Mexican Gang members arrested in West Yellowstone

[bearmgc]

Drug Task Force arrested members of the Mexican gang, the Serenos, outside West Yellowstone, MT. One member had a history of being deported back to Mexico "multiple times." They were charged with trafficking narcotics and of trying to set up an illegal operation to launder drug money.

What, like a "Bed and Breakfast," or "Car rental" business? Not likely.... Anybody know anything more about this?

[Dee]

I couldn't find anything at all regarding the event. When did this happen, and where did you get it?

[powderman]

One member had a history of being deported back to Mexico "multiple times." They were charged with trafficking narcotics and of trying to set up an illegal operation to launder drug money.


If they let him live, make him build the wall, tattoo a big bullseye and paid for on his forehead, then ship his worthless carcass South and make it plain that he is fair game for any American to permanently deport him without fear of any charges by authorities. I've lost all tolerence for these scum. POWDERMAN. 

[bearmgc]

Dee, I found a little news blurb on The Riverton, WY news website this morning. I was trying to check for something on the Missoula or Bozeman, Mt newspaper website.

[Dee]

I think as long as these type of events are kept quite, none of the other states are going to jump on board and support Arizona. This will spread till it's totally out of control.

[nw_hunter]

I couldn't find anything at all regarding the event. When did this happen, and where did you get it?

Agencies team up to arrest gang members in West Yellowstone, Bozeman

   

Associated Press | Posted: Monday, July 5, 2010 1:54 pm | (78) Comments

BOZEMAN — Nine men face deportation to Mexico and a 10th awaits federal immigration charges after a law-enforcement sweep of southwestern Montana resulted in the arrests of people associated with a dangerous street gang.

The Gallatin County Sheriff's Office, Missouri River Drug Task Force and West Yellowstone Police Department all helped arrest men that federal officials say are affiliated with the Sureno gang. At least one man had a tattoo of the word "Sureno" across his upper back.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that two of the arrests were in West Yellowstone, while eight were in Bozeman.

Sureno gang members are typically associated with communities in California. In recent months, law enforcement agents there have arrested more than 100 suspected gang members in cities along California's Central Coast as part of a major crackdown on drugs and violent crime that has terrorized residents.

In Montana, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said he's not ready to speculate on whether last week's arrests will spell the end of Sureno activity in the region.

"That would be a little naive," Rusnok said. "This is an ongoing process."

It's unclear just what the men were doing in the Montana communities, which are located near Yellowstone National Park. Gallatin County Sheriff Jim Cashell says he's limiting information he's releasing about the arrests so he won't compromise any federal investigation.

But an Immigration and Customs Enforcement press release that accompanied the arrests said recent investigations have concluded that "criminal gangs, such as the Surenos and others, are becoming increasingly involved in Montana with smuggling and distributing narcotics, laundering illicit drug proceeds, and other illegal activities."

Drug-related charges haven't been filed in the arrests last Friday. The one man facing federal charges is accused only of re-entering the United States after having been previously deported "multiple times," Rusnok said.

[Spirithawk]

You know? If you are with someone that commits a crime, and you did nothing to stop nor report it, then you are held just as guilty as the guy that did it so why not apply that to gangs? If a gang has a violent history then all members should be guilty of any crime, by association, when comitted by any other member. One is locked up then they all should be! Why wait for them to grow in numbers and strength? Let it be known that a simple membership in any gang with a violent history is a criminal offense in and of itself and means an instant mandantary term in prison the instant you're found out absolutely no chance of parole! Also that if you are a member of a gang and commit a murder then it's the death penalty for you and anyone in your gang is charged with murder too, whether they were there are not. You supported the murderer by being a member of his gang and therefore should be held just as guilty as he or she! Do that and I'll garauntee it won't be near as easy for them to recruit new members and old members will be either in jail or dead. Gang problem solved!

[SHOOTALL]

I think as long as these type of events are kept quite, none of the other states are going to jump on board and support Arizona. This will spread till it's totally out of control.

Dee ain't it already out of control ?

