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Two MS-13 members admit selling drugs
By adamg on Fri, 03/30/2018 - 11:21pm
MS-13 members from East Boston and Everett are the latest to plead guilty, in their cases to RICO violations related to the sales of drugs.
The US Attorney's office reports that Edgar "Cadejo" Pleitez, 28, a member of the East Boston Loco Salvatrucha "clique" (left in photo) admitted this week he conspired with other MS-13 member to sell at least 100 grams of heroin, and that German "Terible" Hernandez Escobar, 30, a Salvadoran national and member of MS-13's Everett Loco Salvatrucha clique admitted he and other MS-13 members sold marijuana, in part to finance the purchase of guns.
Pleitez will be sentenced July 10; Hernandez Escobar on June 20. They are the 38th and 39th of 61 people arrested in raids in 2016 to plead guilty.
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No, really???? I never
No, really???? I never would have guessed....
The Cats are so turrible..
Until Uncle RICO comes to town and it’s time to start ratting out and pleading guilty.
Pretty funny actually...
Escobar
There's a name with a long proud heritage in the drug world.
waste of time
there are plenty of drug dealers in the pipeline to replace these two.
time to come up with a new strategy for drugs. the current strategy has only been failing for about 30 years now.
There's plenty for the drug dealers to do
if you legalize drugs.
Dealing in harder drugs, running guns, selling "tax-free" cigarettes and booze, theft, protection rackets, all sorts of stuff.
Maybe drugs shouldn't be illegal, but you're fooling yourself if you're thinking that it's drug policy alone that's responsible for the whole criminal enterprise supplying drugs, and you're fooling yourself if you think that if you legalize all victimless crimes, the criminals will all magically transform into upstanding citizens.
Before you trot out Al Capone and prohibition, I'll remind you there were plenty of social ills before prohibition, perpetrated by the same cast of characters. Prohibition made some of them into folk heroes, but it did not create them or organized crime from zero.
So long as there's a single law on the books that makes it possible to gain wealth or power from disobeying it, there will be criminality, and so long as there is criminality, there will be organized crime and it will find violent criminals to employ.
Is anyone else concerned with
Is anyone else concerned with how easy these guys are pleading guilty? I’m suspicious they are ok with going to jail so they can recruit there and run their operation all under the protection of the state.
But, More Likely ...
... Is that
yep.
see my comment above.
the people making the laws are dumb. we need millennials in office.
It's also possible that they could have agreed to deportation
as an alternative to prison.
Doubtful
Even under Obama, deportation was never an alternative to prison. Most of these guys will serve their sentences and then be deported (assumining their native countries will take them).