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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455131/posts
Crackdown nets 103 members of Honduran gang known as MS-13 ~~
KRON4 ^ | August 1, 2005 | AP
Posted on 08/01/2005 7:48:39 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON Federal agents have dealt a serious blow to the violent Honduran street gang known as M-S-13.Using information from local and state law enforcement agencies, federal agents charged 103 members with a range of criminal and immigration counts.
The arrests came in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Newark, Miami and Dallas metropolitan areas over the last several weeks.
The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which headed up the operation, calls M-S-13 one of the largest and most violent street gangs in the U-S with the majority of its members in the country illegally.
The gang has carried out beheadings and grenade attacks in Central America and here in this country is known to hack its enemies with machetes in cities along the East Coast.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/08/01/build/nation/77-mexico-explosions.inc
"Explosions kill 4; injure nearly 30 in western Mexico"
By LUIS CARLOS SAINZ
Associated Press
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TONALA, Mexico -- Two assailants lobbed grenades into a crowded cockfighting ring before dawn Monday in this western Mexican city, killing four people and wounding 25 others, four critically, state investigators said.
Two people were killed at the scene of the attack and two more died while receiving medical treatment, said Gerardo Octavio Solis, attorney general for Jalisco state. The ring was located at a racetrack in Tonala, located outside Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city.
The explosions tossed chairs and sent onlookers fleeing from the scene, which was strewn with blood. Police and military officials guarded the site midday Monday.
Solis said 25 of the more than 100 people who attended the cockfight were injured. Federal and state authorities were investigating and hunting for two attackers."