[Breitbart] A Chilean court in the northern province of Arica issued prison sentences of roughly 560 years against 34 members of Los Gallegos on Thursday, a local “armed wing” of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization.
The convicted men, 31 Venezuelan nationals and three Chileans, were found guilty of multiple charges ranging from illicit association, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, kidnapping, and homicide to others. The sentence, which concluded nearly an entire year’s worth of trial proceedings, was reportedly read in a hearing without access to the press and under strong security measures.
The Chilean public prosecutor’s office described the trial process as “historic” in a Thursday press statement and informed that one of the men was given a life sentence for committing two homicides in addition to a 16-year sentence for the crimes of robbery with intimidation and illicit association.
Three men, the prosecutor’s office further explained, were given sentences totaling 44, 39, and 32 years for various offences, while the remainder were given prison sentences ranging from 541 days to 20 years.
The prosecutor’s office stated that the trial was considered one of the “most relevant at the national level in the fight against transnational organized crime due” to the number of defendants and the crimes investigated. The trial featured more than 35 witnesses, including an undercover agent who infiltrated the group, as well as more than 100 wiretapped telephone recordings, videos, and analysis of the gang’s own accounting notebooks.
The investigation determined that Los Gallegos established itself in Arica in three phases and deemed the region a place to commit various crimes, from which they were able to spread to other areas of Chile. Additionally, Chilean prosecutors were able to link Los Gallegos to Tren de Aragua, with most of the Venezuelan defendants sharing “identity or family ties,” and committing crimes according to what they called as “the cause.”
Like most high-profile Venezuelan gangs, Tren de Aragua operates under a fiefdom-esque system known as Pranato (“Pranate”) that features its own lexicon and set of rules. Under a Pranato system, “the cause” is the name given to a tithe or contribution that gang members give to their respective criminal organization.
“This is a strong blow to organized crime, but we must not lower our arms. The entire state apparatus must unite and intensify the fight against these criminal phenomena,” Chilean Regional Prosecutor Mario Carrera said.
Carrera told local outlets on Thursday that Arica’s regional prosecutor’s office is requesting 12 extradition orders from the United States, Colombia, and Peru against other individuals linked to the group, and stated that “whoever commits acts such as those committed in this case, serious crimes, will be prosecuted, not only in national territory, but also in the place where they are found.”
Carrera spoke with the local radio station ADN on Friday morning and expressed his satisfaction with the sentences, which the prosecutor described as the “closing of a cycle.”
“Let’s remember everything that happened to us in this case from day one. From how the problem caught us, from how we had to learn who the Tren de Aragua was,” Carrera said. “It was necessary to adapt and work with different institutions, including some authorities that at the beginning were not, let’s say, in line with what we were experiencing in the region.”
Reports published in May 2024 indicated that Los Gallegos had established its base of operations in Cerro Chuño, a precarious shantytown in Arica with no state presence. Local authorities found the bodies of three men buried under cement in the area; investigations later determined that the men had been buried alive after being tortured by the gang.
The Chilean newspaper La Tercera reported on Thursday that a separate trial will begin on Tuesday, March 12, against 12 other Tren de Aragua members — including Hernán “Satan” Landaeta Garlotti, one of the gang’s main hitmen, and Carlos “Estrella” González Vaca, who served as a personal security escort of Héctor “The Child” Guerrero, Tren de Aragua’s founder and leader.
González Vaca was also in charge of Tren de Aragua’s international operations at the Chilean-Bolivian border and directly reported to Guerrero, who was “imprisoned” at the Tocorón prison, located in Aragua, Venezuela. Guerrero’s whereabouts remain unknown since September 2023 after he seemingly disappeared hours before Venezuela’s socialist regime “raided” Tocorón, which served as Tren de Aragua’s main headquarters.
La Tercera detailed that the Tren de Aragua cell under González Vaca’s control engaged in the smuggling of migrants, human trafficking for sexual exploitation, and ketamine trafficking. The two men face multiple charges of kidnapping with homicide, aggravated and extortive kidnapping, extortive threats, robbery with intimidation, trafficking in persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation, drug trafficking and repeated smuggling of migrants, and illicit association.
Local prosecutors are requesting two life sentences, a separate life sentence, and 125 years of imprisonment.
