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  • LA, Anaheim Raids Net 28 Alleged Gang Members

    NBC4.TV, CA
    March 10 2006

    LA, Anaheim Raids Net 28 Alleged Gang Members
    Most Of The Suspects Are Expected To Be Deported

    POSTED: 12:57 pm PST March 10, 2006

    LOS ANGELES -- Raids in Los Angeles and Orange counties netted 28
    suspected foreign-born gang members, most of whom will be deported,
    authorities announced Friday.

    The federal and local operation rounded up nine suspects in Los
    Angeles and 19 in Anaheim, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs
    Enforcement officials.

    Among those arrested in the Los Angeles area was a 40-year-old member
    of the Armenian Power street gang, whose criminal record includes
    past convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse,
    ICE reported.

    Those arrested in Anaheim included a 20-year-old gang member
    convicted of kidnapping for ranson and extortion. All 19 of the
    Anaheim suspects are Mexican nationals.

    Four of the gang members arrested during the Anaheim operation will
    be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for re-entering the
    United States after a deportation, a felony punishable by up to 20
    years in prison.

    Most of the suspects are expected to be deported, officials said.

    "For years, the U.S. Attorney's Office, in conjunction with ICE, has
    worked to take dangerous criminal aliens off the streets," said U.S.
    Attorney Debra Wong Yang. "Those who routinely flout American laws by
    sneaking into the country and then committing crimes that often
    impact members of their own ethnic group deserve to be punished."

    In San Diego County, Operation Community Shield rounded up 41
    suspects, who also are to be deported.

    The two-month enforcement effort that concluded yesterday was part of
    Operation Community Shield, a joint operation involving ICE agents
    and local law enforcement officers.

    Operation Community Shield was launched nationwide in February 2005
    after ICE officials targeted MS-13, one of the largest and most
    violent street gangs in the country, and found that most of the gang
    members were in the country illegally.

    In May 2005, ICE expanded the operation to include all criminal
    street gangs and prison gangs with foreign-born members, ICE
    officials said.

    The nationwide operation so far has netted 2,388 suspected street
    gang members and associates, and the seizure of about 117 guns, the
    federal agency reported.
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