What is your opinion on this ICE sting nets 121 gang members 19 guns, brass knuckles, cocaine, crack,marijuana
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/178437.html
IRVING — They’re the most menacing of the menacing in the Metroplex — violent street gang members who murder, sexually assault children and engage in organized crime.
And when a weeklong roundup ended Sunday night, 121 people identified as gang members, including 47 from Fort Worth and 12 from Arlington, were in custody, authorities announced Monday.
The federal and local operation also seized 19 guns, brass knuckles and a switchblade, 3.4 kilograms of cocaine, less than a gram of crack, 1 gram of heroin and 1.1 kilograms of marijuana, officials said at a news conference in Dallas.
“These are not people you want living next door to you,” said John Chakwin Jr., special agent in charge of the Office of Investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dallas.
The roundup was part of a program called Operation Community Shield. ICE is involved, Chakwin said, because past assessments of gang activity have indicated that many members are foreign-born and are in the country illegally, have criminal convictions or are involved in crime along the border.
Of those arrested, 63 were on warrants for criminal offenses and 58 were classified as illegal immigrants, Chakwin said.
Members or associates of 27 gangs were arrested.
The basic strategy of Community Shield has been to disrupt gang activity by arresting and prosecuting gang members and by impeding the flow of money in and out of gangs, officials said.
U.S. Attorney Richard Roper said those arrested would be prosecuted “using every arrow in the quiver” or would be deported.
“Forty-seven arrests — that’s going to have an impact,” Fort Worth Police Chief Ralph Mendoza said.
Operation Community Shield
Initiated in February 2005, Operation Community Shield is a national strategy targeting violent gangs. Originally the focus of operation was the Mara Salvatrucha organization, or MS13. In May 2005, Community Shield was expanded to include all criminal street gangs “that pose a threat to national security and public safety.” Nationwide, since the program’s inception, more than 4,500 people from 532 gangs have been arrested.
I’m sure Sullivan will make sure they get housed with the imprisoned Border Patrol agents.
Mighty proud says this Dallas Texan!
Why did the round up end Sunday? They aren’t done yet.
Hopefully, they will throw tax evasion charges at them. That’s what brought down Al Capone.
They are urban terrorist and should be dealt with by our armed forces….quickly and decisively
This is the reason the US needs to round up all the illigals and send them back to their home lands. I’m sick of the criminal activity. I wish I was President. If they was’nt born here they would’nt be here.
When’s the next raid!
Awesome, I hope they keep up the good work!
This news is very encouraging, these gangs have gotten way bigger than their britches. I hope thay are all deported after serving their jail sentences.
This needs to be done daily in every state, in every community where illegal aliens gather, until they are all imprisoned and/or deported.
Looks like a good start to me…
That is what they are doing in my neck of the woods.
The police with out the ICE being involved have targeted predominantly minority neighborhoods..and found MS 13,
Folk and Vatos Locos gangs..the main purpose was to identify gang members by taking photographes and checking ID’s ….children as young a 8 were involved.
Drugs were being sold behind a church, next to a day care, and teen center.
I think the local police in every community should be doing this.
This had taken place in a small middle class community,
where black and whites live together go to church together..
Those that were involved in the gangs are not citizens.