"Latino Prison Gangs"

[bumperjack]

"Nuestra Familia"
The Nuestra Familia was a highly organized para-military group with a written Constitution, secret NF schools, and some reported anti-government elements. Like other prison gangs, they had a 'Blood In, Blood Out' oath. The NF also operated prison gang banks to further its causes. Robert 'Babo' Sosa was allegedly chosen as their General and was later impeached for embezzlement and lack of leadership during the 'Black Bob, Brown Bob War.' In 1982, over 20 members, including Robert 'Black Bob' Vasquez a member of the ruling council, were indicted in Fresno by RICO statute as being involved in a criminally run organization. In 1992, another high-profile RICO trial of the NF leadership was held in San Jose, California. The grand jury indictment in 3,600 pages stated that the gang had continued it's covert activities both inside prison and out on the street.

During the trial inmates watched from their cell windows and attempted to identify and intimidate any potential witnesses. Twenty-one members were charged with committing nearly 100 different criminal acts, including six killings in the San Jose area after several members were paroled in 1990. Gang leaders ordered many of the killings and some named in the case never left their prison and jail cells. Three NF received the 'Death Penalty.

The Nuestra Familia official color is red and they chose the symbol of Roman numeral XIV as their symbol for the fourteenth letter (N). The basic NF recruitment area is in Northern (Norte) California, from Fresno, to the Bay Area, to Sacramento in what is called Nuestra Raza or the Northern Structure. Prospective members must prove themselves worthy to be in the prison gang. They are put on probation and must undergo strict training called the '14 Bonds.' Penalties for not following the gang's code could be extra push-ups or could be death. There has been some evidence that the Nuestra Raza (NR) no longer want to take orders from the NF and they have been increasingly more vocal and violent via the rap music industry.

The following incident happened at Folsom Prison in 1989, 'Two Northern Structure soldiers went to the weight pile area and received two metal shanks (homemade knives) from a black inmate who had concealed them in a newspaper. They waited for yard recall and, as three Sur 13 inmates were about to enter a salleyport known as 'Blood Alley', ambushed the unsuspecting victims and stabbed them repeatedly right underneath the main Central Yard gun officer. They knew the officer's peripheral vision would not let him look straight down.' The two Norteno soldiers had earned a trip to the Security Housing Unit (SHU) and earned themselves a promotion within the Structure.

Last year, three ex-convicts pled guilty to the April 1999 killing of former Nuestra Familia leader Robert 'Brown Bob' Viramontes and another gang member from San Jose who participated in the hit, but botched his part. Two defendants were sentenced to 50 years to life in prison, and the other received a sentence of 25 years to life. A new RICO indictment was just handed down in April 2001 against thirteen members of the NF after 'Operation Black Widow'. The catalyst for the case were several previously unconnected homicides in Sonoma County in Northern California and the NF ordered execution of longtime NF member Michael 'Mikeo' Castillo who was not 'taking care of business'.

Texas Syndicate

The Texas Syndicate (TS) formed at San Quentin and Folsom Prison during the early 1970's. Its nucleus was made up of inmates from Texas who were incarcerated in the California Department of Corrections (CDC). While the TS prison gang was small, they were the most feared on the yard because of their propensity for violence and serious assaults. When the Southern versus Northern California War heated up in all CDC institutions during the 1980's, some TS picked sides and aligned themselves with the North, others aligned with the South. Some were sent back to Texas state institutions or paroled there.

The TS grew rapidly in the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) after the Estelle vs. Ruiz lawsuit that dismantled the state's inmate boss trustee system. Between 1984 and 1985, there were 52 gang related killings, many attributed to the Texas Syndicate. One of the original TS members is currently incarcerated in the CDC's Pelican Bay Facility near the California-Oregon border. He still corresponds to some of the original members in Texas and serves as an advisor, but all official orders for the TS presently come out of Texas. Today, the TS is still a serious security threat and appears to be broken up into three different factions: The Texas Syndicate Originals (Old School), Texas Syndicate United, and the New Breed TS (new School).

