The Los Angeles Sheriff's OSS Gang Task Force targeting the F-13 gang soon received information that the F-13 gang was enforcing Mexican Mafia orders to tax...
https://www.policemag.com/373686/florence-13-the-other-transnational-gang
Like so many lucky lotto winners, the same fame and financial fortune that helps them escape the ghetto contributes to bringing them down. This is...
https://www.policemag.com/374338/gangsterish-athletes-and-their-entourages
The Mexican Mafia is composed of cell-like cliques united in a coalition under the umbrella name. These cliques or sub-groups are led by informal...
https://www.policemag.com/373919/exploiting-the-mexican-mafias-weaknesses
Even in the murderous world of gangs, the most wicked killings are perpetrated by individuals who seem motivated by some other dark, twisted presence within...
https://www.policemag.com/374231/are-some-gang-members-serial-killers
In a strange way, the iconography ties together much of the evil perpetrated by the gangs that are trafficking in drugs and human beings and their violent...
https://www.policemag.com/373526/patron-saints-of-the-mexican-drug-underworld-part-1-of-2
Autonomous cliques of the Mara Salvatrucha gang communicate internationally through the same social networks we use, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter...
https://www.policemag.com/373783/mara-salvatrucha-a-transnational-gangCrips wear blue rags and Blood or Piru gang members wear red ones. But an expert would know that Compton Lime Street Piru gang members break the mold by...
https://www.policemag.com/372996/exceptions-to-the-gang-rulesThe attack team crossed the “frontera” via a well-used tunnel near Nogales. It split up on the U.S. side, one group traveling by night toward Sky Harbor...
https://www.policemag.com/373063/a-nightmare-scenario
Despite the federal government's politically correct definition of "cross border violence," my experience and intelligence sources tell me that "cross...
https://www.policemag.com/373910/an-epic-fail-in-the-border-war