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12 Gang Members and Associates Netted in Weekend Operation
ORLANDO- A 26-year-old member of SUR 13 gang convicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was among 12 Mexican gang members and associates arrested over the weekend in a joint operation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Orange County Sheriff's Office and the City of Apopka Police Department.

FEDERAL INDICTMENT UNSEALED AGAINST EIGHTEEN MEMBERS OF SUR-13 STREET GANG IN ATLANTA

Emanuel AVILA-Villasana
Jose Luis TAPIA-Rumualdo
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Border Patrol Agent James Epling died in performing his duties along the Mexican border, apparently drowning in the Colorado River in pursuit of several illegal aliens and was last seen along the shoreline as he followed the foreigners. He was the seventh Border officer to die in the line of duty in Yuma. Agent Epling was just 24 and was the father of three, going on four. His father-in-law is a retired Border Patrol agent from the McAllen, Texas, sector.
    Just before disappearing, Epling had pulled a Chinese woman illegal alien out of the river. Three other Chinese were taken into custody the night of the disappearance, along with one Mexican believed to be the smuggler. Although there has been no evidence of foul play actually found, the smuggler can be charged in the death.

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Mexican and Colombian Drug Trafficking Organizations are Responsible for Most Wholesale-level Drug Money Laundering in the United States.

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Adriana Sanchez is a desired target for identity thieves because of her Latino name. The young woman had already passed a credit history check in order to get hired as a Los Angeles police officer, so she was surpised to find that someone in Atlanta had stolen her identity and had rung up $70,000 in debt. Sanchez, who works as a public information officer for the LAPD, felt a personal affront as well as ripped off, remarking, "You feel like you're being violated. . . . She even had my mom's address."
    Investigators familiar with identity theft have noticed that thieves look for similar names to rip off. The LAPD officer's ID was stolen by someone named Adriana Sanchez-Palacios, who was charged in September for fraud and identity theft because the crime victim in this case knew exactly what to do.
    The problem of identity theft has gotten so bad that some companies are offering identity theft insurance.

Victim
David Lazarus is a familiar name to the readers of the San Francisco Chronicle business pages, and the reporter appears occasionally on television news shows like This Week in Northern California on the local PBS affiliate. As a successful middle class professional, he probably never thought he would become the victim of an illegal alien, but that assumption would have been very wrong indeed. Mr. Lazarus recounts his experience of identity theft by a Jamaican national Derrick Davis, who used Lazarus' social security number to get nine credit cards and several jobs. Lazarus called his troubles a "royal pain," one that "has made my own life miserable." But David Lazarus is lucky because his own reporting skills helped him investigate the case, unlike most of the nearly 700,000 Americans hit by identity theft every year. While Lazarus has the pleasure of seeing the perp behind bars, many victims have to work for years to get their lives straightened out, if they ever do.

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ICE apprehends more than 2,100 criminal aliens, gang members, fugitives and other immigration violators in nationwide interior enforcement operation - 06/14/06

Franklin Ademir Rodriguez
Member of the MS-13 gang. Lengthy criminal history in Massachusetts including convictions for uttering false checks. Arrested with five other MS-13 gang members after they assaulted and paralyzed a 13 year-old boy, stabbing him in the spine with a stick. Taken into ICE custody, June 6, 2006, at his place of employment at Budget Rental Car at Logan Airport, East Boston, MA

Jose Garcia Rios
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08/16/1985—Burglary
08/21/1985—Trespassing
09/08/1985—Larceny $20-$200
11/03/1985—Larceny Over $200
04/10/1991—DWI
03/07/1992—Aggravated Assault with Vehicle
09/02/1994Manufacture/Delivery/
Selling/Possession of Controlled Substance
09/20/1994—Aggravated Robbery
10/25/1994—Possession of Marijuana Less than 2 oz
09/06/1995—Unauthorized Use of Vehicle
11/15/1998—Theft of Services Over $200
06/12/2002—Theft of Property Over $1500
03/31/2003—Terroristic Threat
03/31/2003—Criminal Mischief
03/31/2003—Evading Arrest/Detention
05/03/2003—DWI

Wilbert Kuk
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18th Street gang member. ▪ Convicted for robbery, abduction, use of a firearm and malicious wounding.

Angel Geraldo Lira-Alvarez
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Member of the "East Side Homeboys" in Dallas, Texas. ▪ Convicted of manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance. ▪ Convicted of theft. ▪ Outstanding warrant of arrest for parole violation.

Angel Geraldo Lira-Alvarez
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Member of the "East Side Homeboys" in Dallas, Texas. ▪ Convicted of manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance. ▪ Convicted of theft. ▪ Outstanding warrant of arrest for parole violation.

