Newburgh, NY – Local, state and federal authorities raided dozens of homes here early on Thursday in a major show of force against the Bloods and the Latin Kings street gangs, whose members have wreaked havoc in this small, troubled city along the Hudson River.
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More than 300 officers and agents with the F.B.I.; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and the local and state police began gathering before dawn in a former National Guard armory here. By 6 a.m., heavily armed F.B.I. SWAT teams were breaking through doors across the city.
A federal indictment is expected to be unsealed later Thursday, naming 60 suspected Bloods members and 18 members of the Latin Kings on a range of drug charges. Of those named in the indictment, 34 were already in federal custody, five were picked up Wednesday night and 18 were arrested in the early morning raids, the authorities said.
“Nothing this size has been tried with this many agents in the region,” James Gagliano, the supervisory agent in charge of the region, who has headed the investigation, told the small army of agents as they prepared to roll out.
“Be careful out there,” he added. “No blue on blue.”
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stupid to post the guys name….now thell be after himm
Let’s boycott the fbi and border control. Why are they targeting illegals. Don’t they realize that the nyc council, and the city of la doesn’t allow this?