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… You are talking about people with skills in the drug trade, who are willing to do violence, acting as one unit,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Cottingham said. “You want to keep them from getting out of control.”
A 63-page affidavit with some details of the investigation was unsealed earlier this month after a federal judge sentenced 16 suspected gang members to prison. Nine of them have received sentences of at least 20 years.
Hause said it’s not clear whether the gang’s influence will continue to grow. Its ranks on the outside world are dependent on the release of members from Texas prisons, where the gang was formed in the 1980s to provide protection to those who join. Once outside, they deal in drugs, contract killings, prostitution, robbery, gambling and weapons. Its president, Heriberto Huerta, is serving life at a federal prison in Colorado but investigators believe he’s still able to give orders.

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Maxey disputes Huffington’s claim to Politico that the story was never ready for publication, and that there was no real story. The activist claims the publisher killed the story after Perry’s campaign hired famed libel lawyer Lin Wood, and the lawyer wrote a letter to the Huffington Post threatening to sue if the story was published.
Huffington denied that the lawyer’s letter had anything to do with her decision.
But, Maxey said, “Arianna Huffington told a bald-faced lie.”
No response has been received to an e-mail sent by the Dallas Voice to Huffington Post’s media relations department seeking comment on Maxey’s claim.
Maxey concedes a high-priced call boy who claimed to have engaged in sex with Perry and another man for hire in hotel rooms several times never went on the record, even though celebrity attorney Gloria Allred reportedly was signed on to represent him when the story hit. An affidavit signed by the prostitute — whom

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16 Texas Mexican Mafia members arrested
by ANDREW HORANSKY / KVUE News
kens5.com
Posted on December 13, 2011 at 6:59 PM
AUSTIN –  On Tuesday, 16 convicted felons stared back from a poster board at the Austin Police Department. Investigators say they were members of a gang called the Texas Mexican Mafia. With one exception, they were all U.S. citizens. All of their crimes were heinous.
“The gang was heavily involved with drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, prostitution, weapons trafficking and murder,” said Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo.
Acevedo said they were caught after a two-year investigation called “Operation Merecido.” It involved the FBI, local police, the Department of Public Safety, and the U.S. Attorney General’s office.
The investigation began after the gang had spread from San Antonio to Austin.
“They spread here under a strong leader,” FBI Special Agent Steve Hause said. He went on to say that leader was a man named Ruben Flores, who lived in Pflugerville.

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5) Waterloo Ice House: Austin is dotted with Waterloo Ice House locations, and the burgers-and-beers favorite isn’t about to leave airline passengers stranded without a cold one. Menu’s classic American, and diverse: catfish, soups, salads are on offer for dinner, plus full breakfasts of pancakes and more. A good choice if you’re not rushed and want a place to people-watch. [East Terminal, Gate 7.][Photo: Dan B. / Yelp]
Best Bets Outside Austin-Bergstrom International
(You’ll need at least three hours to get there, eat, and get back.)
1) El Meson: Time to hop in a cab and tell the driver to take you to one of Austin’s most authentic, most delicious taquerias. Unless he’s remarkably in the know and/or psychic, you’ll probably have to specify: El Meson. [5808 Burleson Road, 11 minutes from the airport.][Photo: El Meson]
2) The Landing Strip: We’re sure the Landing Strip has much to offer your liver in addition to, well, your eyes: the strip club is a Texas cultural icon. You know it from Varsity Blues. High-five Billy Bob and Mox if you see them. [745 Bastrop Highway, 11 minutes from the airport.]

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16 Texas Mexican Mafia members arrested
by Andrew Horansky / KVUE News
khou.com
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 8:41 AM
AUSTIN –  On Tuesday, 16 convicted felons stared back from a poster board at the Austin Police Department. Investigators say they were members of a gang called the Texas Mexican Mafia. With one exception, they were all U.S. citizens. All of their crimes were heinous.
“The gang was heavily involved with drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, prostitution, weapons trafficking and murder,” said Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo.
Acevedo said they were caught after a two-year investigation called “Operation Merecido.” It involved the FBI, local police, the Department of Public Safety, and the U.S. Attorney General’s office.
The investigation began after the gang had spread from San Antonio to Austin.
“They spread here under a strong leader,” FBI Special Agent Steve Hause said. He went on to say that leader was a man named Ruben Flores, who lived in Pflugerville.

