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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

San Diego: Tijuana motorcycle gang "Los Hooligans" indicted in sophisticated vehicle theft operation

"Los Hooligans" indicted in sophisticated vehicle theft operation

A federal indictment unsealed today named 9 members of a Tijuana based motorcycle gang, allegedly responsible for hundreds of car thefts over the last few years.  Los Hooligans have a relatively low profile in the hierarchy of San Diego motorcycle gangs and clubs, groups like the Hells Angel's and Mongols have long been the subject of federal cases, mainly racketeering, crystal meth and heroin trafficking, and violent crimes.  

San Diego, given it's proximity to the border, it's history with crystal meth, has long been a hub of vehicle theft, organize d and unorganized.  A substantial amount is generally traced to Tijuana, where the cars are stripped, or given new plates, new VIN numbers, and re sold, sometimes to organized crime groups, who prefer suburbans and jeeps.  The group is connected to Spring Valley, which has long been tied to car theft, and motorcycle clubs. 

This marks the first time a Tijuana based motorcycle gang has been subject of a major federal case.  The indictment is not as far reaching in it's targeting of Los Hooligans, and focuses on what seems to be their main criminal endeavor, the theft and subsequent sale of the cars, and their parts.  The cars were stolen from dozens of neighborhoods in San Diego, from Barrio Logan, to Rancho Santa Fe, and targeted a particular brand of jeep in the summer of 2014. 

Jeep Wranglers were being stolen at an unusually high rate, and always without triggering an alarm, or forcing entry, by breaking the glass.  Regional Auto Theft Task Force, RATTF, a conglomerate of local and federal law enforcement officials, including Homeland Security Investigations, and the San Diego District Attorney's Office, as well as the FBI, and San Diego Sheriff's Department were the primary investigators.  

While reviewing surveillance footage from a theft in Rancho Santa Fe in September 2014, investigators saw three men disabling the car's alarm and entering using a key, then starting the car with a handheld electronic device.  The investigators worked back through 20 other similar thefts, and found that duplicate keys had been ordered from Chrysler, through a dealership in Cabo San Lucas, the cars's owners were unaware.  

Assumedly, through a connection to the dealership, Los Hooligans purchased or otherwise gained access to the keys, after carefully selecting the cars for theft.  Then the cars were stolen, without much of a trace, and sold wholesale in Tijuana, or stripped down for parts.  

Los Hooligans are not connected via these indictments to any acts of violence or drug trafficking, tying them to Tijuana based cartels, or cells.  They are named as an organization in their own right, with the capacity to traffic, sell, transport, and facilitate large scale vehicle theft.  They are tied to over 150 thefts in the indictment.

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2015/08/gunmen-attack-mortuary-in-tijuana-2.html 

In August 2015, gunmen stormed a funeral home during a wake, and executed two individuals, and shot 7 others.  It was reported by Zeta Tijuana that the two killed were members of a Tijuana based motorcycle club in Colonia Independencia, who rivals Los Hooligans.  Zeta reports Los Hooligans were said to be responsible for the attack.  Eye witnesses to the killings tied members of Los Hooligans to the scene.

The defendants face a single count of Conspiracy to commit Transportation of Stolen Vehicles in Foreign Commerce, the maximum sentence is 5 years in prison.  


Sources: US Attorney's Office




58 comments:

  1. I bitch slapped two of these puss boys at a bar on El Cajon Blvd. As I was coming out the bar they disrespected my friend.

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    1. of course you did

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    2. I doubt these guys hang out at gay bars.

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    3. @6:57 lmao but i agree

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    4. There are a lot of Big Gay Bikers, and they do visit Gay Bars all the time, cruising, on their poker runs, or just dealing their drugs, be aware, what you don't know may hurt you.
      There are even 'bikers for trump' promising violence to those that might want to harm or badmouth their "Great Leader" while they are around, they are on the Internet too.
      --I hope these Hooligans wear their pink laces properly...
      "Agujetas de Color de Rosa" con Los Hooligans/youtube.

