Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) Intelligence Assessment

Open Intelligence Review suggests that do to reprisals by peasants in rural Guatemala and Black Shadow death squads and Central American Prison Deaths in El Salvador. A recent raid on MS-13 members in San Francisco with other cities possibly coming up.

MS-13 May be developing news strategies:

They have been very popular in the US and a wide range of talent from marginal to very effective, but they currently have a comparatively decentralized gang culture.

Therefore, MS-13 may be trying to reorganize in the following ways:

• Evaluate their US talent
• Merging less promising cliques into other groups with better established drug retail connections
• Move their more talented leaders into less street-visible Major drug Wholesalers.
• This would protect their contacts in expensive and hard-to-set-up transit networks from exposure to rival DTOs

Intelligence Questions to answer:

• Have they may have established a new source of drugs, possibly through Venezuela, or Nicaragua which would cause them to leverage their Central American - US Transit networks?
• Are they there other signs that they are trying to compete with the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels?
• Are there signs of efforts to develop more sophisticated operational, intelligence and communication efforts
• Which MS-13 members are traveling from which cities?
• How has their crime pattern changed?
• Are they establishing more sophisticated human trafficking network logistical assets?

Interim conclusion

• MS-13 is restructuring

Possible final Conclusions

• MS-13 is simply trying to consolidate and organize recent growth in their numbers in the US, and address attriion in Central America
• MS-13 is trying to move up the wholesale chain as a DTO
• MS-13 is trying to Model themselves after more sophisticated multifacited international criminal organizations kie la cosa nostra and are making changes at all levels

-Federico Garcia-Ochoa

Mara Salvatrucha MS-13

In the early 1980s a civil war erupted in El Salvador killing as estimated 100,000 people. In addition, it is estimated between one and two million people have immigrated to the United States as a result of the unstable environment in El Salvador.

The first large population of El Salvadorian refuges settled in the Rampart area of Los Angeles. This influx of immigrants looking for low cost housing and employment was not readily welcomed by the Mexican-American population who were already residing in that area. The area was already plagued with gangs and crime.

These immigrant Salvadorian youth and young adults were soon were victimized by local gangs. A group of Salvadorian immigrants created a new gang calling themselves Mara Salvatrucha also known as MS-13. It is believed they got their name from combining the name of “La Mara”, a violent street gang in El Salvador with Salvatruchas, a term used to denote members of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. This was a group of Salvadorian peasants trained as guerilla fighters. The “13” was added to pay homage to the California prison gang, the Mexican Mafia.

Members of this newly formed gang soon engaged in violent criminal acts. They quickly became known as one of the most violent gangs in the area because many of their founding members had experience or training in guerilla warfare, thus gaining a level of sophistication that superseded their rivals.

Various members of the newly formed MS-13 were soon arrested and deported back to El Salvador. All deportees were first housed in the Guezaltepeque Prison, in Northern El Salvador. Quickly and unexpectedly, Mara Salvatrucha flourished in the prison system and recruitment began on the streets in El Salvador, while the gang continued to grow in the United States as well.

With little direction and opportunities, many Central American youth admired the Mara Salvatrucha deportees and wanted to learn more about their gang. One deportee reported that upon returning to his hometown, there were only he and two other MS-13 gang members. His said that the interest in MS-13 was so big, that over 40 kids asked to be initiated (which consists of a beating for 13 seconds) into the gang on one day alone.

The gang soon became the largest gang in El Salvador and soon spread to the Honduras and Guatemala. Their rivals, although much smaller in number, are known as 18th Street or MS-18, another American born gang.

Mara Salvatrucha has become Central America’s greatest problem. In addition to violent acts committed by the gang against citizens and gang rivalries, the gang has even engaged in organized violent acts against the government. In 1997 the son of Honduras President Ricardo Maduro was kidnapped and murdered by MS-13 members. MS-13 members have continued to taunt Central American government officials. Members also left a dismembered corpse with a note for the Honduras president that “more people will die… the next victims will be police and journalists.” In 2004, Guatemalan President Oscar Berger received a similar messages attached to the body of a dismembered man from MS-13 members.

In 2002 in the city of Tegucigalpa in the Honduras, MS-13 members boarded a public bus and immediately executed 28 people including 7 small children. Again, they left a message written on the front of the bus taunting government officials.

Honduras was the first Central American country to adopt strict anti-gang laws. As a result of MS-13, government officials enacted a law that makes it illegal to be an associate of a crime, in other words, if someone looked like a gang member, they were subject to arrest. El Salvador adopted a similar law calling it Mano Dura or Firm Hand. In 2004, El Salvador implemented Super Mano Dura, to strengthen elements of their existing laws. A suspect in violation of these laws could find themselves facing a 12-year prison sentence even if no crime had been committed.

Having a gang tattoo was evidence enough.

Of the new laws, former Honduran police commissioner, Maria Luisa Borjas, said, “They grab three or four young people wandering around and present them as suspects… blaming them for every single crime without justification.”

After an increase in crime, Mexico began a campaign in 2004 to eradicate MS-13 when they arrested 300 members calling them a “threat to National security.”