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A Travis County jury Friday sentenced 23-year-old Jon Tyrell Banks to 23 years in prison for robbing and killing strip club patron Elmore Allen last year, according to Banks’ lawyer David Frank.
The jury Wednesday found Banks guilty of felony murder in the April 12, 2010, attack at a Southeast Austin apartment complex. Banks’ girlfriend, Jessica Krause-Patterson, also faces a murder charge in the case and will be tried at a later date.
The two went to trial together in June but it ended in a mistrial. After that trial, Banks turned down a plea bargain offer that included a 14-year sentence.
Allen went to the Hot Bodies all-nude club on Burleson Road on April 12, 2010, according to testimony at the June trial. Allen received private dances from several strippers, including Krause-Patterson, according to testimony.

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Community Briefing: Fire destroys East Austin club; murder conviction in strip club death
Updated: 10:55 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 Published: 10:35 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011
AUSTIN
New assistant chief named
Patrick Ockletree, a 27-year veteran of the Austin Police Department, was promoted on Wednesday to the rank of assistant chief. Ockletree replaces Assistant Chief John Hutto, who was named chief of the Fort Collins, Colo., Police Department in October.
Ockletree, who was born and raised in Austin, was promoted from the rank of commander, one of only two African Americans holding that rank in the department. He is the only African American assistant chief in the current administration.
“It’s an honor,” Ockletree said. “We’ve seen a lot of changes in the department and in the community, and I want to be a part of that.”
…
A Travis County jury on Wednesday found Jon Tyrell Banks guilty of felony murder in the death of a strip club patron last year.

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… What could possibly be the matter?  I asked her, not being really sure that she was alone, and safe to let in, especially with the pus on her face. It took a while to get the story out of her. It seems that she had told the guys at the bar that I was a dancer, and that I would be dancing that night, just to bust balls, meaning mine, but what she did not expect was that the few women in the bar that afternoon when I dropped her off , had taken her at her word. Within a few hours after I had left, the bar was full of women expecting to see a white guy shake his groove thing. This was not a large bar. There was no way  a female dancer could work in a place jammed with half lit women expecting a male stripper. They nearly tore the place to shreds. She looked pretty beat up. She never asked me for a ride to work after that.

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Crackdown comes for Texas Mexican Mafia
16 people arrested on federal drug charges
Updated: Tuesday, 13 Dec 2011, 6:42 PM CSTPublished : Tuesday, 13 Dec 2011, 9:27 AM CST
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin police teamed up with the FBI and several other law enforcement groups in a crackdown on the so-called Texas Mexican Mafia that led to the arrest of more than a dozen suspected members.
In all 17 were arrested during this three-year-long investigation. Most of the 17 had long criminal records, according to Austin’s Police Chief Art Acevedo.
“Drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, prostitution, weapons trafficking and murder, ” Acevdo said. 
The 17 are members of the military-style gang known as the Mexican Mafia. According to law enforcement, the Mafia is a prison gang with connections to the Mexican drug cartels with its roots in East Los Angeles. Locally, the mafia has a strong presence in San Antonio.

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16 Texas Mexican Mafia members arrested
by ANDREW HORANSKY / KVUE News
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Posted on December 13, 2011 at 6:20 PM
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AUSTIN –  On Tuesday, 16 convicted felons stared back from a poster board at the Austin Police Department. Investigators say they were members of a gang called the Texas Mexican Mafia. With one exception, they were all U.S. citizens. All of their crimes were heinous.
“The gang was heavily involved with drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, prostitution, weapons trafficking and murder,” said Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo.
Acevedo said they were caught after a two-year investigation called “Operation Merecido.” It involved the FBI, local police, the Department of Public Safety, and the U.S. Attorney General’s office.
The investigation began after the gang had spread from San Antonio to Austin.

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