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.

Monday, February 11, 2008

A 57-year-old woman held in Barrio Azteca case

By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 02/08/2008 12:00:00 AM MST

A 57-year-old woman is the latest person arrested in an ongoing federal racketeering crackdown targeting the Barrio Azteca gang, FBI officials in El Paso said Thursday.

Sandy Valles New, who is accused of being an associate of the prison-based gang, was arrested Wednesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Paso del Norte Bridge, FBI spokes woman Special Agent Andrea Simmons said. More arrests are expected.

The FBI listed New as being from El Paso, but an El Paso County Jail log shows her having an address in Juárez.

New, who is also known as "Guera" (blonde) and "Cuñada" (sister-in-law), faces racketeering charges, which are part of an 11-count federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization, or RICO, indictment issued by a federal grand jury last month, Simmons said.

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