[SHOOTALL]

You know? If you are with someone that commits a crime, and you did nothing to stop nor report it, then you are held just as guilty as the guy that did it so why not apply that to gangs? If a gang has a violent history then all members should be guilty of any crime comitted by any member. One is locked up then they all should be! Why wait for them to grow in numbers and strength? Let it be known that a simple membership in any gang with a violent history is a criminal offense in and of itself and means an instant mandantary term in prison with no chance of parole! Also that if you are a member of a gang and commit a murder then it's the death penalty for you and anyone in your gang is charged with murder too, whether they were there are not. You supported the murderer by being a member of his gang and therefore should be held just as guilty as he or she! Do that and I'll garauntee it won't be near as easy for them to recruit new members and old members will be either in jail or dead. Gang problem solved!

Gangs act as one and should recieve punishment as one . The BS way we treat them is the same as how we fight wars .

[bearmgc]

I'm sure the RICO laws would apply here, especially since it appears they were trying to launder drug money.

[saddlebum]

Sureno gang members are typically associated with communities in California. In recent months, law enforcement agents there have arrested more than 100 suspected gang members in cities along California's Central Coast as part of a major crackdown on drugs and violent crime that has terrorized residents.
Quote:

Montana is just a subdivision of California. Has been for years. I was shocked when I lived in the Bitterroot Valley that there was so much drug related crime from Cal. transplants. And this in little towns as small as Stephensville and Victor and Corvallis. Towns with populations of under 3,000 people. Also shows in that Mt. is no longer a red state. Montanans have been fighting a losing battle against the mass migration of liberal/progressive Californians for a long time. God bless 'em, I think they have lost the war. Former Governor Mark Racicot told me one time that Californians consider Mt. their own playground and think they can do what ever they want with no regard for the people that have lived there all their lives and got along just fine without them. They bring Cal. with them wherever they go. As seen in this article. Walking around any town in western Mt. feels and looks the same as being in Cal.. Arrogant buttheads as far as the eye can see.

[Hodr]

I am not disputing the last post or the quote attributed to in it.  That is impossible as the quote has been given without any attribution or specific source.  If you are going to use such language and try to cover it by declaring it a QUOTE; man up and say where you got it, then everyone can look at it in context.

blindhari
not arrogant just, just slightly offended

[Spirithawk]

 Seems an awful lot of people are passionet about such things as are being discussed here. Enough so that they are willing to argue and turn on each other from one moment to the next. That makes me kinda wonder, and I mean no disrespect to anyone, but if so very passionet about things, then why limit your passion to just talk? Does it not seem much more logical to actually become active in solving problems than crying about them? And that folks is the true problem with our Country. Everybody sees problems, everybody fusses and rants and cries about problems, everybody wants problems solved,  but very very few actually try to solve them. I think Dee has said as much in other posts too. Of course everyone has seen what happened when I tried to educate folks about my people, but if bullets couldn't kill me....words won't! Making a differance can mean as little as educating people about a problem or simply casting a vote based on knowledge of what a man has done rather than what he says he'll do. Much more would get done if we just quit bickering among ourselves. Those we should really be against just love seeing us devided! I'm not directing this at this thread as much as at similar threads. Actually this one is being discussed with some patience and intelligence being shown. Wish some of the other ones were. For my part I feel Arizona is stepping up and doing what everyone else knows they should do but is too danged afraid or too wishy washy to do themselves!

[powderman]

Gangs= scum=  dregs of society= worthles punks. They should be shot on the spot,  tossed accross the border, then call and tell their president where to collect his citizens. Make it plain that it will be repeated til they stop. POWDERMAN. 

[saddlebum]

I am not disputing the last post or the quote attributed to in it.  That is impossible as the quote has been given without any attribution or specific source.  If you are going to use such language and try to cover it by declaring it a QUOTE; man up and say where you got it, then everyone can look at it in context.

blindhari
not arrogant just, just slightly offended

The quote in my previous post is from post #5 in this thread. That quote in post #5 is attributed to the Associated Press. I used it to go on my usual rant about what I consider the invasion of Mt. I did get a little off topic since I think the thread is more about illegal aliens and their criminal activites in our northern most state. But Cal. is a big part of the illegal alien problem in America and I guess with all the other negative influence they bring with them wherever they go, it only follows suit that Mt. has illegal alien criminal activity like this that sounds like organized crime. It's always bothered me what's happened to Mt. because of liberal/progressive influence. Therefore the rant.

