News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Members of Mexican Mafia convicted on racketeering counts

UNION-TRIBUNE

5:05 p.m. January 4, 2008

After a trial that lasted two months, a federal jury in San Diego Friday convicted seven members of the notorious Mexican Mafia prison gang on racketeering charges.

The verdict capped a lengthy investigation by federal and state police agencies in San Diego. The probe targeted Hispanic street gangs that have ties to the Mexican Mafia.

This was the first time that federal prosecutors in San Diego used the federal anti-racketeering act against a street gang. At the trial they alleged that the defendants engaged in numerous racketeering acts including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, drug sales and money laundering.

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