Carlos Medrano
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Sexual Assault of a Child

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ICE arrests 179 in largest ever local operation targeting illegal alien fugitives and immigration violators
LAS VEGAS - In a major six-day operation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from three states fanned out across Clark County, arresting a total of 179 immigration violators, many of whom have outstanding orders of deportation. As a result of the enforcement effort, which concluded yesterday, more than 130 of the aliens taken into custody have already been removed from the United States.

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ICE ARRESTS 375 GANG MEMBERS & ASSOCIATES IN TWO-WEEK ENFORCEMENT ACTION

WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a two-week enforcement action that culminated yesterday, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 375 gang members and associates in 23 states in a joint effort with law enforcement agencies nationwide.

 
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A Murderer, 4 Rapists Among 71 Deported by ICE
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and removal officers deported to Mexico yesterday 71 illegal aliens, including a convicted murderer and four rapists. The five convicted criminals were among 71 illegal aliens deported to Mexico and seven others transferred to Oakdale, La., for upcoming removal to Guatemala and El Salvador. One Salvadoran is a documented member of the violent MS-13 gang. Of the 71 transported to the U.S.-Mexico border, 31 had criminal convictions for such crimes as: forgery, drug offenses, theft, escape from custody, drunken driving, aiding an accomplice, criminal sexual conduct and murder.

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The story of gang-banger Simio, told in the book True Tales from Another Mexico, is instructive to those who wonder about the Mexican gangsters on American streets and how they came to get here. He made the common immigrant pilgrimage from Michoacan to the United States, but Simio did not come here to work, but to rob. Upon arriving in a nondescript Los Angeles suburb, his reaction was, "I saw there were all kinds of chances to steal." He also discovered crack while in the US, which was a good fit with his chosen profession of thief. His normal routine was to rob two houses during the day and one at night which fed his thousand-dollar-a-day drug habit. He returned to Mexico after three months in juvenile detention with exhortations for the homeboys to get more serious about their gangstering. "I woke those boys up," Simio reported. "They were all asleep. They didn't have the urge to rob. They weren't stealing anything." In time, some of those young men would make the journey to America, already trained in thievery, drug use and gang behavior.

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ICE ARRESTS 582 VIOLENT GANG MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES IN TWO-WEEK NATIONWIDE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and Marcy Forman, Director of Investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), today announced the arrest of 582 street gang members and associates during a two-week, nationwide enforcement action under the auspices of “Operation Community Shield,” ICE’s ongoing national anti-gang initiative.

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ICE-LED, MULTI-AGENCY GANG CRACKDOWN LEADS TO ARREST OF 24 MEMBERS & ASSOCIATES OF MS-13 IN SEATTLE AREA
SEATTLE – A total of 24 members and associates of the violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang were arrested here last week on a range of criminal and administrative charges in a coordinated multi-agency enforcement operation. Among the 20 foreign nationals and four United States citizens taken into custody was Yoni Gonzales, a known MS-13 gang leader in the Seattle area.

ICE arrests 125 alien fugitives and immigration violators in Midwest operation
46 of those arrested have criminal convictions

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Dionicio Alvarez-Godino, 54, a citizen of Mexico

Juan Velasquez-Saldana, 65, a citizen of Mexico

Enrique Pacheco-Hernandez, 41, a citizen of Mexico

Alejando Torres-Rubio, also known as Samuel Rubio-Galvan, 27, a citizen of Mexico

Victim
Compared with many on this page who suffered violent crime, Barbara Vidlak got off easy with just identity theft. Still, you wouldn't want her problems. The rip-off of her Social Security number by an illegal immigrant has caused Barbara's phone to be turned off, loss of health insurance for her two kids as well as extra money out of pocket from the 34-year-old Omaha resident for credit checks and other expenses, such as lost time at work. She also had to act as a detective to track down the culprit who has filled her life with turmoil and stress. The reporting on this crime is notable for its relentless sympathy for the perpetrator, even when the damage to the victim is obvious for all to see. Rather than note how illegal immigration is not a victimless crime, reporter Cindy Gonzalez quotes an "immigrant rights" advocate who says that "In some ways, both women are victims."

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Colorado resident Nancy Law is a victim of identity theft because an illegal alien stole her Social Security number. She is shown with the paperwork necessary to clear up the fraud and get straight with the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies. Nancy began receiving notices from the IRS requesting payment of taxes for those jobs she was doing, like the gig in the Denver tortilla factory. In truth, Nancy Law works as a fifth-grade teacher and has never worked making tortillas, and the notice that she owed taxes was a frightening introduction to the underground world of fraudulent documents among illegal aliens.
    Immigration reform legislation in 1986 required that employers determine that a job applicant be a citizen. As a result, document fraud has skyrocketed, even though fraudulent use of a fake Social Security number is a felony and can bring a prison term of five years.