Experts concluded the Texas Syndicate has just under 900 validated members, but they compensate with extreme violence. The gang's reach stretches far beyond prison walls. When TS members are released, they are expected to sell drugs and send money back to jail or prison. According to Federal Bureau of Prisons and Texas Department of Criminal Justice, 'they are very organized and will fight the Mexicanemi and the Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos among others.'

Nearly a dozen slayings and attacks occurred on the streets of the Austin, Texas area in the late 1990's. The crimes remained unsolved but were eventually traced back to the state's most feared prison gang: the Texas Syndicate, which was growing into a major drug supplier in Austin. The TS schemed to collect a 10 percent 'tax'' from every known drug dealer in town, even those who didn't sell for the prison gang. An FBI led multi-agency investigation was started dubbed 'Operation Texas Style.' Eventually, prosecutors indicted 22 Texas Syndicate members, including a TS shotcaller named Hector Soto, and other members and associates on drug charges. Most of the men, facing overwhelming evidence caught on tape, pleaded guilty in federal court. They were sentenced from 10 years to life in prison.

Some police believed the convictions finished the Texas Syndicate, ending its high-profile era of drug dealing, but prison officials still had to deal with the TS inside Texas facilities. It is important to remember that suspected Security Threat Group members are often housed in facilities are found in all custody levels.

In March 2000, prison officials locked down 120,000 Texas Department of Corrections inmates in their cells in an effort to keep two of the largest and most violent prison gangs from waging war inside the system. The lockdown was ordered following the gang-related stabbing death of an inmate at the Coffield Unit near Palestine, Texas.

The gangs involved were the Texas Syndicate and Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos (Brotherhood of Latin Gunmen or HPL). The Pistoleros Latinos reportedly have a confirmed membership of about 380 plus another 360 suspected members, while the much bigger TS had an estimated 840 confirmed members and 1,490 suspected members, associates, or sympathizers.

Officers throughout the TDCJ were on high alert following the murder of Roland Rios, 41, of Corpus Christi, Texas believing the killing was more likely to provoke prison gang warfare more than other inmate stabbings in recent years. Authorities identified Rios' killer as 26-year-old Antonio Lara as a member of the HPL's, who is serving a 15-year sentence for attempted murder, robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Rios, apparently was a member of the Texas Syndicate. Officials expect the TS will retaliate eventually or face further deterioration of it's past violent reputation. The HPL's now have a loose truce with the Mexicanemi in their war with the TS.

Mexicanemi

This group is also known as the 'Texas Mexican Mafia' or 'EMI' is not to be confused with the Mexican Mafia in California. It was started by inmates opposed to the leadership and ideas of the intensely hated Texas Syndicate. The Mexicanemi Constitution which was written by founder and President 'Herb' Huerta states, 'In being with a criminal organization, we will function in any respect or criminal interest for the benefit or advancement of La EME. We will traffic in drugs, contracts of assassinations, prostitution, robbery of high magnitude, and anything we can imagine!' San Antonio is the capital of this gang which and boasts about 1,800 documented members statewide. The Mexicanemi has used different tactics, even tried to use religion as a cover for it's criminal practices under the guise of the 'Mexicanemi Science Temple of Aztlan Inc'. They learned and used the Aztec language Nauatl in their coded correspondences.

Like the Texas Syndicate, the largest source of revenue for the organization was a 'street tax,' or money extorted from drug dealers. Sellers who refused to pay the 10 percent, also known as 'the Dime,' were robbed, beaten and killed by Mafia members. Gang associates also sold heroin, cocaine and marijuana throughout the San Antonio area and other parts of Texas. The shotgun slayings of five people in a San Antonio home in August of 1996 apparently came on the orders of a Mexicanemi shotcaller named Robert 'Beaver' Perez. Nine other killings over the previous three years were also blamed on 16 alleged members of the notorious Texas prison gang in a recent federal racketeering indictment (RICO).

The indictment accused the Mexikanemi of routinely dealing drugs, robbing, extorting and assaulting. The quintuple murders, the worst mass murder in modern San Antonio history, apparently stemmed from an order to rob the house, given out by Perez, a top lieutenant in the organization. The gang was after drugs and a large sum of money it believed was at the residence. The bodies of five people were discovered, all shot in the head execution-style. Later, Perez allegedly ordered Robert 'Robe' Herrera and several other Mexicanemi suspects to execute one of the killers Roberto De Los Santos for talking too freely about the crime. De Los Santos was choked, beaten and run over with a car.

