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The Baltimore Sun January 25, 2024 at 8:16 p.m.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A federal plea agreement from January 2024 outlines how gang members used a Safe Streets location as a “clubhouse,” storing guns and drugs at the site and plotting hits on rival gang members. Tyrell Jeffries pleaded guilty to federal racketeering conspiracy in January 2024 stemming from a years-long investigation involving several Black…

Marquella Marshall and Marsha Delacruz were sentenced in federal court today to 180 months and 48 months in prison, respectively, for their parts in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in San Diego jails. According to court records, Marshall, a Texas resident who previously lived in San Diego, is an Eastside San Diego street gang…

A new report claims a gang-related list that D.C. police maintains is unreliable and may make life harder for innocent people. “There are six criteria on how you get on the DC Gang Database, and they are not based off criminality,” said Carlos Andino, lead author of the report and associate counsel at the Washington…

From inside the Maricopa County Jail, one of the nation’s largest, Frank Marcell sees straight into the future…and the view isn’t pretty. Among the trends he believes have become “more fully corroborated” in the last several months are these: Understanding the full impact of these trends and how they affect law enforcement, Marcell says, begins…

The thwarting of inmate plans for escape, drug trafficking, gang activity or assaults does not occur by chance. It’s no secret to any officer that drug cartels, gangs and other forms of organized crime are alive and well in many of our nation’s jails and prisons. The flourishing drug trade in the United States has…

Five key factors make up the mission of security threat group intelligence gathering operations in a correctional setting. n the first article in this series, I discussed the reasons why intelligence gathering in jails and prisons is needed: the growing number of inmates with ties to drug cartels, gangs, extremist groups and other security threat…

When analyzed in abstract terms, the intelligence process sounds vague, complicated and difficult to execute. This need not be the case. In the first article in this series, we examined the “why” of security threat group intelligence operations in jails, and in the second article, we defined the “what”—the mission and process. To come full…