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November 20, 2009
Police in Peru say gang members killed people to drain their fat for cosmetics
US indicts 19 members of Hispanic street gang – Maryland branch of the “Latin Kings”
November 19, 2009
Puerto Rican, Latino Clergy, Theology Professors, Community Members To Condemn Brutal Hate Killing of Gay Puerto Rican Man
Mexico’s Drug Violence Gives Rise To Vigilantism
The wave of crime besetting Puerto Rico seems to be out of control with 800 murders being committed here so far this year, but the island’s top police official says the problem does not fall exclusively within his department.
Murder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.S. authorities said they were still considering whether to make it a hate crime case. – Puerto Rico
CIS Report Attempts to Erase 100 Years of Data on Immigrants and Crime
November 18, 2009
Organizations alarmed by the increased violence against women and others in Mexico are traveling by caravan to demand justice for the victims. – The national caravan, which began in Mexico City, is part of the international Mujeres de Negro (Women in Black) campaign to protest violence against women, children and other vulnerable groups.
Hundreds of defendants awaiting trial for violent crimes in Dallas County have been deported by federal immigration officials and then set free in their home countries. – The practice goes back to at least 1991 and includes the release of murder, kidnapping and child rape suspects.
Murder rates: Cuidad Juárez deadlier than Miami in ’80s
November 16, 2009
Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day (this past Friday) in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Fernando Bermudez Wrongfully Jailed For 18 Years, Finally Gets Justice – New York
November 13, 2009
Postville Raid: Eighteen months have passed since immigration agents raided Agriprocessors Inc. meat plant, arrested nearly 400 workers, and sent the plant spiraling into bankruptcy. – On Thursday, the plant’s former vice president – Sholom Rubashkin – was found guilty of 86 of 91 counts of financial crimes. – Verdict brings closure to many in Postville
Federal authorities have identified more than 111,000 immigrants with criminal records being held in local jails, during the first year of a program that seeks to deport immigrants who have committed serious crimes.
November 11, 2009
Cuban man executed Tuesday for Houston slaying
November 10, 2009
Gunmen targeting Hispanic businesses in Houston
A Guatemalan designated as one of the world’s biggest drug kingpins has been convicted of cocaine importation and distribution charges by New York jury
A man who helped load smuggled immigrants into a tractor-trailer in which 17 of them later died in Victoria was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison Monday. – Abelardo Flores Jr in Texas
November 9, 2009
4 charged in lottery scam targeting elderly Hispanics in Chicago
November 5, 2009
A former Memphis police officer has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing money from Hispanic motorists while on duty.
November 4, 2009
A news reporter who wrote about violent drug crimes has been strangled in the northern Mexican state of Durango – El Tiempo de Durango journalist Jose Bladimir Antuna
November 2, 2009
The leader of a Mexican farmworkers’ organization and 14 other people were killed in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora
Mexico reaches record 100 extraditions to US
October 27, 2009
Central America is most crime-ridden region in world, U.N. report finds
October 26, 2009
Guatemala suffered 2,953 murders during the first 9 months of this year, a prominent human rights organization said Friday.
US arrests 300 La Familia members
October 17, 2009
Cuidad Juárez killings: Women victims are new aspect of ongoing violence across border
October 15, 2009
Mexican Illegal Immigrant (Mario Vera) Badly Beaten In Brooklyn – Devastated Wife Asks For Witnesses To Come Forward; Woodhull Hospital Under Fire Over Initial Treatment – (yet another apparent hate crime called “bias attack” – $12k reward for info) + video
October 14, 2009
A 21-year-old Montgomery County man Hector Hernandez whose criminal case helped trigger new police policies in Montgomery Count regarding illegal immigration was sentenced to 50 years in prison Thursday for killing a 14-year-old honor student aboard a transit bus last year
Decapitated body among 100 girls, women killed in Cuidad Juárez in ‘09 – “first time a woman has been decapitated and her body displayed in this manner” – (NOT GOOD but nothing seems to change) + The death toll in Juárez has surpassed the 1,900 mark for the year over the weekend, according to a tally kept by the El Paso Times.
October 13, 2009
Luis Armando Pena Soltren: Hijacker Arrested At JFK Airport 40 Years After Diverting Plane To Cuba
Parents of victims furious to learn that DWI mom Carmen Huertas mocked her own daughter’s pleas to be careful – NYC
October 7, 2009
About 80% of the murders committed in Puerto Rico are directly linked to drug trafficking, authorities and academics say.
