Murder in Cleveland, TN
Latino Street Gang in Cleveland, TN
Ms-13 Members Arrested in Connection with Polk County Murder
WDEF-TV/DT : Louis Lee : August 24th 2006
Summary:
A body was discovered in a burned out car in Cleveland, Tennessee, which is in Polk County. The murder is believed to be linked to MS-13 as two of the suspects in custody appear to be members. Detective Lieutenant Ken Simpson comments on the MS-13 presence in Cleveland, Tennessee saying, “Already, there are signs of their presence. Tagging of local businesses” and ” We've also identified some MS-13 gang members here, some by admission, some by other means. But we have identified several here.”
Analysis:
Cleveland, Tennessee is about 150 miles South East of Nashville. Msthirteen.com recently reported on a successful anti-gang initiative in Tennessee named, “Operation Safer Streets”. The operation mainly focused on intelligence collection. It could be the case that clique members in Cleveland overlap membership with cliques in Nashville or Atlanta. In all likelihood, cooperation and intelligence sharing between these departments would yield results. Certainly, sharing of enforcement tactics, techniques, and procedures would benefit departments with less sophisticated gang enforcement programs, if that is the case in Cleveland. Though, it sounds like they are currently tracking gang activity.
Related Links:
http://police.nashville.org/news/media/2006/05/04.htm
http://police.nashville.org/news/media/2006/08/14.htm
Categories: Enforcement Operations, Nashville and Atlanta Area
This scares me that they are so close and they don't realize how important it is to evacute this group.
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Don't "evacuate" or send them back.
Give the border patrol permission to shoot them when they step on US soil illegally.
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Cleveland, TN is NOT in Polk County. Cleveland is in Bradley County.
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are u guys aware of the terrorist squad in cleveland.
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I understand from local info the following was either MS13 or Mexican Mafia related because of retribution for activities the victim's brother was involved in. The actual murder was just not an usual stabbing as reported by the news media, but a brutal torture execution. This occurred on Friday morning 23 Jan 2008 in Cleveland, TN.
UPDATE Saturday from WRCB- Chattanooga.
Cleveland Police tell Eyewitness News the victim, Fredy Perez, was killed by a stab wound - not a gunshot wound to the head as authorities previously stated. They tell us, there was so much blood at the scene they mistook the head wound for a gun injury.
FRIDAY UPDATE:
Bernadette Jay
Eyewitness News Reporter
Louis Lee
Eyewitness News Photographer
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (WRC
The Perez family speaks very little English, but their pain is easily understood. Their church pastor and his wife were already at their side as the family mourns
Investigators tell Eyewitness News the murder happened between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Friday morning. It was Perez's wife who found him lying in a pool of blood.
As police canvassed the area, Bradley County school officials put Bradley Central High on a partial lock down.
Now, as Christina and her family plan her big brother's funeral, they're left to wonder who could've done this and why.
The Cleveland Police say they've interviewed a witness who saw a delivery truck leaving the business earlier Friday morning. But at last check there are no suspects and no surveillance video.
Family and friends told investigators on Friday's Perez had a lot of cash inside the store because he cashed payroll checks.
ORIGINAL STORY:
CLEVELAND (WRC
Police say the body of owner Fredy Perez was discovered by his wife after she noticed the business, Viva Mexico on Keith Street, was not open. Investigators say Perez had been shot in the head.
Students at Bradley Central High School on 1000 South Lee Highway are under a partial lock down. Police in the area told school officials they are searching for a suspect. No students are allowed to leave the building but they are allowed to change classes.
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Cleveland is NOT in Polk County.
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