabbed a man leaving a check-cashing business in his district on Saturday.

Sen. Martin Golden (R-Brooklyn), author of the bill, dismissed criticism of it by pointing out that a defendant would have to be charged with three gang-related crimes within three years to be prosecuted as a gang banger.

A spokesman for Gov. Cuomo said he would consider signing gang-related legislation if it reaches his desk.

 

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2017/05/10/alleged-ms-13-gang-members-nabbed-for-attempted-murder/

Alleged MS-13 gang members nabbed for attempted murder
By Emily Saul
May 10, 2017 | 5:29pm

Three members of the notorious MS-13 gang were nabbed Wednesday for the attempted murder of a Queens man​ that left him a paraplegic​, fed​eral officials​s said.

Jose “Flaco” Gonzalez, Kevin “Stomper” Paniagua and Francisco Ramos allegedly shot the victim​ ​in the h​​ead, ​believing him, to be a rival gang member​. The Jamaica, Queens ​shooting took place ​on Oct. 23.

Gonzalez, Paniagua and another MS-13 member viciously beat the victim before Paniagua allegedly pulled out a gun and put a bullet ​in ​his head. The 18-year-old then tried to shoot the victim again, feds said, but his gun jammed.

The unnamed man, who the trio believed to be part of the MS-13’s chief rival crew, the 18th Street Gang, is now a paraplegic.

“As alleged in the complaint, the defendants were members and an associate of MS-13, an international gang known for its culture of murder,” said Acting United States Attorney Rohde. “They sought to spread fear throughout the community by attempting to kill an individual suspected to be a rival gang member.”

The three men were awaiting arraignment Wednesday at Brooklyn federal court.

“The MS-13 mantra is kill rape and control, and so that should tell us enough about the kind of groups we confront,” US Attorney General Jeff Sessions told press and law enforcement during his recent visit to Long Island. “Our motto is justice for victims and consequences for criminals.

“We are targeting you. We are coming after you,” he said, addressing the vicious gang, which has ties to El Salvador and Honduras.

MS-13 is believed responsible for 11 murders over the past seven months across Long Island.