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See. This is the kind of shit i gotta deal with living in this city. As if we don't have enough gang -- now we have IMPORTS from El Salvador :
And you wonder why white folks are moving out by the droves...
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The Salvadoran Mafia: The City's New Terror
TONY CASTRO, Columnist 31.MAR.04
A street gang including trained guerrilla fighters from El Salvador has been linked to 18 homicides in the last two years — and has been terrorizing East Hollywood and Rampart neighborhoods for the past two decades.
The gang known as the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS, is now the target of a renewed Los Angeles law enforcement crackdown, including an injunction similar to one six years ago that proved to be ineffective.
“Residents of the Rampart and East Hollywood have been subjected to fear, threats and senseless violent criminal activity in their neighborhoods for too long,'' said City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, who won the injunction against the gang.
“The killing must stop.”
The gang injunction won by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo would bar gang members from publicly associating with other members, loitering, intimidating community members and collecting extortion money, “rent” or “taxes” from residents and business owners trying to avoid harassment.
But it is effectively the same kind of gang injunction that Mayor Jim Hahn, while city attorney in 1998, secured against the gang — which experts say has become more violent since that time.
According to gang authorities, members of the Mara Salvatrucha, because of ties to El Salvador, have access to sophisticated military weapons.
“There's no denying the ease with which the MS obtain high-powered, fully automatic weapons through their Central American ties,” investigative reporter Kathy Braidhill wrote in a Los Angeles magazine article on gangs.
“This firepower is why the MS are one of the most powerful — and deadly — gangs in Los Angeles.”
According to gang authorities, the Mara Salvatrucha had its origins in civil war-torn El Salvador in the 1980s.
In Los Angeles, gang authorities said, the current gang was formed by refugees that included some who had once belonged to the Salvadoran rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, whose guerrillas were known as “Salvatruchas.”
City Councilman Ed Reyes, whose district includes the MacArthur Park area partly controlled by the gang, called the Mara Salvatrucha “a corporation, essentially, of a bunch of bad guys who have been intimidating that community for many many years.
“Now it’s become an international network,” said Reyes, “and we want to do everything in our power to hit at its roots, which is in our community, but it covers many districts.”
According to authorities the Salvadoran gang’s operations cover four city council districts, from Reyes’ in the MacArthur Park area, into the districts of Councilmen Tom LaBonge and Eric Garcetti in the Rampart and Hollywood areas and westward into Councilman Martin Ludlow’s district.
“They literally rob people just to tell them they’re there and then try to intimidate them,” said Reyes. “They force businesses to pay them money for security. It’s a very harsh organization.”
But Garcetti said the Mara Salvatrucha has been emboldened by law enforcement strikes against other gangs.
“We’ve made some great inroads with certain gangs in our district,” said Garcetti, “and because of that we’ve seen Mara Salvatrucha become even more aggressive in moving into new areas as well as trying to hold onto their old territory with more viciousness.”
According to gang authorities, the Mara Salvatrucha includesmany cliques, including the Coronado Little Cycos, the Mid City Tiny Winos and the Witmer Street Locos.
Their main revenue source, sources report, is selling marijuana, speed, crack and powder cocaine at the park at Normandie and Olympic, Mariposa and 11th, Mariposa and Olympic, San Marino and Mariposa, San Marino and Fedora, 8th Street and Vermont, 8th Street and Berendo.
According to gang authorities, the Salvadoran gang has expanded to numerous other states.
The Mara Salvatrucha is unique, experts say, in that unlike traditional U.S. street gangs, it maintains active ties with members and factions in El Salvador.
Authorities also maintain that the gang is involved in exporting stolen U.S. cars to Latin America, where they are often traded for drugs when dealing with cartels.
According to one report, it is estimated that 80 percent of the cars driven in El Salvador were stolen in the United States.
Mara Salvatrucha gang members have even placed a ‘tax’ on prostitutes and non-gang member drug dealers who are working in their turf, gang experts report.
The new injunction would restrict Mara Salvatrucha members from participating in gang-related activities inside “safety zones” in two areas west of downtown Los Angeles.
The zones, which together encompass the largest geographic area of any of the 20 gang injunctions filed by Delgadillo's office, are patrolled by officers in the LAPD's Rampart, Hollywood, Northeast and Wilshire divisions.
“This injunction, if it’s used right, combined with other things we’re doing in MacArthur Park — the deployment of surveilance cameras and strengthening the number of officers we have out there — should make a real dent,” said Garcetti.”
“We also have DEA agents working in the area undercover because the life blood of the gang is their drug trade, and we’re sick and tired of innocent bystanders getting killed and young people getting drawn into addiction and this injunction should help us take the community back.”
