El Programa de Maryland – The Maryland Program – Transforming organized crime in the mid-Atlantic.
“A 34-year-old was lured to woods in suburban Maryland, where assailants armed with knives had already dug his grave. A 22-year-old, also taken into a wooded area, was ordered to his knees and shot in the face. An 18-year-old, ambushed near a stream, was stabbed and stoned as he crawled into the water and died under a bridge of the Capital Beltway.”
“The shocking slayings 18 months ago signaled a resurgence in Montgomery County of the notorious MS-13 gang. Now, with federal racketeering cases underway for three suspects arrested in connection with the killings, court documents lay out a brutal chain of command that law enforcement says drives the violence.”
“Organized in local MS-13 units called “cliques,” the Maryland gangs put prospective members under long periods of “observations” before allowing them in. Ascension in the gang involves at least five rank designations, according to federal court records, with clique leaders using social media and coded words to stay in constant contact with superiors in the United States and El Salvador.”
“It’s not the military, but the local cliques are structured in the sense they have an understanding of whose permission is needed to carry out certain actions of the gang,” said Rod Rosenstein, the top U.S. attorney in Maryland and President Trump’s nominee to become deputy attorney general.”
Daniel Ramos-Romero, Juan Espinal-Rapalo, and Noe Coreas-Mejia are charged in federal court with racketering counts related to killings carried out by the MS-13 gang. (Montgomery County Police)
Behind the rise in seemingly chaotic MS-13 violence: A structured hierarchy.
By Dan Morse
Washington Post |
Update—Now a panel discussion on this moderated by Bret Baier. Evidently this community is in the midst of a drive to become a sanctuary city. One of these pogues is a "Dreamer", collared at the border and then sent to Anywhere, USA to live with a "sponsor".