Street Level Gangs and DTOs May be beginning to use Search Tools to Connect.

There is an emerging web site visit pattern that suggests that street level gangs or DTOs  may be using smart phones and school ISPs to do research on finding and connecting with gangs in other cities.

When this site first went up, visitor traffic was mostly law enforcement, academies and universities doing research, media, various levels of law enforcement and school administration. Though there was some interesting regional level cartel research, street level gang activity seemed to be bragging in chatter in some social media.

in the last 6 months or so, there seems to be some new apparently street level patterns:

• Phones, always used for texting, are now being used for research.
• Some researchers using Public School ISPs are searching in a similar way. 
• Yahoo seems to be used about as much as google
• They seem to be looking for signs, tattoos, and colors that would help them identify gangs
• Frequent misspelling patterns show up in gang related chat rooms. Now similar patterns sometimes appear in search engine queries. This did not happen much in the past.
• Part of the pattern, across the US, is bouncing back and forth between pages frequently
• They sometimes seem to reach out from one city to another.

The most recent example follows: (Note - this comes from a public school ISP not a smart phone)

Someone in Chesterfield County Virginia, Public Schools  looked into Dallas Gangs.

• IP 208.0.239.242  
• 1 Feb 16:51:47 

Did some research into the Four Deuce in South Dallas. They researched their gang colors. They expanded the search looking into  Crips, the 357 Dixon Circles. It is possible this was for a school project, or was done by District level anti gang unit, but the search pattern is similar to emerging smart phone usage.


Here is the Query chain:

• www.google.com — four duece south dallas

1 Feb 16:51:47

• first page read: dfwgangs.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-dallas-sets-and-their-colors.html

• Next  page read: dfwgangs.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-dallas-sets-and-their-colors.html

1 Feb 16:52:25

• Next  page read dfwgangs.blogspot.com/search/label/Dallas/dfwgangs.blogspot.com/search/label/Dallas

1 Feb 16:52:28

• Back to: dfwgangs.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-dallas-sets-and-their-colors.html

dfwgangs.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-dallas-sets-and-their-colors.html

1 Feb 16:52:36

• Next  page read dfwgangs.blogspot.com/search/label/Crips

back to:
dfwgangs.blogspot.com/search/label/Dallas
1 Feb 16:53:06

back to: dfwgangs.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-dallas-sets-and-their-colors.html

dfwgangs.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-dallas-sets-and-their-colors.html
1 Feb 16:53:14

Back to dfwgangs.blogspot.com/search/label/Dallas
www.google.com — four duece south dallas
1 Feb 16:53:15

dfwgangs.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-dallas-sets-and-their-colors.html

New Google Search: www.google.com — 357 dixon circle south dallas#1
1 Feb 16:56:11

Resulting in going back to: dfwgangs.blogspot.com/2009/01/dallas-gangs-raw-intellgince.html


Note that the time delays between page views suggests a manual searcher not a bot, and frequent page flips back and forth.

In Summary, there is an emerging pattern that suggests that street level gangs or DTOs  may be using smart phones to do research on finding and connecting with gangs in other cities.

Erick Turcios-Lazo of MS-13 and Peru Connection

TBDA suggests that an IP Adress in Peru has repeated and systematic interest in Erick Turcios-Lazo of MS-13. This suggests that the following IP address may be associated with MS-13

Someone at 190.236.242.197 in Lima Peru used a high resolution MAC (1280x1024) USING Operating System X on the isp Telefonica Del Peru.

Most recently, at 19th April 2011 10:05:05 Local time, they used an english language google search for the specific name "Erick Turcios-Lazo"

-Federico Gochoa

< >MS-13 leader indicted in plot to kill witness

An illegal immigrant who led a Fairfax County-based MS-13 cell was indicted late last week for allegedly conspiring to murder a federal witness who helped put a former leader of the group behind bars for life in 2006.

According to court records, Erick Turcios-Lazo, also known as “Scorpion,” attended two general MS-13 meetings in January where he and other gang members discussed killing a fellow member they believed to have been a government witness in the 2006 trial of former clique leader Wilfredo Montoya Baires.

Later that month, Fairfax County police learned from an informant that Turcios-Lazo met with gang members and pushed for the “green light” to murder the “snitch” who court records list only as “L.Q.”

In September 2006, L.Q. was seen by gang members at the Alexandria branch of the U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia while she was responding to a subpoena to testify in the Baires trial, records said. The January vote taken by cell members in favor of ending L.Q.’s life never played out. But in 2004, Baires orchestrated the death of another gang member, named Jose Escobar.

Baires was convicted of coercing fellow gang members to kill Escobar, who he claimed was a government informant.

But in fact, witnesses said, Baires was trying to keep Escobar from usurping his power. Escobar’s death was among a string of gang-related homicides that led federal and state authorities to pour resources into Northern Virginia to fight the rising tide of gang activity.

Since then, the murders have fallen dramatically.

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