Humboldt CO. Part of the Nuestra Familia Gang Territory Claimed Feds Today as They Announced Charges Against 17 Defendants in Operation Quiet Storm

News Conference today announcing Operation Quiet Storm

News Conference today announcing Operation Quiet Storm.

According to the FBI, the US Attorney’s Office and the DEA at a major news conference held today in the Bay Area, the prison gang, the Nuestra Familia “claims” Humboldt County as their territory.

The Federal agencies worked together to understand and damage the criminal organization in Operation Quiet Storm.

“Operation Quiet Storm was the culmination of more than 5 years of complex investigative work,” tweeted FBI San Francisco. “The gangs targeted in this case are responsible for much of the illicit drug distribution and violent crime that has plagued areas throughout CA.”

This is a press release from the US Attorney’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:

A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 17 defendants with racketeering conspiracy, including acts involving murder, robbery, drug trafficking, and money laundering, and charging five others with drug trafficking-related crimes.  The indictment handed down onAugust 25, 2021, and unsealed today, catalogues a litany of crimes allegedly directed by the Nuestra Familia’s command structure incarcerated in California prisons.  The charging announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Stephanie Hinds, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Crag D. Fair, and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon at a press conference this morning. Also appearing at the press conference were Chief of the Office of Correctional Safety for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Derrick Marion, Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith, and San Jose Deputy Chief of Police Elle Washburn.

“The indictment charges all seven of the members who make up the Nuestra Familia’s ruling body: the General Council,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Hinds. “While the physical movement of this leadership was restricted by prison walls, the indictment alleges their power and influence were not so constrained. By disrupting gang leadership, we reduce violence on our streets.  By removing violent actors and crime drivers from the streets, we make our neighborhoods safer.”

News Conference today announcing Operation Quiet Storm

Map depicting areas under the influence of the Nuestra Familia.

“The arrests made yesterday, most significantly the arrests of the Nuestra Familia leadership, will severely cripple the ability of this criminal enterprise to continue to facilitate crimes in communities throughout the state and help break a decades-old cycle of violence,” said FBI San Francisco Special Agent in Charge Fair.

“Today’s operation strikes a substantial blow to Nuestra Familia leadership. This investigation revealed the wide-ranging influence of the gang that extends far beyond prison walls. It is clear they have hard and fast rules, and those who run afoul are met with intimidation and violence that spills into our communities,” said DEA Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon. “We will continue to look at these organizations structurally to disrupt and dismantle them.”

According to the indictment, the 17 racketeering defendants were members and associates of the Nuestra Familia (“NF”) prison gang, a violent and lucrative organization formed in the 1960s.  The NF is alleged in the indictment to be a criminal enterprise that was created to organize, protect, discipline, profit from, and maintain the allegiance of gang members on the streets of and within custodial facilities in California.  As outlined in the indictment, membership in the NF involved a process of sponsorship, approval, and indoctrination.  The perpetration of violence and other crimes was ordinarily a prerequisite to entrance, continued membership, and advancement in the organization.  Once membership was achieved, this membership was for life.  The indictment alleges an NF oath provides: “If I lead, follow. If I stumble, push me. If I fall, avenge me. If I betray you, kill me.”

The indictment also describes the NF’s organizational structure and, in particular, the gang’s governing body: a seven-member “General Council,” made up of three Generals and a four-member Inner Council, which makes significant decisions and oversees the activities of the NF and its subservient gangs.  The indictment outlines each position according to the NF Constitution.  According to the NF Constitution, the Street Regiment General oversees the NF’s “overall street operations.”  The General of the Prisons is responsible for the NF’s “overall pinta [prison] functions,” and the General Advocates Office is the NF’s “justice department.”  Tiered just below these three NF Generals was the Inner Council, which consisted of four senior NF members who served as “advisors” to the Generals and provided a system of checks and balances.  All seven members of the NF’s General Council led the NF organization while incarcerated in the California prison system.  Each is charged in this indictment.

Further, the indictment describes the appointment by these leaders of NF members to positions of power over hierarchical and paramilitary structures called “regiments,” imposed on its gang members operating on the streets in California.  While the NF was composed of a relative few, it exercised control and wielded influence over thousands of subordinate gang members in counties and prisons throughout Northern California using such regiments.  These regiments primarily guaranteed the NF’s vast influence and control over its own and its street gang members, ensured avenues to direct violence and other illicit activity, and secured means for the NF to make money through the commission of criminal activity.  The NF oversaw such regiments in Santa Clara County, Monterey County, Santa Cruz County, San Benito County, San Francisco County, San Mateo County, Contra Costa County, Alameda County, Solano County, San Joaquin County, Fresno County, Kings County, Tulare County, Madera County, Merced County, Kern County, Sacramento County, Yolo County, Humboldt County, Shasta County, Lassen County, Tehama County, Butte County, Yuba County, Sutter County, Lake County, Placer County, and Sonoma County, as well as in Salinas Valley State Prison, Pelican Bay State Prison, Pleasant Valley State Prison, California State Prison – Solano, California State Prison – Sacramento, and High Desert State Prison.