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  2. Christian Lopez PalafoxMay 30, 2017 at 5:20 PM

    RIP Manny Noriega

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  3. A few years ago on 1 of my motorcycling trips down Baja I ran into a motorcycle club (or gang) in La Paz from Tijuana.I didn't catch their name,there was maybe 6 of them and 1 was a state policeman.They didn't drive Harleys.Most 1%er's outlaw motorcycle gangs will only drive Harleys but I don't know if that applies to Mexico as motorcycles are somewhat limited there.

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    1. 1% bikers are tweaker and heroin addicted criminals mostly white trash or latino and even black biker gangs have them. Shitbags with no military background trying to be tough. The Village People LOL

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    2. Ventura who was governer of Nevada was running with the Mongols while at San Diego base. He's a navy seal

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    3. @1;03PM Hey amigo, Ventura was governor of Minnesota, not Nevada.

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    4. Thanks DD, your right on that. I always thought it was Nevada for some reason

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    5. Jesse Ventura a Navy Seal, went through waterboarding, voluntarily, not because he was crazy, but as part of his training, for his country, and has told DICK CHENEY that "WATERBOARDING IS TORTURE", DICK "the dirty" ain't ever answered Jesse Ventura.

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  4. Note an error occurred posting an unedited and incomplete comment. Please erase.
    This is quite interesting. A criminal practice with a big payout and a non- violent offense. Thousands of vehicles are stolen every year for sale overseas. Given the location of and the cartels relentless appetite for stolen vehicles for criminal activities. It was lucrative and promising for any criminal gangs.
    However let's be realistic here. Such sentencing guidelines will not be life long incarcerated.
    Theft is an ongoing business such as narcotics. But without the time if convicted.
    Nice article.

    E42

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    1. Car theft is no problem because the car and truck system can profit by putting new vehicles in the hands of the victim.
      However, everyone who pays insurance, pays more than if there were no thefts!

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  5. The Jeep brand is junk gringos and white wash people love these vehicles. The biker gangs should know that there is only room for one biker gang and that's the biker mice from Mars. Lol at biker gangs Eme is their daddy in The U.S even Hells Angels recruits half white half Hispanic nowadays

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    1. You are hilarious; i live in So Cal and almost as many Latino's driving Jeeps as i do driving Lincoln Navigators and Suburbans. And if you think Eme is the Red and White's daddy you are an idiot. So get in your Avalanche and go pick up some pallets.

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    2. just like dodge is junk

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    3. 240 got mad that Hells Angels aint shit to Eme. Comitt a crime in the U.S and end up in the pinta and you will realize that whites r outnumbered by mayates so they (aryans) have a loose alliance with Eme. Fuck your red and white mexicanamerican chicanos run the show get over it. Biker gang lol

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  6. In Acapulco this year, when you register your Mexican plated car they will hook it to the OBD 2 sensor.

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    1. Thats how they run their vin check

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  7. "Connected to Spring Valley?" I've lived in San Diego for over 25 years...No surprise here. Spring Valley is a dump.

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  8. Never heard of them...

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  9. Los Hooligans? Like football hooligans in Europe? LOL

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  10. Don't they (Mexicans) use vehicle alarming device inside their vehicle or vehicle tracking system ? There are even devices that can be fixed in vehicles which would turn off the vehicle in case of theft by sending a message from mobile. Those devices alerts on the given mobile numbers ? I guess these kind of devices are available from long back, why don't they make use of technolog. Are they not aware or is it because of non availability of such devices ?


    Thamizhan

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    1. Those devices can be easily disabled, sometimes in seconds.

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    2. Those gangs have that much tech knowledge? I don't think so, because of less education and hunger of money they maybe getting into crime activities. Not all those robbers are tech geeks I guess.

      Thamizhan

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    3. I once knew a piasa that had a very low tech way of disabling those devices.

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    4. 3:49 you'd be surprised how many educated and intelligent people are involved in criminal activities. Degrees don't = good job with good pay

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    5. @942 so true I have a bachelor's degree in business and currently work at Macy's what people don't know is unlike the 80s and 90s a lot of people have degrees too many competition for so little high paying jobs

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    6. If illeterate honkys can become prezident, believe me, illeterate mexicans.like me can comment here and steal cars with the best technology, it may take a piece of bubble gum and the wrapper, and the car key of course, but some giniuses just use a piece of wire or two.

