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NLR ○ Seniors are the only ones that can grant membership ○ Juniors can solicit membership The first gangs to associate with the colors red and blue ○ Norteno - color red ○ Sureno - color blue ○ Not the bloods and crips Texas Prison Gangs ○ Nuestra Familia, Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerilla Family are not transnational gangs, but nationally distributed ○ Mexican Mafia is transnational ■ Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras ■ Involved with the drug trade and cartel ○ Barrio Azteca - 21 or BA ■ Barrio Azteca (BA) was started in 1986 in the Coffield Unit of TDCJ by five street gang members from El Paso, Texas ■ All five had been members of the street gang X14 ■ Always recruited heavily from street gangs, mainly of street gang members locked down in the county jails ● Courting would start in the county jail ■ Transnational prison gang ● Diversity in recruitment ○ Gang members on both side of the border ■ BA initially grew to 35 members and currently has of over 1,500 members with most of them being from West Texas ■ Members are now being founded in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, and Mexico ■ BA was formed to unite El Paso street gang members who had been incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) ■ A new member must be sponsored by Sergeant or above, with the sponsor being responsible for teaching the recruit all BA rules ■ A Captain must approve the new member before he is accepted into the gang ■ Vertical structure gang ■ Outside the jails, the street gangs are used to traffic narcotics and conduct other business for the BA ■ The BA collects a 10% tax on all of the street gang profits ● Just like the California based Mexican Mafia ■ The intent and purpose of the Barrio Azteca is to protect and control their local environment through illegal activities ■ The Barrio Azteca has a very high propensity for violence Violence ○ Witness ○ giver/doer

○ victim _______________________________________________________ ● BA ○ Rivals: ■ Texas Syndicate ■ Aryan Brotherhood of Texas ■ Raza Unida ■ Black Guerilla Family ■ Nuestra Familia ○ Intent and purpose of the Barrio Azteca is to protect and control their local environment through illegal activities ○ BA has a very high propensity for violence ○ Gang boss arrested in consulate killings in Ciudad Juarez ○ Mexican authorities have arrested a leader of a binational prison gang for the mid-March killings of three people associated with the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez ○ Soldiers arrested the senior member of the Barrio Azteca gang in Juarez and turned him over to the state prosecutors ○ In separate incidents minutes apart on March 13, gunmen attacked two similar cars leaving a child’s birthday party in Juarez ○ They killed consulate employee Lesley Enriquez and her husband, Arthur Redelfs, who worked at the El Paso County jail ○ The couples’ infant daughter was unharmed in the back seat of the card ○ CAPO = leader ○ La quota = street tax ● Barrio Azteca ○ Closely allied with the Juarez Cartel, which has controlled smuggling routes and local street sales in the city, which borders El Paso, US, and Mexican officials say ○ It is also a transnational prison gang like the California based Mexican Mafia ○ Juarez Cartel and its allies in local street gangs have been locked in a deadly war with gangsters from northwest Mexico’s Sinaloa state for control of the city ○ Two years of fighting has killed some 4,600 people in the Juarez, a city of about 1.5 million ○ BA operates in 20 states and Mexico ○ The gang has grown to 3,000 to 3,500 members (2008) ○ Para-military leadership like the Nuestra Familia ○ Tiendas = drug dealers ○ Shakedown = protection money ○ *uses codes via a radio station requests* ○ Esquinas = gang associates ○ Padrino = gang sponsor ○ Huaraches = sandals = full membership ○ Soldiers -> sergeants -> lieutenants -> capos ○ Social Ranking