And you wonder why white folks are moving out by the droves...
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The Salvadoran Mafia: The City's New Terror
TONY CASTRO, Columnist 31.MAR.04
A street gang including trained guerrilla fighters from El Salvador has been linked to 18 homicides in the last two years — and has been terrorizing East Hollywood and Rampart neighborhoods for the past two decades.
The gang known as the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS, is now the target of a renewed Los Angeles law enforcement crackdown, including an injunction similar to one six years ago that proved to be ineffective.
“Residents of the Rampart and East Hollywood have been subjected to fear, threats and senseless violent criminal activity in their neighborhoods for too long,'' said City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, who won the injunction against the gang.
“The killing must stop.”
The gang injunction won by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo would bar gang members from publicly associating with other members, loitering, intimidating community members and collecting extortion money, “rent” or “taxes” from residents and business owners trying to avoid harassment.
But it is effectively the same kind of gang injunction that Mayor Jim Hahn, while city attorney in 1998, secured against the gang — which experts say has become more violent since that time.
According to gang authorities, members of the Mara Salvatrucha, because of ties to El Salvador, have access to sophisticated military weapons.
“There's no denying the ease with which the MS obtain high-powered, fully automatic weapons through their Central American ties,” investigative reporter Kathy Braidhill wrote in a Los Angeles magazine article on gangs.
“This firepower is why the MS are one of the most powerful — and deadly — gangs in Los Angeles.”
According to gang authorities, the Mara Salvatrucha had its origins in civil war-torn El Salvador in the 1980s.
In Los Angeles, gang authorities said, the current gang was formed by refugees that included some who had once belonged to the Salvadoran rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, whose guerrillas were known as “Salvatruchas.”
City Councilman Ed Reyes, whose district includes the MacArthur Park area partly controlled by the gang, called the Mara Salvatrucha “a corporation, essentially, of a bunch of bad guys who have been intimidating that community for many many years.
“Now it’s become an international network,” said Reyes, “and we want to do everything in our power to hit at its roots, which is in our community, but it covers many districts.”
According to authorities the Salvadoran gang’s operations cover four city council districts, from Reyes’ in the MacArthur Park area, into the districts of Councilmen Tom LaBonge and Eric Garcetti in the Rampart and Hollywood areas and westward into Councilman Martin Ludlow’s district.
“They literally rob people just to tell them they’re there and then try to intimidate them,” said Reyes. “They force businesses to pay them money for security. It’s a very harsh organization.”
But Garcetti said the Mara Salvatrucha has been emboldened by law enforcement strikes against other gangs.
“We’ve made some great inroads with certain gangs in our district,” said Garcetti, “and because of that we’ve seen Mara Salvatrucha become even more aggressive in moving into new areas as well as trying to hold onto their old territory with more viciousness.”
According to gang authorities, the Mara Salvatrucha includesmany cliques, including the Coronado Little Cycos, the Mid City Tiny Winos and the Witmer Street Locos.
Their main revenue source, sources report, is selling marijuana, speed, crack and powder cocaine at the park at Normandie and Olympic, Mariposa and 11th, Mariposa and Olympic, San Marino and Mariposa, San Marino and Fedora, 8th Street and Vermont, 8th Street and Berendo.
According to gang authorities, the Salvadoran gang has expanded to numerous other states.
The Mara Salvatrucha is unique, experts say, in that unlike traditional U.S. street gangs, it maintains active ties with members and factions in El Salvador.
Authorities also maintain that the gang is involved in exporting stolen U.S. cars to Latin America, where they are often traded for drugs when dealing with cartels.
According to one report, it is estimated that 80 percent of the cars driven in El Salvador were stolen in the United States.
Mara Salvatrucha gang members have even placed a ‘tax’ on prostitutes and non-gang member drug dealers who are working in their turf, gang experts report.
The new injunction would restrict Mara Salvatrucha members from participating in gang-related activities inside “safety zones” in two areas west of downtown Los Angeles.
The zones, which together encompass the largest geographic area of any of the 20 gang injunctions filed by Delgadillo's office, are patrolled by officers in the LAPD's Rampart, Hollywood, Northeast and Wilshire divisions.
“This injunction, if it’s used right, combined with other things we’re doing in MacArthur Park — the deployment of surveilance cameras and strengthening the number of officers we have out there — should make a real dent,” said Garcetti.”
“We also have DEA agents working in the area undercover because the life blood of the gang is their drug trade, and we’re sick and tired of innocent bystanders getting killed and young people getting drawn into addiction and this injunction should help us take the community back.”
