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March 29th, 2016 
Awake Goy More than 1,100 suspected gang members – including more than 40 in Houston – have been arrested as part of a nationwide sweep aimed at disrupting transnational gangs.
Most of those arrested during the five-week operation dubbed “Project Shadowfire” were affiliated with such gangs as MS-13, Sureños, Norteños, Bloods and several prison-based gangs, officials said.
Enforcement actions occurred around the country, with the greatest activity taking place in the Los Angeles, San Juan, Atlanta, San Francisco, Houston, and El Paso areas.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations partnered with local law enforcement agencies for the sweep during February and March, which netted 1,133 arrests nationwide.
About 240 of the arrested individuals were foreign nationals, from 13 countries in Central America, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean.
In the Southern District of Texas, which stretches from the Houston area south to Laredo, 112 people were arrested with suspected ties to 26 gangs. A dozen people were charged with federal crimes; 100 with state charges, according to a press release describing the operation.
Forty-four of the suspects were arrested in Houston. Greg Palmore, an ICE spokesman, said that one of the most significant arrests here included an alleged MS-13 gang member accused of child molestation.
Investigators arrested an additional 68 alleged gang members in Corpus Christi, including two believed to be members of the Texas Syndicate accused of homicides, Palmore said.
Sean McElroy, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of Houston HSI, said agents and officers with ICE and partnering organizations focused on geographical hotspots and specific gangs in their efforts during the five-week surge.
“We basically went through and looked at “who’s worst of worst, and what do we need to get them off the street?” he said. “And how can we do that? Is it, ‘are we going to get them on a criminal charge?’ Some of them may be illegal aliens, where we can deport them, and others may just be surveillance, crime-of-opportunity type things.’”
One series of arrests led to a seizure of 17 kilograms of cocaine and helped thwart a major robbery, he said.
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