Perez carried out orders from the gang's President Herb Huerta. Officials found out that there was a power struggle within the Texas Mexican Mafia. The infighting followed Huerta's imprisonment, and eventually led to the slaying of Luis 'Blue' Adames in 1994. Perez reportedly ordered six Mafia associates to murder Adames after he challenged Huerta and Perez for leadership of the organization. During the RICO trial members of the group were accused of over 14 murders over a period of three years. The gang remains very active today in Texas and Federal prisons.

There are many other Hispanic prison gangs across the U.S. including the New Mexican Mafia in Arizona, Sindicato Nuevo Mexico, and Netas. There are also many Latino street gangs in custody that have membership even larger than prison gangs, including the Latin Kings, 18th Street, and the Mara Salvatrucha. Corrections staff should be aware of these and other security threat groups and try to avoid 'bean counting' when classifying and placing inmates in facilities and programs. Always remember 'Safety and Security', this will help ensure the smooth running of your facility!

Gabe Morales is a Classification Programs Specialist at the King County Jail in Seattle, WA. He was a former Corrections Officer at Folsom Prison and has juvenile gang intervention experience in both California and Washington. He is the lead Gang I.D. & Management Instructor at the WA State Criminal Justice Training Center-Corrections Academy and the author of 'Varrio Warfare: Violence in the Latino Community'.

He can be reached at (206) 296-1278 or at his personal website:
http://www.angelfire.com/biz4/stopvarriowar

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[Samson28]

Hey bumper,

Just because some fat burrito eating shaved head mexicans punked me without having to prove theyw ere worthy of the punking or because they like punking whites a lot and woods even in jails work for them, and they go around bars saying they own this or that and prisons and street corners, doesnt mean they wouldnt be massacred by my people or hunted on the spot. I am a weak minded person whow as tramatised as a kid moving to this culture and told since I was young fighting was bad and all that goes with white America lifestyle. My people arent. The Mexicans would be fuked up there if they brought that attitude with them and went (it fuked me up and I am usually very nervous around women or anyone I havent trained or fought but they arent like this nor was I before coming here):









http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/polish-independence-day

"I Dodged Bullets at a Polish Fascists' Riot Party"

This charming blend of violent, far-right nationalism and football hooliganism came to the rest of the world's attention during Poland's National Independence Day last year, when nationalists fought a huge battle against the police after local and foreign antifa blocked their march route. The clashes were some of the worst Poland had seen in years, with over 200 protesters arrested from both sides, 14 police cars destroyed and two TV broadcast vans burnt out.

This year I travelled to Poland to see if last year was a blip or, like many were saying, the clashes had galvanised the far-right and would encourage a larger turnout for this past Sunday's festivities.

Walking round the corner into the Culture Centre, I was shocked. I knew the nationalist march was going to outnumber the antifa's, but this was absurd. The square and roads surrounding the central metro station were rammed with around 20,000 nationalists, many of whom were football hooligans dressed up in their team colours.

Imagine the calm before that big fight in Football Factory, but actually scary and tense and like something terrible could happen at any moment, plunging the whole scene into a terrifying display of human fists and testosterone-flaunting. It was just like that. The fact that a load of members of the press (including VICE Poland's snapper) were attacked at last year's demo, didn't make me feel much safer, either.

When their march finally started, it was surrounded on both sides by hooligans whose job – it seems – was to harass photographers with complete impunity. At one point, they charged the line of photographers, smashing a number of cameras with hammers, which obviously made everything very uncomfortable for me, a photographer.

Out of nowhere, shit really started to kick off. Hundreds of hooligans had made it to the front of the march and charged down the road attacking photographers, before moving onto the Polski bank, smashing its windows and trying to set fire to the building. The police were quick to respond, but as they moved in they came under a hail of flares and chunks of masonry bigger than Rick Ross's head.

Besides having to dodge the projectiles being hurled by both protesters and police, I also had to evade the group of hooligans who were actively tracking down and attacking photographers in an attempt to stop them from documenting what was going on. This, people, is hands-down the best way to spend a Sunday evening.

