TV show to focus on Denver gang life
by Kirk Mitchell (Denver Post)
March 5, 2010
Hector “Pelon” Huerta’s whole body is a warning sign, intricately etched in prison ink.
Clown demons, a menacing skull on top of his head, a prison watchtower and his gang name emblazoned in 3-inch-tall letters across his belly reflect his personality and declare his loyalty.
“This is my whole life. I’ve got all my emotions here,” Huerta said proudly Thursday pointing at his bared chest in a high- security segregated cellblock in the Denver County Jail.
And now he is going to be a star — in a cautionary tale.
Huerta is among numerous gang members in jail who will talk about their lives when a new History Channel segment called “Gangland: Mile High Killers” airs tonight at 7.
Huerta, 29, who first joined a gang at 9 and wears dark glasses to shield an eye he said was injured by a bullet, currently faces misdemeanor drug charges. But he has prior arrests for assault, domestic violence, theft and drugs.
“We got to protect our turf,” Huerta said. “If someone runs up on me, I will retaliate.”
“Gangland” will focus on gang members and the Denver Sheriff Department’s gang- intelligence unit. The unit’s investigators include Sgt. Philip Swift, who wrote “Cradle to Grave,” a resource book about gang activities inside jails.
Swift said he wouldn’t participate in a TV series that glorified gangs. But, he said, the “Gangland” series shows the downside of the life.
“The ‘Gangland’ series shows the destruction to families and to society as a whole,” he said.
This year’s series focuses on smaller, homegrown gangs such as those proliferating in the Denver area, he said.
Street gangs in Denver deal drugs and use violence to protect turf or punish enemies just like larger national street gangs, including the Bloods and the Crips, Swift said.
But Denver’s gangs are smaller, more loyal subsets of the larger gangs. “Soldiers” here rise faster to become shot callers or leaders and are entrusted with larger quantities of street drugs, he said. The gangs often reflect the personalities of charismatic and often-violent leaders.
Elias Diggins, chief of the county jail at 10500 E. Smith Road, said the gang unit tracks rival gang members to ensure they are not placed together in order to prevent violence or even murder. The unit listens to prison phone conversations and corresponds with police and federal agents to help build criminal cases, he said.
There are so many gang members who need protection that the jail is running out of segregation cells, he said. Swift said there are about 150 segregation cells, used also to house mentally ill inmates and dangerous offenders. The total jail population is more than 1,800.
“Those concerns are real and credible,” Diggins said. “The gang intelligence officers are the life’s blood of our operations.”
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f you leva. Sewer rats don’t run ish in denver. we r are own men here.
they ish all over ur lawn nd F#@K ur mom all day
f U RATZ U KNOW NORTE RUNZ DIZ DATZ Y WE TOOK DA $POT!!
IT$ ALL ABOUT THE NORTH ZIDE
PUTOS f ALL RATZ
WE RUN THE MILE HIGH CITY
NORTH SIDE FOR LIFE NUZ
F#@K u hotto nd suck ur daddy’s .P
f you Ni66ah it all about the BIG BAD NORTH SIDE NSM RUNS DENVER chick. f RATS
what about them tre tre gangter crips
none yall runnin ish in denver. the most you fs run is the block u sit on. i dont see no set in denver taking ish over
You are all internet thugs.
Nobody cares about you or your smart clika.
Get an education, get some sks, get a job.
if ur gonna be a thug go outside and join ur clik at a sausage fest
We ran this ish when you all were in diapers.. f all yo scraps, you all need to take you rats back to mexico..Nsm gave Denver thier name.. NSM Is an all chicano gang.. We run the streets… You can hit me up at 1-88-NORTHSIDE…And another thing Cisco aint no Northsider he was a westsider.. and back in the day he was holding my nuts while I was calling the shots.. I started Northside and its all bout us nutty..