The upcoming trial will be telematic “due to the dangerousness of the accused.” Chilean prosecutor Trinidad Steinert explained to La Tercera that the idea is to “avoid any possibility of the accused escaping or any attempt against those who will testify.”
“Therefore, victims and civilian and police witnesses will testify online, and defendants, prosecutors and prosecuting attorneys will also be connected telematically,” Steinert said.
The AUE group translates into United Criminal Prisoners.
A prison gang, presumably with a nexus to local organized crime.
[KavkazUzel] The convicts were found guilty of participating in AUE and received sentences ranging from three and a half to seven years in prison.
The court established that one of the convicted persons created a separate group of the extremist association "Arestantskogo ugol'nogo edinstva" (AUE). In order to establish his criminal influence on the territory of Karachay-Cherkessia, he recruited six local residents into the group and assigned each of them a role and functional responsibilities.
The Khabez District Court found the defendants guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization and extortion (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code and Parts 1 and 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code of Russia. "They were sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from three-three years and six months to seven years in a general regime penal colony," Interfax writes, citing the press service of the republic's courts.
Each defendant was also given an additional punishment in the form of a one-year ban on participating in public associations, as well as a one-year restriction of freedom, the press service added.
Earlier, the " Caucasian Knot " wrote that in early February in Zheleznovodsk a local resident was sentenced to one and a half years in a maximum security penal colony for tattoos with the AUE symbol.
In January, a court in Sochi fined a local resident, finding that a photo on a social network with an eight-pointed star on a cake he made promoted the AUE* movement.
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[KavkazUzel] All those convicted in the airport case, sentenced in early March by the Kirov District Court, pleaded guilty in order to receive more lenient sentences, and the defense decided to appeal the sentences. The courts' decisions in the airport case are practically identical, human rights activists emphasized.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", in October the Kirov District Court in Stavropol Krai began considering the case of Maksud Shcheikhgasanov, Ismail Ibakov, Shamil Mirzabekov, Magomed Khalilbegov and Rabadan Rabadanov, accused of involvement in the riots at the Makhachkala airport. Ibakov's lawyer stated that his client partially admitted guilt. The court sentenced them to terms ranging from eight years to nine years and four months.
According to investigators, by January 16, 28 criminal cases against 135 people accused of participating in the riots at the Makhachkala airport had been sent to court. Another seven people, including three alleged organizers of the riots, were put on the wanted list. In February 2024, relatives of the accused appealed to Putin with a request for leniency.
The lawyers of those convicted in the airport case, whose sentence was handed down in the Kirov District Court, will file appeals, said lawyer Bashir Abdurakhmanov, who defended Ismail Ibakov. "All the convicts have decided to challenge the sentence," he told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
By the end of the trial, all the defendants had pleaded guilty, he said. "There was information that if you don't plead guilty, you're given a harsher punishment. That's why everyone chose to plead guilty," the lawyer said.
Among those who admit guilt during the trial, there is a special category of people: those who did not commit a crime, internally disagree with it, but are forced to admit guilt, said lawyer Kaloy Akhilgov. "Forced because they are not ready to sit in prison/colony for a term twice as long as they can get for confessing. Forced because they understand that not admitting and defending their truth in court is fraught with a much harsher conviction than for confessing. Forced because the system is such that if you end up in a pretrial detention center, the probability of acquittal tends to zero. And these people are not ready to sit for an idea, for principles, because their time is more valuable to them than principles," he wrote on his Telegram channel on March 3.
Abdurakhmanov also said that he had filed an appeal against the sentence of Makhmud Dzhavatkhanov, convicted in the airport case by the Oktyabrsky District Court of Stavropol Krai. "But the date for the hearing has not yet been set," he said.
Chairman of the Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission Shamil Khadulaev noted that sentences of 8-10 years in prison have become common for those convicted in the airport case. "Everything is being done as if from a carbon copy," he told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The head of the Sova Research Center*, Alexander Verkhovsky, noted that if the events at the Uytash airport themselves fall under the definition of riots motivated by national hatred, the plot of the case against all defendants is the same, although the charges against individuals must be individual.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Authorities have arrested a suspect accused of launching several Molotov cocktailing and shooting attacks on a Tesla dealership in Salem, Oregon. Adam Matthew Lansky, 41, of Salem, was taken into custody on Tuesday and has been arraigned on federal felony charges. The defendant is a far-left Death Eater LGBTQ activist who identifies as transgender. Another one? One could be excused for thinking there's a pattern..