According to the indictment, NF members and associates were involved in plots to kill 14 victims between April 2013 and July 2019 as part of the charged racketeering conspiracy.  The defendants charged in the alleged racketeering conspiracy include the following:

Defendant Age Charges Maximum Statutory Penalty
DAVID CERVANTES aka “DC” 73 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
ANTONIO GUILLEN aka “Chuco” 55 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
JAMES PEREZ aka “Conejo”

 

67 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
SAMUEL LUNA aka “Sammy”

 

46 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
GUILLERMO SOLORIO aka “Capone”

 

42 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
TRINIDAD MARTINEZ aka “Trino”

 

41 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
GEORGE FRANCO aka “Puppet”

 

56 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
STEVEN TRUJILLO aka “Esteban”

 

56 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
SALVADOR CASTRO aka “Gangster”

 

51 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
BRYAN ROBLEDO aka “Turtle” 48 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
ALEX YRIGOLLEN aka “Sleepy”

 

52 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
JUAN SOTO aka “Drifter”

 

38 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
EDGARDO RODRIGUEZ aka “Big Evil”

 

41 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
ROBERT MALDONADO aka “KJ”

 

46 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
ERIC ZARATE aka “Baby G”

 

43 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
ROCKY BRACAMONTE aka “Fox”

 

37 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy Life
JOSHUA CORTEZ aka “Buddah”

 

28 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) – Racketeering Conspiracy 20 years

Also charged in the indictment are defendants who allegedly participated in two conspiracies to possess and distribute methamphetamine, one in May of 2019 and the other in September 2020 to March 2021.  The charges pending against these defendants are as follows:

Defendant Age Charges Maximum Statutory Penalty
WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ aka “Negro” 34 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B) – Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine At least 5 years, up to 40 years
MARVIN RODRIGUEZ 34 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B) – Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine

 

At least 5 years, up to 40 years
CRISTIAN MORA aka “C-Fresh” 28 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B) – Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine

 

At least 5 years, up to 40 years
MARTIN JOSEPH RUPPEL JR. 42 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B) – Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine

 

At least 5 years, up to 40 years
ANAELISA CUEVAS 35 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B) – Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine At least 5 years, up to 40 years

The court also may order additional terms of supervised release, fines, and restitution.  Nevertheless, any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court only after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of a sentence, 18 U.S.C. § 3553.

An indictment merely alleges that crimes have been committed, and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

The defendants are scheduled to make initial federal court appearances before U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Nathanael Cousins and U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Sallie Kim today.

This case is being prosecuted by the Organized Crime Strike Force of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.  The prosecution is the result of an investigation by the FBI (San Francisco, Sacramento, and Phoenix Divisions), the DEA, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the U.S. Marshal Service, with the assistance of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, and the San Jose Police Department, and with support from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, Antioch Police Department, Campbell Police Department, Fremont Police Department, King’s County Sheriff’s Office, Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, Mountain View Police Department, Sacramento Police Department, Salinas Police Department, Menlo Park Police Department, Santa Clara County Parole Department, Santa Clara County Probation Department, Santa Clara Police Department, Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office, Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, Modesto Police Department, San Francisco Police Department, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department, and Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety.

This investigation and prosecution are part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (“OCDETF”), which identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations that threaten the United States by using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach that leverages the strengths of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies against criminal networks.

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NorCalNative
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NorCalNative
2 years ago

I’ve been following the drug war far too long to think this changes anything. New opportunistic players are waiting in the wings for their chance. Bet on it.

Minority Abuse
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Minority Abuse
2 years ago
Reply to  NorCalNative

Turf wars. They are all Gangs

9500 illegals under the del Rio bridge, mostly Haitian.

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Charlie
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Charlie
2 years ago
Reply to  Minority Abuse

Just wait till there under the Rio Dell bridge.

I like stars
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I like stars
2 years ago
Reply to  Charlie

Probably already filled with actual US citizens

red fox
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red fox
2 years ago
Reply to  Charlie

No room our homeless are already there

Country Joe
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Country Joe
2 years ago
Reply to  Minority Abuse

Thanks to Bug Out Biden…

red fox
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red fox
2 years ago
Reply to  NorCalNative

Your right. There are 4 main prison gangs i have heard of. aryan brotherhood, black family, also known as bgf, Mexican mafia which controls the south and the NF up north. All these gangs are in a constant power struggle.