Killings in Cuidad Juárez: Girl, 9, among 35 homicides in first 4 days of October
Assailants armed with assault rifles burst into a hospital in the northern Mexican state of Durango and killed three men being treated for gunshot wounds
The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services on Tuesday dropped its claim that Maria Gurrola’s four children be removed from her care filed after allegations that Gurrola and her husband knew of a plan to sell the baby before the Sept. 29 kidnapping. – Yair Antonio Carrillo saga
October 5, 2009
A training program sponsored by law enforcement aims to reduce crime in the Hispanic community in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
Police: Maria Gurrolla’s immigration status was “not relevant” to solving assault and abduction of Gurrolla’s days-old son – If someone posing as the IRS attacked you at work, would the press interview your accountant? – The case of Yair Anthony Carillo abduction
Book review: “This is for the Mara Salvatrucha:” Teen in “America’s Most Violent Gang” finds there’s no exit – true story of Brenda Paz by Samuel Logan
Federal authorities announced the Chicago arrest of the top boss of the Latin Kings and the dismantling of the gang’s operations in the city’s Mexican neighborhood of La Villita (Little Village).
Over the past year, an average of nine woman were murdered by their spouses, boyfriends or ex-partners each month in Peru and many of these crimes were motivated by jealousy
October 4, 2009
Latino Baby abducted by knife-wielding attacker found – Mom gets to hold him but must wait to take him home; arrest made – Yair Anthony Carillo – Nashville – (strangely – the mother’s other 3 kids were taken by Tennessee Department of Children’s Services for ’safety reasons’ and the attacker/kidnapper’s boyfriend is a Latino)
October 2, 2009
Concern grows as search for Tenn. infant continues – Yair Anthony Carillo
Mexico’s Ferocious Zetas Cartel Reigns Through Fear
October 1, 2009
Slaying spurs seminars for Latino workers – Norfolk, Virginia
September 30, 2009
Hundreds of U.S. and local agents swept into a town in southern Puerto Rico on Tuesday to break up violent drug rings accused of operating out of several public housing projects.
Mexican drug cartels shift to growing marijuana on this side of border
NASHVILLE: Amber alert issued for abducted 4-day-old baby – Yair Anthony Carillo – Police believe a woman posing as an immigration worker went to Carrillo’s home and demanded his mother Maria Gurrolla, give her the baby. When refused, the woman stabbed her.
September 29, 2009
Does ICE’s Criminal Alien Program (CAP) Target Serious Criminals?
Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city.
September 28, 2009
Arrest Dims Fiesta DC’s Luster – Washington D.C. Council member Jim Graham’s Chief of Staff, Ted G. Loza arrested on federal bribery charges – Enjoyed Solid Reputation in Latino Community
September 24, 2009
Cubans tell of capture and torture on Mexican journey
Breaking the Silence: The Mexican Army and the 1997 Acteal Massacre
Most Mexicans See Better Life in U.S. – one in three would immigrate to the United States if they could – new Pew Research report
San Ysidro Border Shooting: U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing Closed
September 22, 2009
Mexico’s violent drug gangs are increasingly kidnapping illegal migrants for ransom and forcing them to carry narcotics into the United States as they muscle into the lucrative trade of smuggling people across the border.
September 21, 2009
The tables start to turn on Esteban Nuñez
One of four young men charged in the fatal stabbing of a San Diego college student pleaded guilty Thursday and agreed to testify against the others, including the son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez.
US struggles to keep up in Puerto Rico’s drug war
Parents Rent Children to Pornographers for a Few Cents in Peru
Ciudad Juarez has passed 1,700 murders this year, topping the number for last year with three months to go. Rather horrifically, of the 3,200 people killed in Juarez over the past two years, 500 of them have been drug addicts or those in addiction recovery programs.
September 18, 2009
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right – Julio Diaz in NYC
September 17, 2009
A new team of federal agents operating in Iowa this year has arrested immigrants with previous convictions for sex crimes, cocaine possession, kidnapping and carjacking. – But arrests of such criminals have been the exception, not the rule, new statistics obtained by The Des Moines Register show.
Gunmen burst into a drug treatment center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and shot to death 10 people, the 2nd such mass killing this month.
September 15, 2009
Eight members of the norteño band Los Tecateros were arrested on charges of selling drugs and beating up a man, Mexico City police said Monday.