Lansky has been charged with unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm (destructive device) and was remanded to custody Wednesday until further court proceedings, according to a blurb from the US Department of Justice for the District of Oregon. He was apprehended in Salem without incident after authorities linked him to reports that an individual had been throwing Molotov cocktails and shooting up the Tesla dealership on two separate occasions.
According to court documents, Lansky allegedly launched the first attack on January 20, 2025, the day of President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... 's inauguration. He was reportedly captured on surveillance video footage throwing Molotov cocktails that "struck a dealership building and several vehicles."
"The subject walked between the building and the vehicles parked in front of it, then pulled out a bag and started lighting an object on fire," court documents state. "The subject threw the object at a red Tesla SUV parked in front of the building, which started to catch fire, and then threw an object through the showroom window. The subject proceeded to throw three or four more objects at other vehicles parked in front of the building."
Lansky had been concealing his identity behind a black facial covering and what looked to be a black chador at the time of the attack, according to stills from video surveillance included in court documents.
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He'll be out on bail...probably before I finish posting this. The left has no serious interest in law enforcement.
[NYPOST] An illegal Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n migrant who allegedly raped his boss's 14-year-old daughter while he was living in the family's basement in Colorado only spent eight days in jail, forcing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to hunt him down on the streets, The Post has learned.
Jesus Alberto Pereira Castillo, 20, posted his $5,000 bond on Nov. 27, just eight days after he was arrested, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said. ICE had filed a detainer with the sheriff's office while he was still in jug, but that request was ignored.
The feds then had to search for him in the community and successfully collared him at a later undisclosed date, Homeland Security sources revealed. He was in ICE custody by December, according to court documents.
Castillo, who is being detained in an ICE detention center in Denver and has a deportation order from an immigration judge, will likely be flown straight back to Venezuela after the Trump administration resumed deportation flights to the country.
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Jesus Alberto Pereira Castillo, 20, posted his $5,000 bond on Nov. 27, just eight days after he was arrested, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said. ICE had filed a detainer with the sheriff's office while he was still in jug, but that request was ignored.
There should be criminal charges against the Sheriff's office.
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Whom ever set the bail at $5,000 for Rape, and refused to notify ICE. Each of them needs to spend 8 nights in jail with a bunch of arrested Trannies.
Then face Federal Charges of Aiding and Betting for releasing him despite a Federal issued detaining order.
Now with that said.
Couldn't ICE have taken his ass right then and there, and/or placed a GPS tracking device on him?
Pakistani cleric Mufti Waheedullah Darwesh, a resident of Landi Kotal, Khyber District of KP province, says that during the recent border clashes with Pakistani security forces, the Afghan Taliban struck a mosque at the Torkham border with heavy artillery shelling, which resulted… pic.twitter.com/MPeP5TAMjL
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No, I'm being serious here. For instance, do you know the "correct and respectful manner" for disposal of a United States flag? Burning.
(I'm betting most demonstrators are unaware of this.)
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^The flag is supposed to be burned RESPECTFULLY.
As cease-fire talks stall, Israel is ramping up pressure on Hamas with a gradual escalation strategy—blocking supplies, cutting power. Israel could turn a campaign of airstrikes and tactical raids on Hamas if other measures failed.… pic.twitter.com/YsvqLKhP6s
Syrian authorities arrest the retired general, accused of orchestrating high-profile assassinations, including the 1977 killing of Lebanese leader Kamal Jumblatt. #Syriahttps://t.co/SCcRBjysil
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 7, 2025
The Internal Security Agency of the Syrian caretaker government announced on Thursday evening the arrest of retired Major General Ibrahim Huweija, the former head of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Directorate, who is accused of orchestrating multiple liquidations during the rule of former President Hafez al-Assad, in the coastal city of Jableh.