Country Joe
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Country Joe
2 years ago
Reply to  red fox

I believe the BGF was replaced by the CRIPS and the the BLOODS a while back. Gangs run our prisons.

red fox
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red fox
2 years ago

Sheriff Honsal was to busy tracking down antifa buses to notice them.

red fox
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red fox
2 years ago
Reply to  red fox

And the NF better not mess with Covelo

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  red fox

Lol, that’s probably who is already established there.

red fox
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red fox
2 years ago
Reply to  red fox

Thanks for the negative votes. I consider it a badge of honor. Hope it was something I said.

stuber
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stuber
2 years ago
Reply to  red fox

Antifa are just as bad as these people. Since they have “claimed” Humboldt as their territory, we could confiscate their assets, and pay all our property taxes.

NorCalNative
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NorCalNative
2 years ago
Reply to  stuber

For the record, my George Soros-paid antifa Healthcare and pension are freaking awesome. Plus everyone knows January 6 was us and not those afflicted with foxitis. Set the record straight peeps.

Jeffersonian
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2 years ago

Dont worry. Biden will let their cousins in to take over the business.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  Jeffersonian

They’re already in the states. Born and raised.
You guys live in daily fear of the border.
You act as if Biden is down at the Border welcoming each and every passer.
Are you under the impression that no one came thru the border with Covid when Trump was President?

namer
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namer
2 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

Or, would you rather talk about 40+% of “covid hospitalizations” are false positives, commonly from incidental testing of asymptomatic, or mildly “symptomatic” (shortness of breath, etc), patients who arrive for completely other reasons (bone fracture, etc.) at 40+CT—while massively underreported breakthrough cases are ran at under 30 CT?

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  namer

No, but I guess you do…
Got some links proving your statements?

Guest
Guest
Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  namer

Deny reality and be forced to create another, artifical explanation for hospitalization . Because something could happen, even occasionally does happen, does not mean it explains much of anything.

CancelLogic
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CancelLogic
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

This article in the Atlantic describes the CDC’s self reported recognition of grossly over reporting covid #’s.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hospitalization-numbers-can-be-misleading/620062/

scott cheshire
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scott cheshire
2 years ago
Reply to  CancelLogic

The Atlantic is right a wing propaganda macine

Dano
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Dano
2 years ago
Reply to  namer

Fake news. Where is your citation?

Alf
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Alf
2 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

Likely they’re all personal friends of Hunter.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  Alf

Yeah,sure.

cutommorrow
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cutommorrow
2 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

they did, illegally. When the presidency changed people walked across the border til they “closed it” again

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Dano
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Dano
2 years ago
Reply to  cutommorrow

Thay have always “walked across the border” but overwhelmingly they are coming over in trucks and cargo just like the drugs.

Anonymous for fear of community reprisal
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Anonymous for fear of community reprisal
2 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

Where do you think they’re getting the drugs and the financial backing?

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago

Well, Hunter Biden of course. Every one knows that.

Dano
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Dano
2 years ago
Reply to  Jeffersonian

Fake news. They are already in prison…US Prisons create gangs and increase criminality as does capitalism.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago

And hundreds more crossing the border every month.
Biden will give them welfare to set up their operations.

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Pamela Maxfield
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Pamela Maxfield
2 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Here is an idea: leave Humboldt and go live near The Moron in Florida.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago

The truth hurts?

Non-fiction
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Non-fiction
2 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

No…it’s just painful to listen to the same recycled baseless political rhetoric from a bunch of paranoid TOOLs, several of which are devoutly racist, who know little of what’s actually happening at the border and who think fox commentary is news.

Fkn Tools

Local Family
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Local Family
2 years ago
Reply to  Non-fiction

baseless?

local observer
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local observer
2 years ago
Reply to  Local Family

yes baseless. you are all being plaid by the Tea party. they looked at the demographics and have pandered to you ever since merely for your vote. they are not dumb. it cracks me up how they are playing the anti-vax card on FOX news when everyone in that entire building in NY is vaccinated. and its a large building. NAFTA is what brought mexican meth to the USA.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Yeah, you can bet on it ! Tucker Carlson said so !

namer
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namer
2 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

Remember when you thought the DNC would shelter you from reality?

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  namer

No.

Joe
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Joe
2 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

And let them run around unvaccinated

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  Joe

Like all of the US citizens that refuse to get vaccinated?

Anonymous for fear of community reprisal
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Anonymous for fear of community reprisal
2 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

They also give all the immigrants from South America Ivermectin lol

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago

Who?