Hope that's man enough for you.     

[myronman3]

If they let him live, make him build the wall, tattoo a big bullseye and paid for on his forehead, then ship his worthless carcass South and make it plain that he is fair game for any American to permanently deport him without fear of any charges by authorities.

  oh now i like that idea!!!   I LIKE THAT ALOT!  that could be more fun than pirate hunting!

[powderman]

If they let him live, make him build the wall, tattoo a big bullseye and paid for on his forehead, then ship his worthless carcass South and make it plain that he is fair game for any American to permanently deport him without fear of any charges by authorities.

  oh now i like that idea!!!   I LIKE THAT ALOT!  that could be more fun than pirate hunting!

YEP, and you wouldn't get seasick. We should make it so terrible for them they would not want to come back. POWDERMAN. 

[Hodr]

Saddlebum,  
Perhaps I was in error.  The way I read your post, the quote as I read it appeared to be the part under "Quote:"  It is indeed from a previous post and evidently in order.  I realise that your opinions may be extremely valid from your standpoint and respect them.  I am however a California expatriate.  I do not hold with the state's laws and moved as soon as I had our kids out of school, into Arizona.  If pride in the way I was raised, the state I enlisted from, the sherriffs dept I was sworn to, the scouts I helped train make me an ex-california arrogant butthead, so be it.  As I said, perhaps I was in error, however please remember the Virginian when you use a generic, "When you call me that, smile"

blindhari
Sgt, Ranger
Like my father before me,
and just as Irish as my mother

[saddlebum]

Seems an awful lot of people are passionet about such things as are being discussed here. Enough so that they are willing to argue and turn on each other from one moment to the next. That makes me kinda wonder, and I mean no disrespect to anyone, but if so very passionet about things, then why limit your passion to just talk? Does it not seem much more logical to actually become active in solving problems than crying about them? And that folks is the true problem with our Country. Everybody sees problems, everybody fusses and rants and cries about problems, everybody wants problems solved,  but very very few actually try to solve them. I think Dee has said as much in other posts too. Of course everyone has seen what happened when I tried to educate folks about my people, but if bullets couldn't kill me....words won't! Making a differance can mean as little as educating people about a problem or simply casting a vote based on knowledge of what a man has done rather than what he says he'll do. Much more would get done if we just quit bickering among ourselves. Those we should really be against just love seeing us devided! I'm not directing this at this thread as much as at similar threads. Actually this one is being discussed with some patience and intelligence being shown. Wish some of the other ones were. For my part I feel Arizona is stepping up and doing what everyone else knows they should do but is too danged afraid or too wishy washy to do themselves!

Spirithawk;

It's funny that you were so quick to post after mine because I was thinking of you while I typed it. I can in no way say that I have experienced anything close to what you or your people have. But you talked about this in a post somewhere about how white folks are experiencing a similar event in that traditional America is in a cense being overrun. I hope I got that right, correct me if I'm missrepresenting your words. This is a corny reference but, when the Indian in,"Dances With Wolves", asked how many will come, the answer was,"as many as the stars in the sky". I don't mean by a different race, but by progressives. Which come in all colors. I agree with your post. It is very insightfull. In my rant I did not give my usual disclaimer by saying that not all Californians are bad. But California has become synomonymous with Progressives and they have changed Mt. forever. This thread is just more proof of that.
Thanks Spirithawk!!

[saddlebum]

Saddlebum,  
Perhaps I was in error.  The way I read your post, the quote as I read it appeared to be the part under "Quote:"  It is indeed from a previous post and evidently in order.  I realise that your opinions may be extremely valid from your standpoint and respect them.  I am however a California expatriate.  I do not hold with the state's laws and moved as soon as I had our kids out of school, into Arizona.  If pride in the way I was raised, the state I enlisted from, the sherriffs dept I was sworn to, the scouts I helped train make me an ex-california arrogant butthead, so be it.  As I said, perhaps I was in error, however please remember the Virginian when you use a generic, "When you call me that, smile"

blindhari
Sgt, Ranger
Like my father before me,
and just as Irish as my mother

My fault!! I forgot to include the fact that I know some great people from and still living in Cal.. They are out numbered by the folks that run that state. I tend to take it personal when it comes to Mt. since I lived there and know what the,"natives", have gone through. And still do. Hope there's no hard feelings.

NOW BACK TO THE TOPIC AT HAND !!!

[gypsyman]

The problem is that this country doesn't treat these criminals, like other country's. Get caught with drugs of any kind in many other country's, and it's 20 years in a s**t hole. We give them flat screen tv's, excersize time, some get conjugal visits from there wives. They have it better in our prisons, than where they came from. Why souldn't they come to this country. Start treating them worse than where they came from, it'll change their thinking. gypsyman

[powderman]

Start treating them worse than where they came from, it'll change their thinking. gypsyman.


Darned right, but then the panty wetters would scream and the A nti  C cristian  L iars   U nion would be screaming about violating their rights. POWDERMAN. 

[Old Fart]

These rascals have been slipping in to Oklahoma of late also.
Most recent increases have came after the Arizona issue.
Here's a few articles from the Oklahoma City paper about it.

http://www.newsok.com/article/3472786?searched=mexican%20drug&custom_click=search

http://www.newsok.com/article/feed/170316?searched=mexican%20drug&custom_click=search

http://www.newsok.com/article/3364185?searched=mexican%20drug%20western%20oklahoma&custom_click=search

For what it's worth this will be happening everywhere soon enough.

Plus let's not forget that the Central Americans aren't the only ones sneaking in over this border.

[rockbilly]

Saddlebum, I have to agree with your comments.

I am but ONE, however, many years ago I recognized the immigration problem for what it is and started a personal, almost daily contact with my Congressman and Senators.  Has it helped?  I don’t know, but the fact is I have done more than talk about it; I have made them aware of my thoughts on the issue and at the same time attempted to encourage to do the same. .  Now if we can get others to join in maybe we can solve this problem.  It is so easy to send an e-mail to your elected officials, and the telephone is always available to make comments when something has to be addressed in a hurry.

If you are interested in immigration issues go to NUMBERSUSA and sign up, they will forward pre-written letters to the Obama and his crew as well as to other elected officials, the only requirement, you have to include your name and address on the document, that’s no problem for me be3cause I believe in standing up for what I think is right.

[Dee]

Old Fart while looking at the prison job in Oklahoma, I learned that the Serenos and the Native American gangs are at war not only in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, but in the prisons also. In Febuary the Indians attacked the Serenos in the chow hall, and sent a bunch to the hospital. The prison has been on lock down ever since.
I ain't got any use for the gangs but, in this case hurrah for the Indians.

[powderman]

I ain't got any use for the gangs but, in this case hurrah for the Indians.


YEP. Good deal. POWDERMAN. 

[jcn59]

The feds have more power than they can or will use, and I don't want them to have any more.   Maybe less power.  Who gave them the authority to PROTECT illegals anyways?  Get rid of them all.  The illegal women and children are just "fences" for the men who come here illegally anyway.   Going on fifteen percent unemployed here.  Screw the tomato pickers.   We're already on the fast track to hell.  How can it get worse?  Just wait and see.

[blind ear]

powderman,
 I like that idea, Feed them and house them in tents until they get the wall built and then put them on the south side of the wall.  Arizona could do that. eddiegjr

[powderman]

EDDIEGJR. Not just accross the border, to the Southermost part of mexico. At least it'll take em a few days to get back. POWDERMAN. 

[streak]

Gangs= scum=  dregs of society= worthles punks. They should be shot on the spot,  tossed accross the border, then call and tell their president where to collect his citizens. Make it plain that it will be repeated til they stop. POWDERMAN. 

Powderman,
I guess you could call that " Justified"!!