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The Texas Department of Public Safety classifies Tango Blast as a "loose affiliation" gang, with "relaxed membership requirements and little to no detectable leadership hierarchy." [ 14 ] The El Paso County sheriff's officials have noted that "there is no known formal organization of the gang on El Paso streets."
The Syndicate is the oldest Texan prison gang. [1] The Texas Syndicate has approximately 1,300 members, the majority of whom are Mexican American males aged between 20 and 40. [3] While the gangs maintains its headquarters in California, there are around 1,000 members in prisons and jails throughout Texas, with many others operating on the outside.
In a relatively low-security area inside the prison, the gang members began to produce knives and force other guards to liberate 150 fellow members. [22] Once they took the guards hostage, Barrio Azteca members went into high-security blocks where the rival members were in, forced the guards to open them, and went about killing the rival inmates.
Mathews and Fields each face a maximum of 20 years in prison when they are sentenced in Tallahassee on April 25, according to federal court records. They must also pay Wells Fargo back the $88,710 ...
Prison gangs are geographically and racially divided, and about 70% of prison gang members are in California and Texas. [4] Skarbek suggests prison gangs function similar to a community responsibility system. Interactions between strangers are facilitated because you do not have to know an individual's reputation, only a gang's reputation.
In the Big Apple, Tren de Aragua is trying to recruit foot soldiers to force women into sex trafficking to fund gang activity. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has declared the prison gang a foreign ...
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) is an American white supremacist and Neo-Nazi prison and street gang. [4] According to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is one of the largest and most violent neo-Nazi white supremacist prison gangs and organized criminal enterprises in the United States, responsible for numerous murders and ...
Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos (HPL) is a Mexican American prison gang founded by Chino Avitia in Texas during the early 1980s. [2] [3] [4] The English translation of the gang's name is "Brotherhood of Latin Gunmen". It operates in all Texas prisons and on the streets in many communities in Texas, particularly in Laredo. [5]