Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Gardens Gang Raid: Identification Mix Up lands Innocent Chef in Jail; Two more arrests bring total to 90. New You Tube Video documents raid

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VIDEOS on Last weeks Massive Raid from You Tube.

Thanks to local news sources, Long Beach Press Telegram, Los Angeles Times, KABC Eyewitness News, and YouTube.com .

Blog Posting by Randy Economy

Two more alleged gang members have been located and arrested over the weekend in the nation's largest federal indictment against the criminal street gang "Varrio Hawaiian Gardens," and one Pico Rivera man is free tonight in what can only be called a huge case of "mistaken identity."

A Pico Rivera grandfather, who is an Executive Chef by trade, was incorrectly arrested during the investigation by authorities and was released from Los Angeles County Jail in Downtown. Opps. How could this happen? Easy, when you share the same EXACT name of one of those being sought by authorities.

"Operation Knockout"


This massive raid, the largest every conducted against an American street gang, has had everyone breathing a sigh of relief in our Cerritos, Artesia, Hawaiian Gardens, Norwalk, Pico Rivera community.

The arrests included more than 60 people named in five federal indictments and more than 20 individuals arrested on state or local charges, authorities said.

Included in the arrests was a Pico Rivera husband and father - Ramon Galves Huerta - who shares a first, middle and last name with one of the 147 people named in the federal indictment said a spokesman for the US Attorneys Office.

The retired chef was released on Saturday, after spending two nights in jail, when authorities realized he was not the drug dealer they were after.

Authorities are still trying to figure out how they mixed up the 64-year-old Huerta with the suspect who shares an identical name, Mrozek said Tuesday.

One indictment alleges a man named Ramon Galves Huerta was recorded in wiretapped phone conversations speaking about heroin and conspiring to sell the drug, although the court document gives no physical description or identifying details of the suspect.

Watch for a lawsuit to be filed from Ramon Galves Huerta, the Chef, not the one in the gang...Paging Gloria Allred.

I also want to give a "Shout Out" to Cerritos Mayor Pro Tem for being the only member of the Cerritos City Council to mention "Operation Knockout" at City Hall tonight and for asking the community to be "engaged" in making our streets safer. Thanks Joe Cho!






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