
- 265 pages
- English
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About this book
Special Agent Michael Santini offers an inside account of the takedown of MS-13 in San Francisco—one of the largest federal takedowns of a criminal gang in U.S. history.
In a bid to take down MS-13's criminal network in the Mission District of San Francisco, Michael Santini, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, recruits a pair of hardened gang members and convinces them to risk their lives as criminal informants. Set in a city with one of the strictest sanctuary policies protecting illegal immigrants in America, Operation Devil Horns illustrates how politically correct ideology impacts life-or-death crime fighting on the streets.
Through the informants' eyes, Operation Devil Horns offers a rare glimpse into the pervasive criminal subculture of MS-13, a gang of Spanish-speaking immigrants that still terrorizes pockets of American society today – including their own compatriots. The case begins with a focus on the gang in San Francisco, eventually widening to include a network that reaches across borders. Santini tracks down the gang's leadership from the Bay Area to the prison cells of corrupt Central American regimes. Eventually, it takes the cold-blooded murder of three family members in San Francisco to shake the American public out of complacency and focus sober attention on a growing and violent threat.
This is the story of a dedicated team of special agents, federal prosecutors, and local police who overcome political and legal challenges to take down more than two dozen violent criminal targets.
In a bid to take down MS-13's criminal network in the Mission District of San Francisco, Michael Santini, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, recruits a pair of hardened gang members and convinces them to risk their lives as criminal informants. Set in a city with one of the strictest sanctuary policies protecting illegal immigrants in America, Operation Devil Horns illustrates how politically correct ideology impacts life-or-death crime fighting on the streets.
Through the informants' eyes, Operation Devil Horns offers a rare glimpse into the pervasive criminal subculture of MS-13, a gang of Spanish-speaking immigrants that still terrorizes pockets of American society today – including their own compatriots. The case begins with a focus on the gang in San Francisco, eventually widening to include a network that reaches across borders. Santini tracks down the gang's leadership from the Bay Area to the prison cells of corrupt Central American regimes. Eventually, it takes the cold-blooded murder of three family members in San Francisco to shake the American public out of complacency and focus sober attention on a growing and violent threat.
This is the story of a dedicated team of special agents, federal prosecutors, and local police who overcome political and legal challenges to take down more than two dozen violent criminal targets.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude
- Part I
- Chapter 1: Operation Card Shark
- Chapter 2: Diego Gets Arrested
- Chapter 3: First Collaboration with SFPD
- Chapter 4: Turning an Informant
- Chapter 5: Clueless in San Francisco
- Chapter 6: Informant 1301 Dives In
- Chapter 7: Meet-up at Tommy’s Joynt
- Chapter 8: Peloncito Threatens Tigre
- Chapter 9: Hell in Honduras
- Chapter 10: Casper Turns Ratta
- Chapter 11: Making the Case in D.C.
- Chapter 12: Cyco and Peloncito on the Rise
- Chapter 13: The Cagey Coke King
- Chapter 14: Tracking Guns in Reno
- Chapter 15: Success
- Chapter 16: Foiled Sting
- Chapter 17: Growing Pressure
- Part II
- Chapter 18: A Proven Prosecutor
- Chapter 19: Devil Horns Grows
- Chapter 20: 20th Street Power Shift
- Chapter 21: Outside the Lines in El Sal
- Chapter 22: Diego Returns
- Chapter 23: Norteño War Heats Up
- Chapter 24: Drive-By Horror: The Final Straw
- Chapter 25: Human Hunters Increase the Heat
- Chapter 26: Sanctuary City in Panic
- Chapter 27: Green-Light for Takedown
- Chapter 28: Zero Hour
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors