01-27-2010, 07:24 PM
I wonder how many gang members were specifically taken from Waukegan. And when they will come back for more?
Dozen suburban gang suspects set for deportation
By Ted Cox | Daily Herald Staff
Published: 1/27/2010 12:55 PM | Updated: 1/27/2010 5:28 PM
Federal agents and local police departments have arrested a dozen suspected gang members across the suburbs and targeted them for deportation in recent days as part of a nationwide operation called Project Big Freeze.
Among those was Jose Armando Hernandez-Morales, 31, arrested last week at his home in Hanover Park and charged with illegal re-entry after being deported to Mexico in 2003 following a prison stint for second-degree murder.
The operation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with local help from the Carpentersville, Streamwood and Hanover Park police departments. It has produced 476 arrests nationwide, including 12 last week in the Chicago suburbs.
"Street gangs pose a growing public-safety threat to communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan area," said Gary Hartwig, special agent in charge of ICE's Chicago Office of Investigations. "ICE uses all our law-enforcement tools to target and dismantle street gangs with ties to drug-trafficking organizations. ICE works with our law-enforcement partners to dismantle these criminal organizations and help protect our communities."
Three were arrested in Streamwood, two in Vernon Hills, and other arrests were made in Algonquin, Carpentersville, Elgin, Palatine, Schaumburg and Waukegan.
An ICE spokeswoman said the agency would not release the names of the other 11 arrested because the charges against them were administrative and not criminal immigration violations. Yet all had "extensive criminal histories," and 11 of the 12 had gang affiliations, authorities said. One was Ecuadorean and the others were Mexican nationals.
Eight were in the United States illegally. Four were lawful permanent residents whose criminals convictions make them eligible for deportation.
ICE will seek deportation against all, although Hernandez-Morales faces a possible 20-year prison term on felony charges of illegal re-entry before he too would be deported.
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Dozen suburban gang suspects set for deportation
By Ted Cox | Daily Herald Staff
Published: 1/27/2010 12:55 PM | Updated: 1/27/2010 5:28 PM
Federal agents and local police departments have arrested a dozen suspected gang members across the suburbs and targeted them for deportation in recent days as part of a nationwide operation called Project Big Freeze.
Among those was Jose Armando Hernandez-Morales, 31, arrested last week at his home in Hanover Park and charged with illegal re-entry after being deported to Mexico in 2003 following a prison stint for second-degree murder.
The operation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with local help from the Carpentersville, Streamwood and Hanover Park police departments. It has produced 476 arrests nationwide, including 12 last week in the Chicago suburbs.
"Street gangs pose a growing public-safety threat to communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan area," said Gary Hartwig, special agent in charge of ICE's Chicago Office of Investigations. "ICE uses all our law-enforcement tools to target and dismantle street gangs with ties to drug-trafficking organizations. ICE works with our law-enforcement partners to dismantle these criminal organizations and help protect our communities."
Three were arrested in Streamwood, two in Vernon Hills, and other arrests were made in Algonquin, Carpentersville, Elgin, Palatine, Schaumburg and Waukegan.
An ICE spokeswoman said the agency would not release the names of the other 11 arrested because the charges against them were administrative and not criminal immigration violations. Yet all had "extensive criminal histories," and 11 of the 12 had gang affiliations, authorities said. One was Ecuadorean and the others were Mexican nationals.
Eight were in the United States illegally. Four were lawful permanent residents whose criminals convictions make them eligible for deportation.
ICE will seek deportation against all, although Hernandez-Morales faces a possible 20-year prison term on felony charges of illegal re-entry before he too would be deported.
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