Posted on 05/23/2009 10:54:08 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
HAWAIIAN GARDENS - Almost 1,400 law enforcement officials converged on Hawaiian Gardens in a series of pre-dawn raids Thursday as part of the largest federal indictment against a street gang in United States history.
Varrio Hawaiian Gardens, Hawaiian Gardens' oldest and most notorious gang, waged a racist campaign to eliminate black people from the community via attempted murders and other crimes, according to the federal racketeering indictments that werei unsealed Thursday.
A total of five indictments charged 147 members and associates of the gang, and federal, state and local law enforcement officials had arrested 88 people as of Thursday morning, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said.
Included in that plot was the murder of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Ortiz, who was shot in the head in June of 2005 by a VHG member while Ortiz was investigating the attempted murder of a black man in the city, O'Brien said.
It was the cowardly slaughter of Ortiz - a newlywed and father of two sons - that prompted investigators from the LA County Sheriff's Department to the FBI to launch the nearly four-year investigation into the gang, which culminated in Thursday's indictments and a wave of arrests, dubbed "Operation Knockout," O'Brien said.
"Operation Knockout has put a serious dent in this violent criminal enterprise," said Assistant Los Angeles County Sheriff Paul Tanaka.
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Thank You
Line the busses up and start deporting all illegals. They are breaking America.
Some are, these would be a mixture of Caucasian and American Indian, probably more of the latter and less of the former in most, but far from all, cases.
The Terry Anderson Show...
Terrys guest tonight will be Jamiel Shaw Sr....
His son 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr. was murdered by an illegal alien gang member who had attacked a policeman but still been released from jail 24 hours earlier. Jamiels Mom was serving our country in Iraq at the time..
If this doesnt make you mad and upset, nothing about the threat of AMNESTY and 30,000,000 illegal aliens, running around with carte blanche, in our country, ever will..
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“LA will soon become like Tijuana unless something doesnt change in how we deal with the drug trade”
Southern California is lost. Everywhere you go there is an ever increasing presence of Latinos that speak spanish. This can only lead one to believe that they or their parents entered this country illegally. The corruption and crime wave that will follow in these heavily laden Latino towns will closely resemble Mexico.
This is start, but remember this 88 of what is reported to be 1,000,000 gang members in the US.
Agreed, just one of the reasons I left after 40 years plus and moved to Vegas.
Sad to say, it's not much better here for pretty much the same reasons
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