Hispanic gangs taking spotlight in South Bend, Indiana

“Joe Guerrero knows the gang life all too well.

“Growing up in Chicago, I didn’t know anything different,” he said. “I remember cheering when someone I knew got arrested.”

The life Guerrero, 44, was living in Chicago was leading him down a potentially bad path, so he moved to Goshen in 1982 at the age of 21 to escape it.”I came straight out of Chicago,” he said. “I noticed (gangs in Goshen) right away. There were biker gangs, then there were other gangs, but smaller. Later on, though, in the late ’80s, ethnic gangs started to make a strong presence.”"

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