According to the official Syrian news agency ... and if you can't believe the Official Syrian News Agency who can you believe? SANA, a source within the General Security Administration confirmed the arrest, stating: "The criminal Major General Ibrahim Huweija, former head of Syrian Air Force Intelligence from 1987 to 2002, has been detained in the city of Jableh."
Huweija is accused of being involved in "hundreds of liquidations" under the Assad family’s rule, including the 1977 liquidation of Lebanese Druze leader Kamal Jumblat. Reports indicate that Jumblat’s vehicle was intercepted in the town of Baakline, where he was shot and killed.
During a 2015 hearing before the Special Tribunal for Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , Kamal Jumblat’s son, Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... , testified that the Syrian intelligence office in Beirut—under Huweija’s authority—was responsible for his father’s liquidation.
Born in the village of Ain Shaqaq in the countryside of Jableh in Latakia Governorate, Huweija hails from a region close to Beit Yashout, the hometown of Major General Mohammed al-Khouli, the first director of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Directorate.
Huweija began his military career in the 1970s and later became one of Syria’s most influential intelligence officers.
In 1987, he was appointed as head of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate, succeeding al-Khouli. He remained in the position until 2002, when he was dismissed by President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... .
A landmine blast in #Hasakah Governorate, #NE_Syria, injures a 27-year-old civilian, as he requires a corrective amputation and has multiple shrapnel wounds.https://t.co/5iHX3X02Wa
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 7, 2025
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Updates from NPA and the Times of Israel at 7:50 a.m. ET:
Over 250 people were killed in violent clashes between Syrian security forces and armed groups in the coastal areas of #Syria. Reports of massacres, executions, and widespread unrest raise concerns about escalating tensions. https://t.co/aB7uSH9NCm
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 8, 2025
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor of unclear funding, reports that “311 Alawite civilians were killed in the coastal region… by security forces and allied groups” since the clashes began on Thursday, bringing the overall death toll to 524 people, including 213 security personnel and militants.
Yesterday, Defense Minister Israel Katz hit out at Syria’s Islamist rulers, calling the country’s new president an al-Qaeda terrorist. His comments came after the reports of the executions.
“[Abu Mohammed] al-Julani switched his robe for a suit and presented a moderate face,” Katz said in a statement, using the nom de guerre of interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. “Now he’s taken off the mask and exposed his true face: A jihadist terrorist of the al-Qaeda school who is committing horrifying acts against a civilian population.”
“Israel will defend itself against any threat from Syria,” Katz added, while vowing the military would continue to occupy a buffer zone along the border and keep working to keep southern Syria demilitarized.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] Yesterday, the Latakia uprising began, which was provoked by the terror of HTS against the Alawites and Shiites.
"The Military Council for the Liberation of Syria called for the overthrow of HTS.
UPRISING IN LATAKIA
"After months of injustice, sectarian violence, looting, oppression and the seizure of Syrian lands by external aggressors, the Military Council for the Liberation of Syria has been established.
1. The Military Council for the Liberation of Syria has set itself the following goals:
2. Liberation of the entire territory of Syria from the occupiers and terrorist forces.
3. Overthrow of the HTS regime and dismantling its repressive sectarian apparatus.
4. Protecting the lives and property of all Syrians.
5. Restoring state institutions on a national and democratic basis.
6. Preparing for the return of refugees.
7. Establishing a single sovereign state consisting of all sects and nationalities."
In general, this is a bid for a new round of civil war, coupled with the ongoing war of the Turks against the Kurds and the Israeli-supported fragmentation of southern Syria, with the creation of a Druze autonomy under an Israeli protectorate.
As in the case of the overthrow of Gaddafi, in Syria it will be established through experience that no one except the "dictator" is capable of maintaining the integrity of Syria in the conditions of the internationalization of the civil war.
P.S. The total number of those killed on both sides by morning exceeded a hundred. The fighting continues, HTS is transferring reinforcements from other provinces.
The prospects of the rebels without external support seem dubious.
More from Boris Rozhin Freedom from dictatorship
Already familiar pictures of Syria free from dictatorship. Without Assad, it immediately became better.
In retaliation for the losses in the night battles in Latakia, the HTS militants are taking it out on civilians. In essence, there are extrajudicial executions of the civilian population. It goes without saying that the civil war in Syria will continue for a long time.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