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    7. 8:02 since you are at MACY'S already, make it official and work for the real chinese, they are ready to invest millions of dollars with worthy people, politics, real estate, dirty tricks, bar-b-q restaurants, wharehiuses, newslalers, radio and tv, buffet restourants...just present your plan or they will make it for you.

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  11. vehicle theft is 90's story, mang

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  12. insurance for these ranglers is crazy though. think about it

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  13. The Mongols mc is ruthless

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  14. Hooligans...a Mexican biker gang operating in TJ, named after the Irish. Uugh.

    Would a French gang name themselves Los Cholos?

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    1. HA HA good one, but mexican gang names are corny, or how about “las fresas“ (strawberries) or “cafeteros“ or “los viagaras“

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    2. Maybe not, but a white man will start a Mexican food chain, name it chipotle, and not even use it as an ingredient.

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    3. 10:01 it's a small world and people like to mimic other people. Seen it with my own eyes in different parts of the world
      ..

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    4. It's just a name man, big deal! It's not like they are acting like a different race, well maybe white since they were the first bikers.

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    5. Mexican Lecheros were the first bikers, matter of fack still are, have you seen their bikes and how they keep and ride them?
      They even call their women "borregas", not to miss the old country, but their "Secret Love" is las burras pardas 4ever.

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    6. Los Locos del Ritmo emigrated to califas and became Los Locos,
      You can play them in you tube, La Chica Alborotada, Tus Ojos, or Viva Zapata, en ingles.

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  15. In Colon, in Panama there are freighters coming aboard daily to pickup these stolen vehcles and prepared to ship to Europe. "Las Ruedas" is a gang of thieves that are affiliated with the Jalisco Cartel and Abigael González Valencia that steal vehicles from the US an ship them all around the world. Mis jefes primos vecinos vecinos tío has told me about it.

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  16. Love borderlands beat give me place to vent.i know the cartels r gangs, but the PRI government protected them

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  17. Won't the driverless car eliminate all these thefts sometime in the future?

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    1. They will find a way to disable the GPS system and drive off with it

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    2. Les vamos a robar las llantas a los pinchis "driverless" cars.
      There are a lot of Cuban technicians that know how to make doo with very little, poo, and we are all friends again!
      It may take plugging their mufflers to stop technology dead, who can be around plugged?

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  18. Love the dealership collusion. Maybe time all car salesmen should be bonded.

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  19. 10:04pm
    You obviously didn't read the article.

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  20. Doubt it very much

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  21. dd lives in Mexico he knows the true Mexican,watch his ass fly to the US if anything goes wrong

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  22. @5:26PM Since I am still here, by implication you are saying everything is really going good in Mexico. Thanks for that reassurance. I sure feel safer now.

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  23. i would like to comment but if dd doesn't agree with my comment than it will be censored

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    1. 8:55 send dd a picshur with your comment, it may help or not, but he will have a harder time if he sees you are a real person and have some pitty on you.
      Your c may not be posted, but dd may be getting an educaishun from reading you, if you are so convinced of your 💩 poop, then it may make two of you 💩 💩 or three 💩 💩 💩

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  24. Dd what city in MX u stay at

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    1. dd es un carterista chilango en mexico city, le dicen
      "El Pickpockets"

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  25. 10:04 since you seem to hate "ALL OF MEXICO" and blame all the mexicans for the sins of a few, maybe you can explain how after the US spends more billions of dollars than all the other nations in the world put together, the world is still all so facked up and getting worse the more the US spends on "defense"...
    We are all anxiously awaiting for your wisdom that may be our salvation.
    maybe all it takes is a big tower lording the view from Calvary Mount?
    Or, God forbid, MOAB bombing mexico to the stone age or just bombing the Rio Grande to flood all of mexico and keep the mexicans in their place, Guatemala...

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  26. http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2015/08/gunmen-attack-mortuary-in-tijuana-2.html

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