yea foo u likd that didnt u
Park hill Bloodz all day west side CMG
f u guero
THE REAL MILE HIGH G.K.I KNIGHTS INSANE GANG
WHY THEY SHOW NSM THE G.K.I NATION HAS WAY MORE STRIPS IN PRISON AND ON THE OUTS
suck ass lollipop sucker
ALL THE NUTTYZ NEED TO REALIZE VEGGIES VK THOSE R OUR ENEMIES YA f A SCRAP THEM Ni66ahS AINT ish N DAT GANGLAND THAT ish WAS WEAK THEY DINT TALK TO NO REAL GORILLAZ CUZ REAL RILLAZ DONT TALK N WHO EVER GAVE UP ALL THOSE PICTURES OF THE NUTTYZ JUST TO B ON T.V WHOS LIL RILLAZ R WEAK YOUS AINT PUTTIN N WORK VK ALL DAY FREE BIRDY,STEVY, NUTCASE.TO ALL MY RILLAZ CHORE,MARC-DOG, MOYIT0,THOSE R SOME REAL GORILLAZ!!!!! R.I.P IVAN,MANEUL,SLUR-DOG,B-CENTE VKVKVKVKVKVVKVKVKVVKVKVKVKVVKVKVKVKVKVVKVKVKVKVKVKVKVVKVKVKVKVKVKVKVVKVKVKVK
f marc dog that fat piece of ish aint no nutty IN FACT,he is a gki posing to be a NSM.HE snitched out his own nutties for some cash and in honor of some gki’s he was tight with.Some lil nsm’s pulled a jack move on some gki members and marc dogg snitched out his hood because he didnt get a cut of the profits.in 1993-94 Moyo,manuel and marcos were reppin west side to the fullest when they lived off 8th and mariposa.then they started claiming nutty and turned in some north sollivers for some west gki members!what a chick!Marc dogg showed NO loyalty to his northern comrades BUT INSTEAD showed his loyalty to the opposing team.This is a message to all the north sollivers rather you be a uta,nsm,vagol,nsc,gnx,or whatever,becareful what you tell your OG’s because your shot callers might turn against you for some other hood.Marc dogg showed loyalty to his cousin mousey dave from the gki gang who ended up snitching on all the g’s anyway.f moyo f marcos and f manuel he was a molester anywayz.The CWD crew needs to terminate marc dog already and quit being scared,after all YOUR OG marcos snitched you guys out anyways for a little bit of change.Go be a fing knight insane with all the west siders marc dog.Ivan lived AND NOBODY DID ish nsm ALWAYS WANTS BEEF WITH GANGS THAT THEY DONT EVEN BEEF WITH.GKI BEEF WITH INCAS they donyt exist.nsm says vogal k but NEVER kED ONE,COME ON NUTTIES RIDE FOR IVAN ALREADY,COME ON G’S QUIT SAYING SKUNK MURDERER BECAUSE INCAS DO NOT EXIST
This is coming from someone related to a gang member. Gang members are smart because they don’t know that the cops question kids that are related to gang members to find out who committed these crimes. My cousin joined a gang in 1988. once the cops found out I was related to a gang member and had friends that lived in other neighborhoods where there were gang members, they kept coming to my house asking about gang members crimes. I even went to school with kids related to gang members who claimed the cops were always questioning them about crimes. I received 27 visits from the police from 1988 to 1995. My cousin was in a gang that wore black and blue. I knew 6 people that lived in gang infested neighborhoods. 4 of them lived in neighborhoods where there were gang members that wore black and 2 of them lived in neighborhoods where there were gang members who wore red. So I asked the police why do you keep coming to my house asking me questions about gang members? They answered and said because we know you’re related to a gang member we know that you have friends who live in gang infested neighborhoods. We investigated your friends to find out if they are related to gang members and we found out that their fathers know your uncle and was in prison with him. We also keep track of everytime a gang members relative witnesses a shooting or a stabbing and gives us statements so we can use this to try to solve our crimes. What is it with gang members thinking they know who rats them out. Alot of them end up in jail because gang members relatives snitch or they tell their friends about the gangs crimes even the names of the gang members involved in the crimes. So their friends call the police and say my friend is related to a gang member he just told me about this crime and who did it. then the cops go and question kids in the neighborhood, and these kids confess to knowing about the crimes, and the cops tell them we need to sign a statement so we can arrest them for their crime. Basically a statement is a paper where you write what you know about the crime and the gang members names, and then you sign your name at the bottom. that is all the proof the cops need to make an arrest.
NORTH SIDE VAGOS GANG 303 F#@K puppy dogs AND pUTA’s!
hey f YOU Poo buhts can suck my d#$k and il give your children aids
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It’s clear there are two principal factors which make possible this absurd daily violence. 1. The Second Amendment, an old law from 1871 which is absurd to keep it in century XXI. The same problem have Islamic when they try to live in actual society according with an old religious code. Laws must be changed when times change. The only difference between safe streets in European Union and USA is this one: in Europe you can’t buy guns. Of course we have crimes here, but it’s very rare somebody live in a crime, because the usual tool used by criminals is a knife. The second factor is more difficult to solve: the low Intelligence Coefficient of gang bangers. They are simply smart, lazy, unable to study or to get a job and work hard every day to earn clean money. This kind of people will always exist even with the best education opportunities, because there are always a bunch of people who think the rest are sillier than them and they think: why to study and work if I can deal with drugs earning fast and easy money? For these people the only solution is the jail for the rest of their lives. The sad thing (for them, not for us) is that most of them use to finish their lives with a shot in the head, bleeding in a dirty alley. Losers. 😉
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tray tray gangster runs denver
hey i run ur mom all night nd i F#@K u in ur sleep dnt sleep to night cause i’ll be there
No puppy dogs put in work in the North side. From what I know NxVAGOS got ish on lock in the NORTH so quit with all the non sense puppy dogs!
f a Punk azz zkrezz!3 You punk ass ratz dont run ish in the joint or on the streetz! Big Bad GK! GanG Runz Denver Colorado! The streets and the joints alike! I know you chick azz scrap, ! Just came home! All you chicks bow down to this B!G BAD W3$T $!D3 GK! GAnG!!! We run Denver PUTO!
