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More than 3,800 suspected gang members charged in U.S. and Central America
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/09/30/More-than-3800-suspected-gang-members-charged-in-US-and-Central-America/3021506775170/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Sept. 30 (UPI) -- More than 3,800 suspected gang members were charged in an international operation targeting gangs in the United States and Central America, the U.S. Attorney General's Office said.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco on Friday shared the results of the six-month operation targeting members of violent street gangs MS-13 and Barrio 18, or 18th Street, initiated in March by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Attorneys General of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

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"We conducted simultaneous operations coordinated among all of our countries impacting the leadership structure of the gangs and with an emphasis on the gang cliques which are generating the most revenues and with the strongest transnational ties," Melendez Ruiz said.

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