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Garland Raw Intelligence (a bit old?)

texas mann ( Author)said this on 05 Jun 2008 3:20:52 AM EST

Garland, TX comes with mainly two strong gang groups different click names but gangs operate by sides of there town the main areas for gang activity is east garland

• Tre 5 seven crips or the eastside homeboiz the mexican version of 357 / they operate as one unit.
• Southside of garland operating mainly off of the nickens rd. area
• (A-1) bloodz this gang recently took control of the drug trade in this neighborhood after the D.E.A broke up a gang called the southside 76erz through 1997-2002 which was a mixed race folk gang.
• The eastside gang wears mainly dark blue and black if they do wear red its with a bandaid over the color.
• The southside gang mainly wears black, green and more loud colors ex.orange,white,yellow but they will always have red somewhere through there clothing if not just a bandanna.
• There are also large hispanic gangs which are believed to be the suppliers of the cities drugs (brown-pride,east side homeboiz)

Very heavily mixed racial city the gangs are mainly of black and hispanic people but do have caucasion and even asian members.

The gangs mostly operate around through low level drug deals although the D.E.A has made serious drug busts throughout the south and east sides of the city.

Definate years of drug busts south garland major bust 1995, east garland 2001. The gangs have been involved in murders but are more widely known for fist fighting with gangs from other cities:

• Commerce, tx ,
• Balch springs
• West Dallas.

Sorry for my careless typing I am not that interested in this issue and I will not devote much of my time everything I typed is correct and accurate for the city of Garland, TX

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Dallas Gangs Raw Intellgince

• ESH
• NDV
• SUR,
• BPx13
• VNS
• DND
• BS
• CS

Walnut Hill Web chapell

• but da 5 point on park lane(mostly eastsiders and surenos)
  jdarryll at 10 Oct 2008 10:55:56 PM EST
  
  sur 13 is da fakest gang around, specially on carrolton and north dallas.
• Afro-American gangs in Dallas,TX. Dallas-style gangs will confuse you, if you don't know anything about gangs. Since Dallas is a "hub city", major gang influences come from other states, especially California and Chicago.

If you encounter someone who has been "bangin' " for quite some time, you would swear they were for somewhere else. For example,

East Dallas Projects (Frazier Courts) represent one of the N. California area codes, 415, refer to themselves as bloods(which they started saying in 1992) and uses Chicago's Vice Lords grafitti.

East Dallas' rival, Dixon, follows the style of Los Angeles Crip Gang, 357 Shotgun Crips, and uses Chicago's Ganster Diciples grafitti ti identify themselves. I'm not saying that these gangs don't have people who are really "bangin" but there is nothing original about them.

In the 80's, Dallas gangs was represent by which H. S. you attended. Some of those gangs that represented where the Oak Cliff Rambos, Tha' Posse, R.N.'s, Tha Yo Dogs, Tha Oakland Boys, ....

Today, Dallas isn't really "bangin" but they are trying to represent their "hoods" through rap music. The majority of former gang bangers want to be know as "playas & hustles" and have placed the "bangin" aside.

Due to artist like Lil Wayne, some Dallas youngster wanna claim some type of blood gang. I believe they are doing so because Wayne is the hottest thing going, in the rap game.

If the youngsters would do some homework, the would know that Lil' Wayne became a blood after spending time with Mac 10, a well- known and respected rap artist, from Inglewood, CA.

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christina at 10 Dec 2008 1:39:43 AM EST
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constancefayth@live.com ?

only serious inquiries please and thanks for your help.

Dallas has gang violence and there is alot in north dallas.

Main gang neighborhoods in north dallas are

• lovefield 23,
• Maple Kings,
• Webb Chappel Crips
• Varrio North Side,

But the gang that has the strongest click I would say is the Lovefield gang they have the beef with all the gangs up there but i think they have over 300 members

Here are some gangs that I know of from Dallas and it's surrounding areas,including Arlington,Irving,and Ft.Worth...

• Kingsly Warriors
• Hispanic Connection
• Black Knight Crips
• East Side Locos
• Sur13,
• Latin Kings/Queens
• Nation(People)
• Led Better Unicos,
• Led Better Twelve LB XII(black rags):don't know if these are two different cliques of the same gang "Led Better" or separate from each other all together,
• Varrio North Side13,
• River Side13
• Varrio Carnales 13 (supposedly purple raggers,but don't know if they where Sureños or just plain trecero claimers:those that claim the 13 for some other reason and not for Sur13)
• Latin Knights and Latin Ladies Grand Lebow Street(Ft.Worth)
• Las Midnight Chucas LMC (Ft.Worth)
• Varrio Centro/Sur Centro Funky Town(black,blue,white colors)(Ft.Worth)
• Varrio South Side13
• VSS

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Kallas of ICE Indicted

ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas And His wife, Maria Kallas, Charged In Scheme To Take Bribes

Dec 31st, 2008

A federal grand jury returned a 75-count first superseding indictment, on October 29, 2008, charging Constantine Peter Kallas, an Assistant Chief Counsel with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and his wife, Maria Kallas with bribery, money laundering, federal worker’s compensation fraud, and other federal charges in connection with accepting payments to adjust the immigration status of aliens, announced Thomas O’Brien, the United States Attorney in Los Angeles.