Nobody gives a ish about gangs because they are all bunch of lollipop suckers. A bunch of dudes hanging out all the time…seems pretty ___ to me.
Yea tru dat gangs r fin farts who suk ass lollipop and dildos
NsV Los VAGOs North side gang run the Nxtty.Nsm nut sucking puppy dogs are all fake F#@K you changos you chickes are all talk untill you see that big VAGO in your face then you don’t claim ish F#@King Internet fake ass wanksters you are starting some ish you can’t handle mother fers better be what you say or you chickes no the out come F#@King with the best live like the rest F#@K nutty snitching puppy dogs make the nutty look sad with that gangland bullish “9 out of 10 puppy dogs are snitches ” punk ass chickes Vz up puppy dogs down this is NsV VAGOs gang
COME TO THE HOOD NXZ ON THE 44BK vK ALL DAY MHK NXM VKVKVKVKVKVK
more lik los fartgos 4 life
big bad CrimiNal gaNg Nutty $iDe 4 life N$C I dont like all $Krapz187
hey f yall u better watch your back cuz ima fing k you your famliy and your cats and dogs
F#@K puppy dogs this is big NsV LOs VAGOs all you puppy dogs bow down when you see a real NsV VAGO in your face fing punks this is mK all day chickes never even came close to a mother F#@King VAGO mad because your chickes love this VAGO d#$k ! Keep running your mouth and you chickes are going to catch a hot one from my VANNA cilp step up when you see a NxTTY VAGOTE it’s on site
VAGOS
u dnt have nuts so wat u tlkn bout
F#@K ur mom whore nd suk ur dads .P
dontf with the big bad north side NSM chick LET MEET UP chick
First off f a scKrap f a cKrab f a Ns, n f a goofy ass purple wearin walkin round lookin like big ass barneyz n ish GKI! second B104d diz iz NORTHEAST DENVER PARKHILL NEIGHBORHOOD 80207 SO f ALL U SMEXIKANZ ON THE NORTHSIDE DA SOUTHSIDE N DA WESTSIDE N EVEN N AURORA ALL U MUTHAF#@KAZ NEED 2 GO BAcK AKROSS DAT SOUTHERN BORDER N I DNT GET DAT ish BOUT U SMEXIKANZ HOW KOME U GOT MUTHAfAZ BANGIN “SOUTHSIDE” BUT YAL B OUT HERE N DA NORTHEAST?? WHAT DA f? MAINLY MONTBELLO..NEVA HEARD OF A “”NORTHSIDE SOUTHSIDER””? N THEN MY ISSUE WIT U fIN CHAP ASS NUTSUCKERZ IZ Y U BANG “NORTHSIDE” WHEN AT THE END OF THE DAY ALL U MUTHAfAZ KOME 4RM THE SOUTH ANYWAY??? MEXICO IS SOUTH….HMM….f ALL U SMEXIKANZ KANT STAND NONE OF YAL NSM DNT RUN ish N AINT BOUT ish SO PUTTIN YAL ON GANGLAND WAS A PUT DOWN 2 DENVER MAKIN US LOOK BAD N ish. MY LIL HOMIE BEAT UP 2 NSM’Z N DA GILLIAM LIKE 2 DAYZ AGO MY LIL Ni66ah ON PURPLE SHIRT NOW! SO YAL AINT ish. N U SKRAPZ REALLY DNT RUN ish KUZ WHENEVA I ROLL DOWN KOLFAX AND OAKLAND STREET I HIT YALL UP WIT DA HOOD N STRIKE UP DA B YALL DNT DO ish BUT LOOK AWAY!!! LIKE I SAID NORTHEAST DENVER 80207! PARKHILL CRENSHAW MAFIA GANGSTA B104DZ! WE OUT HERE!!
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Bloods are love by few disliked by many respected by all BLATT
f the crabs a punks it all about north side nsm
ayo all thiz enternet gangsta ish iz waqk itz all bout the Big westside denver every one knowz all puppy dogz are snitchz and ish fuqk gangland fuqk lockdown they dont know ish big blood mafia puppy dogz aint ish west em
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