■ Pepsi Generation - new generation ■ Originals ■ Nationals ○ Call themselves Indians like Mexican Mafia calls themselves carnels ○ Calentata - severe beating ○ 1) Involved in: Human smuggling, kidnapping, robbery, murder for hire, arson, extortion, auto theft, assault burglary, and weapon violations ■ Nationally and transnational ○ The power base is El Paso and Juarez ___________________________________________________________________________ ● Hermandad de Pistoleros Latinos(HPL) - Mexican brothers with guns ○ Originally formed in the TDCJ in the mid-1980s ○ Reported throughout Texas ○ Laredo is the main power base for the gang ■ Laredo is where the world trade bridge from Mexico ○ In 1982, Texas prisoners Joe Mendoza and Alberto Rodriguez form the Hermandad de Pistoleros Latinos ○ In early 1985, an alliance is formed between HPL and the Mexikanemi. Both gangs attempt to destroy the Texas Syndicate in a 10-year prison gang war ■ Mexikanemi - Texas version of Mexican Mafia but not the same ○ The gang has been reported in Minnesota, Tennessee, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Montana, NY, North Carolina, North Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Kanas, Kentucky, and California ■ Currently in a total of over 29 states ○ National gang ○ Guns crossed signed ○ US population estimated over 1300 ○ Unknown how many members are in Mexico ○ HPL is a transnational prison gang ○ Involved in drug trafficking, home invasion robbery, human and arms trafficking, and assaults ○ Vertical paramilitary command and operation structure ■ Encargardo (affiliates) -> Soldier -> sergeant -> lieutenant -> captain -> major ■ The highest-ranking member is known as Llaveros (key holder) ○ Uses number 16 and 12 (P and L) ● Tango Blast ○ Texas prison gang ○ 14,000 strong ○ Largest prison gang in Texas ○ No blood in, blood out ○ No rules or hierarchy ○ Formed with the Texas Department of Corrections and Justice (TDCJ) in the early 1990s

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Did not follow traditional membership rules practiced by most prison gangs Some of the original members suggest the gang initially was a sibling gang formed under the Texas Syndicate ○ The tangos were supposed to do all the work for the TS prison gang ○ It has been suggested the Tangos formed as a result of the members getting tired of working for the TS and formed for protection against the remaining prison gangs like BA and the Texas Mexican Mafia ○ Crunk = wild, looking to fight ○ Rivals with Crips ○ Outnumber other prison gangs 4-1 ○ The gang’s membership is divided up by cities. Each clique will identify with particular city identifies, such as name, skyline, and/or area code ■ For example: ● 1) Houston - Houstone (713/281) H town ● 2) Austin - La Capricha (512) ATX ● 3) Dallas (214) D-town ● 4) Fort Worth - Foros or Foritos (817) ■ *These 4 cliques are known as the “four horsemen” or Puro Tango Blast (PTB)* ○ Busting = shooting ○ Crash dummies = fall guys ○ Other cliques: ■ San Antonio - San Anto/Orejones (210) ■ El Paso - Chuco or EPT (915) ■ West Texas - Weso or WTX ■ Corpus Christi - Corpitos/Charco (361) ■ Rio Grande Valley - Vallucos (956) ■ Together known as Tango _______________________________________________________________________ ● Tango Blast ○ Membership is usually voluntary and based on the geographical location the new member is from (before prison) ○ Younger and newer members are sometimes called the Pepsi generation ○ More criminal activity the members are involved in, refers to himself as ‘tango blast’ ○ Most members refer to each other as ‘tangos’ ○ Blasting is a term that refers to being involved in violent disruptive behaviors ○ Cora check = heart check ○ Jacket = rap sheet ○ Corazon = heart ○ They like to stay hidden in public ■ No flag, but wear sports gear from home towns ○ Requirements ■ Must be minimum of 18 months in prison

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No vertical structure Doesn't matter where you are from Social rank ● Tango blast = doing crimes ○ Can also be a four horseman to be called tango blast ● Tango = members ■ Jumped in ○ Street gang-style in prison ○ No written rules ○ Tangos use the internet to communicate __________________________________________________ ● As of 2011, there were no reported female prison gangs within the US ○ Females process info differently than men, may also look at violence differently ○ Females behave differently in custody ○ Pregnant females ● Juveniles in Prison ● No juvenile, Asian, or female prison gangs...