ICE Assistant Chief Counsel, Constantine Peter Kallas, 38, and his wife, Maria Kallas, 40, both of Alta Loma, were arrested on June 26th, 2008 by special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ICE - Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, on suspicion of conspiracy, bribery, making false statements and making a false statement in an immigration application.

• They were arrested at the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino in Highland, where they allegedly accepted a bribe payment from an immigrant seeking documentation to remain in the United States.
• The couple was indicted on July 9, 2008, for violation of Title 18, Section 201(b)(2), Bribery, and Section 2, aiding and abetting. The subjects’ property and assets were subsequently seized.
• Following the couple’s arrest, agents from the FBI, ICE-OPR and IRS-CI executed a search warrant at the couple’s home. According to the search warrant affidavit, the Kallases received thousands of dollars from illegal aliens and legal permanent residents (”green card” holders) in exchange for immigration benefits.
• The affidavit states that the couple used two companies they had set up - Botno Inc. and Mississippi Valley Consulting Inc. - to file employment petitions with the Department of Labor and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
• Kallas has been with ICE since June 1998, but he has been on unpaid leave since January 2007.
  “The charges in this case are the result of a long-term internal investigation by ICE-OPR, the FBI, the IRS and the Department of Labor,” said Paul Layman, associate special agent in charge for the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility in Los Angeles.

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Montague county Jail is Compromised andJ Closes - (Rumer)

Texas jail closes after recliners found in cellsBy ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer Angela K. Brown, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jan 3, 7:39 am ET

FORT WORTH, Texas – A jail in northern Texas has been closed and its nearly 60 inmates transferred as authorities investigate what they call dangerous conditions for jailers and those behind bars — including cells that locked from the inside or contained recliners.

Five inmates had already been moved from the Montague County jail to one in a nearby county this month after an FBI raid, said Jack McGaughey, district attorney for Montague, Clay and Archer counties.McGaughey declined to say what prompted the investigation, also being conducted by the Texas Rangers. But he said authorities found contraband in the jail.

New Sheriff Paul Cunningham moved the inmates to the Wise County jail on Thursday a few hours after he was sworn in.McGaughey said some surveillance cameras' cords had been disconnected; recliners were in cells; some bathrooms and cells could be locked from the inside; and inmates had made partitions out of paper towels to block jailers' views inside their cells. One alarming discovery was a type of rack made of nails, he said."This action was taken because there was a concern for the safety of the prisoners and the jail personnel," McGaughey said Friday.

• Some inmates had apparently used extension cords to lock deputies out
• unidentified pills were strewn about other jail cells

No one has been arrested, but McGaughey plans to present evidence to a grand jury and said "a number of people" — inmates as well as jailers — could be indicted.

The U.S. attorney's office also is working with the FBI and may bring federal charges, McGaughey said.

The FBI in Dallas did not immediately return calls seeking comment Friday.

Cunningham told WFAA-TV that the conditions made him "shiver" but said he hopes the jail will reopen in two months, with repairs made and inmates back under a new set of rules.

The jail in Montague County, about 65 miles northwest of Fort Worth, has had problems in the past.In early 2002, four inmates broke out after overpowering a guard with a homemade knife. The two convicted killers and two murder suspects drove off in the guard's SUV but were caught 10 days later at an Oklahoma convenience store.The Montague County jail had been put on warning about three months before the escape for falling short of the guard-to-inmate ratio. After the breakout officials made a surprise visit and found the jail still out of compliance.

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2008 Top 7 International Organized Crime Entities

1. The Sinaloa Cartel AKA "The Federation;" Whether it's bribing cabinet level officials in Mexican law enforcement, decapitating rivals or shipping meth straight to new york city, there is no doubt that the Sinaloa Cartel is the number one spot in this top ten. In the last two months Sinaloa operatives have been arrested in Peru, Argentina, India & Australia. They mean business.

2. Somalian Pirates: Anytime you get multiple navies summoned to deal with your situation, that's a good year.

3. Lashkar-e-Taiba: The Pakistani anti-Indian Kashmiri paramilitary/advocacy group/terrorist entity swipes the top Arab/Muslim world list from Al Queda for the first time ever with their outrageous Mumbai antics. Could be number one next year in the event of an Indian/Pakistani war.

4. General Laurent Nkunda Militia (Congo): Africa's second entry is renegade Congan general Nkunda. While putatively a member of the army in Congo, he is also a huge thief and a warlord.

5. The Russian State: Theoretically not an organized crime entity, but rather a sovereign goverment, the Russians behave with all the subtlety of a mafia hit man. War over Georgia, check. Forced nationalization of major industries, check.

6. The Mongols: Major LA area bust put them in the headlines in the Western U.S.

7. The Gulf Cartel: Mexcio's OTHER enormous Cartel, locked in a bloody, bloody, bloody battle with Sinaloa cartel.

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