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18th Street Gang
18th Street graffiti
Founded
1960s[1]
Founding location
Los Angeles, California, United States[2]
Years active
1960s–present
Territory
United States, Mexico, Central America, Canada[3]
Ethnicity
Mexicans, Salvadorans, Hondurans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Costa Ricans
Membership (est.)
30,000–50,000[2]
Activities
Drug trafficking, prostitution, extortion, kidnapping, robbery, assault, homicide, battery[2]
Allies
Mexican Mafia[4]
Other Sureños gangs[5]
Rivals
Avenues[6]
Mara Salvatrucha[7]
Playboys[8]
Santa Monica 13[9]
Temple Street[10]
Vineland Boys[11]
The 18th Street Gang, also known as Calle 18, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America,[1][12][13][14] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles. It is one of the largest transnational criminal gangs in Los Angeles, with 30,000-50,000 members between the United States, Mexico, and Central America and is also allied with the Mexican Mafia, another US-based crime organization.[citation needed] A United States Department of Justice report featured the following statement regarding 18th Street and rival gang MS-13, "These two gangs have turned the Central American northern triangle into the area with the highest homicide rate in the world."[15]
^ abRibando, C. (2005). "Gangs in Central America" (PDF). U.S. Department of States, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division. Archived March 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ abcCriminal Street Gangs justice.gov (May 12, 2015) Archived June 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
^"Barrio 18". www.insightcrime.org. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017. Archived November 25, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
^An Inside Look at 18th St.'s Menace Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times (November 17, 1996)
^"Barrio 18".
^The Avenues: Highland Park Gang KCET (November 14, 2011)
^Rival deadly gangs share the same prison cell: A look at El Salvador's controversial move Roberto Valencia and Noticias Telemundo, NBC News (May 22, 2020)
^People v. Delgado casetext.com (August 31, 2016)
^People v. Vasquez Court Listener (April 17, 2014)
^People v. Gaytan casetext.com (October 14, 2011)
^The Vineland Boys Gang Richard Valdemar, policemag.com (August 21, 2007)
^Lynch, Tristam W. (2008). The evolution of modern Central American street gangs and the political violence they present: Case studies of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras (MA thesis). University of South Florida. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015.
^"HSI dismantles '18th street' gang's fraudulent document ring". U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 2011. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
^Berlin, D.; Brizius, E.; Bump, M.; Garshelis, D.; Khonsari, N.; Pinheiro, E.; Rhudy, K.; Smith, J. (2007). "Between the border and the street: A comparative look at gang reduction policies and migration in the United States and Guatemala. Informally published manuscript, Georgetown University Law Center, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA".
^O'Reilly, Andrew (4 August 2017). "MS-13 isn't the only homicidal street gang in town - meet Barrio 18". Fox News. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
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