The police were still coming under attack and their tactic of soaking up all the bricks surprisingly didn't seem to be working, so they kicked it up a gear by lobbing flash-bang grenades in an attempt to move the hooligans back.

I'd been told earlier that day that the hooligans enjoy a few powdered stimulants before they band together to kick the shit out of police, but coke is pretty expensive in Warsaw (and not exactly conducive to rioting), so they mainly settle for amphetamines. What I forgot about speed is that it has the effect of completely nullifying fear, allowing this guy to nonchalantly saunter past a line of cops, before chucking a rock at their colleagues and calmly wandering back into the throng.

What he forgot is that police have legs, so as he turned, a group of them snuck up behind him – like real men – and viciously beat him to the ground in revenge.

Just in case the noxious, debilitating gas wasn't enough, the cops then opened up into the crowd with their shotguns. Rather mercifully, they decided to use rubber bullets, but rubber bullets are still bullets and fucking hurt when you're hit with one.

The march was followed by a big flatbed truck with a PA system that had been constantly blurting out nationalist songs throughout the rioting, but, by this point, someone had taken the microphone and managed to convince the crowd to calm down. In return, the cops let the march continue – albeit at a snail's pace – before finally arriving at their destination, a statue of the 1920s nationalist leader, Roman Dmowski.

I spoke to one elderly nationalist, Darius, who was angry at the violence. "The police provoked the crowd – they wouldn't let us march. This is their propaganda to make us look bad in the media."

That may or may not have been the case, but regardless of the police's intention, the nationalists had done a pretty good job of making themselves look like violent neanderthals before I could see any evidence of police starting the fight. Not hard, I suppose, when you hold views as archaic as they do. A number of speeches were made before the crowd dispersed, heading home or back to their coaches in the centre of town.

[bumperjack]

Spamson I knew someone did u wrong over here but I believe you grew up here buddy and yes people hate for a reason ,woods are there own car and don't take orders from anyone FYI if you keep on with that polish propaganda Im not fucking with you really dont have the time or energy...

[Samson28]

Sorry about this rant, I am not a hater or racist just a frustrated person. Actually I pinked that guy back yesterday. I was walking by and saw him with his white girlfriend in a car and as I was looking away he said something like "fuuuck. This guy again." Or something so I said, "what did you say? You wanna talk shit?" and we started going at it with words. At one point he said, "come here. come here." But instead of listening or following his words I said, "no you come here, lets do it right here." to get him to get out of the car to fight and even had my hands up ready but he changed his mind and kind of waved his hand down like he wanted to be the bigger man, or trying to play it off. So I started walking away and said forget you then he said, "go back to your country." and I said "fun you." Then later I walked by the same way and he said, "you need to chill out." So I said, "I thought you said something as I walked by." Then he claimed he didn't so I apologized if I got it wrong, but whatever he backed out at the moment when I had my hands up and invited him to get out of the car.

[TheeOriginalMartinez]

Samson turned this site into a joke

I dont know why Alonso didnt ban his ass many moons ago



Samsung
No body gives a rats ass about your soccer holligans

[Samson28]

From the article above:

For roughly 20 years, there's been a steady stream of violence committed by Polish far-right groups against the usual assembly of people who oppose racism and hatred: left-wing activists, the media, the LGBT community, everyone who isn't a total dick, etc, etc. And since 1989, 39 people have been killed in attacks attributed to the far-right, with many thousands more injured.

Those statistics also include other members of far-right groups associated with Poland's infamous football hooliganism scene – a scene that makes British fans look like characters from 500 Days of Summer – where brutally violent neo-Nazis are more than happy to unfurl anti-semitic banners and fight each other in the stands while they aren't hunting down members of the antifa.

Lol, these guys basically make the English seem like choir boys when it comes to street fighting and hooliganism. What's crazy is none of them are really that big and especially fat. Unlike the whoods in cali who rely on being on steroids or lifting weights all the time, these guys rely on just technique, instinct and fighting experience as well as fearlessness. And unlike the mexicans who rely on intimidation in cali and being bigger or having more weight, they try to be as lean and fit as possible. I wonder how they would do against those groups if they had to deal with some really heavy or buff opponents like Americans.