Several employees of American Airlines were among a group of at least 20 people arrested Tuesday on suspicion of aiding a smuggling ring that shipped drugs from Puerto Rico’s main airport to the U.S. mainland.
U.S. officials troubled by fake currency flowing from Peru – In the last year, agents have recovered about $8 million in fake notes across the U.S. and $18 million, as well as fake passports, in raids in Peru, authorities say.
September 4, 2009
Mexico’s ‘Murder Capital’ Lives Up To Reputation – During a 48-hour stretch this week, 37 people were killed – Cuidad Juarez
Gunmen Kill 17 At A Drug Rehab In Mexico – Cuidad Juarez
September 2, 2009
Burglary probed at Latino church in Patchogue – Long Island, NY
August 27, 2009
Commissioner Constance Barker of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought her campaign against sexual assaults on female Hispanic migrant farm workers to Birmingham on Wednesday.
Un inmigrante ecuatoriano está filmando una película que aborda un tema oportuno en la isla de Long Island: crimen por prejuicios.
August 26, 2009
Police: Criminals targeting hispanics in Salt Lake City
August 25, 2009
9 men in tuxedos charged in Boston beating death of Jose Alicea
‘Better to Be Deported Alive Than to Be Dead’ – For undocumented residents, a call demanding ransom for a kidnapped loved one can lead to an equally fear-inducing call to federal immigration authorities.
August 24, 2009
Florida Sues Foreclosure “Rescuer” Targeting Hispanics for Fraud – JPB Consulting Inc
August 21, 2009
Latino Man Charged with Largest Case of Identity Theft In U.S. History – Miami’s Alberto Gonzales
Report: 52 Mexican reporters killed in last decade
August 17, 2009
A Hispanic man told investigators he was beaten and robbed in a racially charged attack in a Long Island community where another Hispanic was killed in an alleged hate crime last fall, police said.
Prosecutors said Thursday they plan to seek the death penalty against the leader of an anti-illegal immigrant group and two others charged in an Arizona home invasion that left a 9-year-old girl and her father dead.
Singer Carlos Ocaranza was gunned down Sunday as he left a bar where he had given a concert in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara – related to Valentin Elizalde
August 16, 2009
Mexico cartels go from drugs to full-scale mafias
FBI: Human trafficking increases among Hispanics in Arkansas
August 13, 2009
Hispanic men have been targeted in a series of strong-arm street robberies in the Central Neighborhood of San Mateo, according to police Capt. Kevin Raffaelli.
August 12, 2009
Pratt student Eduardo Sanchez still in coma almost a week after savage beating by gang of teenagers
August 11, 2009
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) said Monday that it’s time for the federal government to aid police and prosecutors seeking Mexican nationals who commit violent crimes in the United States and flee to Mexico.
More than 600 former agents of Mexico’s Federal Investigation Agency, or AFI, are now working for drug cartels, Reforma newspaper said Monday, citing anonymous official sources.
Mexico’s Drug Traffickers Continue Trade in Prison
August 10, 2009
Top 3 Guatemalan police officials fired over drugs
A racehorse valued at $100,000 was stolen earlier this week by several assailants who killed it to sell its meat by the kilo at a market south of Lima.
A Mexican lawyer known for defending high-profile drug trafficking suspects was shot to death Sunday at a street market in the northern city of Monterrey.
August 8, 2009
East LA Taco Truck Robber Turns Himself In
August 6, 2009
Pan American Bank (Los Angeles) CEO Jesse Torres to Co-Chair Anti-Money Laundering Chapter – Yahoo! Finance
August 5, 2009
Broward deputy arrested, charged with sexual battery of illegal immigrants
August 4, 2009
Pilsen mural vandalized says “Mexicans are racist.”
August 3, 2009
July was Juárez’s deadliest month with 248 homicides :: around 300 homicides in all of 2007
July 29, 2009
A Transgender Person is Murdered Every 3 Days in the World…Mostly in Latin America
July 21, 2009
Mexican Drug Cartels Spread Their Tentacles Into 47 Nations
State Ruled by Crime and Chávez Family – Barinas, Venezuela – Stretching over vast cattle estates at the foothills of the Andes, Barinas is known for two things: as the bastion of the family of President Hugo Chávez and as the setting for a terrifying surge in abductions, making it a contender for Latin America’s most likely place to get kidnapped.
July 20, 2009
Thieves Continue to Target Migrant Farm Workers in Lowndes County – Florida