Scooter
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Scooter
2 years ago

Nuestra Familia; Come to my neighborhood and tell me it is “your” territory. Su madre.

namer
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namer
2 years ago

No way was Sade the squealer on this one.

Joe
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Joe
2 years ago

So did they arrest people that are already in prison? If so well done. Lol

red fox
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red fox
2 years ago
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Actually a lot of the heads of these gangs are in prison, and issue orders from there. The aryan brotherhood prison gang was notorious for that.

Juanita
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Juanita
2 years ago

Unless these guys are incarcerated in isolation and denied contacr with their families (which is probably not possible) they will lose little of their power and influence over the gang and little will change. They are more sophistcated and less constrained than the prisons, jails & lawyers

In my 1911 I trust
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In my 1911 I trust
2 years ago
Reply to  Juanita

Exactly, they are operating the gang from prison, so under that one condition giving them more time in prison does absolutely nothing at all. What happened to the death penalty again in California? [edit]

Non-fiction
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Non-fiction
2 years ago

They will be moving to federal prisons if convicted.
Can easily be moved around the country to disrupt their racket.

Farce
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Farce
2 years ago
Reply to  Juanita

Capital punishment would help prevent this. But I guess that’s inhumane? So instead we allow life-termers to operate out of the prison system and run gangs of murderers in all our cities….genius and so humane!

Non-fiction
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Non-fiction
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Capital punishment has been shown in every study for decades that it does not reduce the occurence of the crimes it was “designed” to stop.

False narrative.

You can hope all you want but it won’t create the idyllic world you envision.

Farce
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Farce
2 years ago
Reply to  Non-fiction

I don’t care about your “study”. It would stop THAT guy from committing THAT crime…once he was dead. Can you deny that fact? No. You cannot…

Non-fiction
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Non-fiction
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

No.
But it doesn’t change the demographics or likelihood of any other crimes occuring.

Not MY study bud.
The studies are based on real life and verifiable facts, not ideals.

Not caring about some facts of life makes it a bit harder to improve our lives since half the decision making body wants to continue the failed methods proven to not work.

Bloodlust won’t fix our problems.
It just makes us more like the criminals we all want to rid society of.

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Onlooker
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Onlooker
2 years ago

Are all of these people already in prison? How does it change a thing in real life?

Anonymous for fear of community reprisal
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Anonymous for fear of community reprisal
2 years ago
Reply to  Onlooker

The game was organized in prison, they now have chapters all over California. Mostly Northern California

Buzz
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Buzz
2 years ago

It’s too late for that now, holmes. They’re too big in Vacaville to make a move on.
Now they’re making a play and shit in Folsom.
They gotta pay a bill, ese.

Jeffersonian
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Jeffersonian
2 years ago

Not sure how a group of Latino incarcerated thugs can claim sohum, the whitest county ever, where you’d have to drive 2 hours to find a Mercado.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  Jeffersonian

They claim territory to deal their drugs , not take over white communities by sheer numbers.

cutommorrow
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cutommorrow
2 years ago
Reply to  Jeffersonian

you should get out there more often

Farce
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Farce
2 years ago
Reply to  Jeffersonian

Fortuna

In my 1911 I trust
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In my 1911 I trust
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

It’s probably just claimed as a meth distribution center. They get the order and bring some dope up from down south to drop with a local tweaker. I doubt there are many, if any, active Mexican gangs up here. Probably one of the local white eureka tweaker gangs is one of the auxiliary street gangs under their control, if I had to speculate. Most likely cause someone from the NF is their meth wholesaler. Hence they claim the place.

cutommorrow
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cutommorrow
2 years ago

too much racial tension between the two. N F moto, . Your in or your dead.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
2 years ago
Reply to  Jeffersonian

More like 60 miles.

Just Asking
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Just Asking
2 years ago

Any arrests up here?

Bill
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Bill
2 years ago

“Its just a plant”, “let them grow how they want” , “it doesn’t bring crime”, “it is not a gateway drug”……Blah, blah.

Just grow your own damn it. Don’t blow up the place and expect nothing to happen.

Boooo
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Boooo
2 years ago

Pinché nortenos! BOOOOO! 👎

North west
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North west
2 years ago

hope the ones in prison can’t communicate don’t work. It might sound draconian but no more mail Just the 6×8 cell with out any outside Communication would.
Please use common sense

North west
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North west
2 years ago

I do wonder why the USA has always welcomed Haitians in with open arms Especially the republicans.

VictimofHumboldt
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VictimofHumboldt
1 year ago

The whole town is run by criminals. The whole town is a gang. They run the schools, businesses, and every government organization you can think of.