gangs. and for some, suppressing gang activity is a daily challenge that comes with life or death consequences. >> slide out. slide out. on your stomach. keep going now. that's fine. >> on front line of the battles are gang investigators. >> they have walk a fine line, managing a difficult relationship with dangerous inmates and each one has a different way of doing business. but the investigator we met in cleveland really stood out from the crowd. >> clear. seven. look at me. >> he's known at the cuyahoga county correction center in downtown cleveland as big sam. >> you used him. who's the victim? you sit here won't even open your mouth to tell me nothing about what these guys did -- >> we quickly learned gang investigator sam mclaren had a personality to match his physique. >> big sam's style was one of dedication and passion. >> you have that candy -- >> sweet. >> i'll see you later. >> thank you. >> you take care of yourself. >> he could be very caring and heartfelt in his communication,

we're getting not just the west coast gangs, like the crips, the bloods, surenos, the upper midwest gangs, chicago, milwaukee, east coast stuff, all coming through here. >> in 2007, a lieutenant put a major dent in the area's gang population. he led a task force that landed dozens of gang members in federal prison. today he's the sheriff of sedgwick county. >> we did about a year and a half investigation, we were the lead agency on it, convicted about 50 crip gang members from distribution of cocaine, to rico, rico conspiracies, homicide, a whole plethora of things. eradicated the crip gang here, the largest gang we had. >> along with other duties, sheriff easter oversees the sedgwick county jail. most here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial and resolution of their cases. among them is a man regarded as wichita's most notorious gang leaders. markle dean is known on the streets by his gang name, c-3. >> he put fear in people's hearts. you put your head down when he walk by you. that was someone you don't look in the eye. >> that was someone that didn't play. >> he didn't pla

the gang life-style.. >> though pastor tina predicted the dismissal of dean's earlier murder charge, she is less certain this time. >> marquel is on another journey, but this time i believe he's going to sit a little minute because he didn't get it right the last time. he walk off and leave you standing. >> dean says he's innocent this time as well, but he would never identify the real killer even if he knew who it was. though he says he has shed gang life, he still cannot violate the long-standing code against snitching. pastor tina preaches, that's a code whose time is up. >> i want to talk to you about that because y'all got this thing in here that you're not going to snitch on nobody, you know what i'm saying? you come in here, both y'all on the case. you know, whatever the case may be, i'm just giving you a scenario. you got in a situation, your friend shot the dude, you had no plans of shooting nobody but he shot him. because you're with him you come to jail. we're quiet because i don't want to be l

that is from a report on gangs. ms 13 gang is actively recruiting juveniles especially spanish speakers and also noting an increase in violent criminal activity committed by ms 13 affiliates. we know the fbi and homeland security are joining northern virginia area police to target and take down these gangs on campuses officials say these gangs are operating like predators seeking middle and high intimidating them and often making offers that young people may find hard to refuse. >> these illegal gangs are recruiting juveniles more so on an increase. they obviously are preying on those who are vulnerable, looking for security or think they're looking for a better way of life which we know is not the case. >> and officials say taking down these gangs is going to be a group effort. they're asking parent to speak with their children about gangs on campuses and urging anyone who may see something suspicious on a school campus to come forward and give police a call. we are live from fairfax county. i'm justin finch, back

child molesters or gang dropouts. thing we learned about prison, doesn't matter where you're housed, your safety is never guaranteed. >> we believe you may have been a victim of a battery. >> joseph de la cruz is a gang dropout, serving nine years for attempted murder at california san quentin state prison. when we first met him, authorities had just discovered that he had been assaulted inside his protective custody cell. >> this morning, you come out of your cell, we did a sweep to find out how many people stayed behind. you were discovered with injuries. and here's the medical report. >> despite obvious injuries, de la cruz refused to give correctional staff any information about the attack. >> we're trying to find out who -- i want to tell them what happened. >> any specific individuals you know are your enemies? >> no, sir. >> how about any prison weapons offenses? >> no, sir. >> do you belong to a gang? >> no, i don't. >> aside from what you're being accused of being a victim, are you involved in any other batte

gang members love to put their gang somewhere visibly on their body so rival gang members or their own gang members can identify them as, are they friend or foe? and we train our class officers to look for these identifiers and if they can't get the gang member to self-admit then they refer to the gang officers and we look at these tattoos. aside from just tattoo, we'll look at their history in the fassel. do they have a history of conducting gang-related activity. strong-arming in the units. group assaults, things of that kind of nature. in conjunction with their tattoos and that history, we can establish whether or not the guy is a gang member. >> raymond diaz is up front about his gang-related tattoos. >> the stuff i got on me, a lot of it is gang related. they call them like stamps, you know. everything was done behind bars with a staple. we don't use fancy needles and all that. the main part on my chest, it's the blast and that's for dongo blast. it's probably one of the biggest prison gangs in texas. i chose to put it in big letters on my chest because when i get to a prison unit

gang members love to put their gang somewhere visibly on their body so rival gang members or their owners can identify them as, are they friend or foe? and we train our class officers to look for these identifiers and if they can't get the gang member to self-admit then they refer to the gang officers and we look at these tattoos. aside from just tattoo, we'll look at their history in the fassel. do they have a history of conducting gang-related activity. strong-arming in the units. group assaults, things of that kind of nature. in conjunction with their tattoos and that history, we can establish whether or not the guy is a gang member. >> raymond diaz is up front about his gang-related tattoos. >> the stuff i got on me, a lot of it is gang related. they call them like stamps, you know. everything was done behind bars with a staple. we don't use fancy needles and all that. the main part on my chest, it's the blast and that's for dongo blast. it's probably one of the biggest prison gangs in texas. i chose to put it in big letters on my chest because when i get to a prison unit or a pod

that didn't even gang bang. miramontes maintains his innocence in this case, he admits to past violence with his gang. >> well, the things that i did, it was like little things, you know. shoot-outs with different gang bangers, but never actually killed no one. injure them? yeah. killed them? no. i'm not a murderer. i'm not hard-core gangster. homey, no. my things were usually drugs, weapons, money, easy. i had good grades in elementary, junior high, high school. i graduated with a 3.17. i'm a certified electrician. people used to say, he works. he has a good job, but i started hooking up with different people, older friends, older guys. serious business. so i was easy money. i will do that favor for you, you know, let's go. >> what was easy money? >> delivering, here, there. nice. they used me to do all these runs. was i getting paid good money? yeah. was it worth it? not really. but that's one thing that i thank god for being locked up, is because being on the street, when i was on the street, oh, man, i was b

down. >> byrd gang.that what you are? why didn't you tell us in the first place? >> little bit of cooperation is better than none. >> during the search, knight and demerey also found a lighter hidden in the mattress of sandier's cell mate, alfredo roca moreno. knowing he has a lengthy history, correctional officers now want to take a closer look at the mattress. >> what have we got here? >> i need this mattress checked for contraband, please. >> we have to break this whole mattress down. regulations require that security check mattresses when they're brought in like this. lieutenant? this was the area that was concerned, right? >> yes. >> roca moreno is a known member of a puerto rican prison gang called the nietas. he joined during an earlier prison sentence he served in puerto rico, but he insists the nietas are not a gang. but a fellowship of sorts. >> it was a word from the warriors. they used to send it to the gods three times. that's why it means the birth of a new warrior. >> roca moreno says puer

it's time to dismantle the gangs, terrorizing our citizens. >> president trump adding gang busting to his agenda this week. the commander-in-chief signed an executive order aimed at combatting gangs in u.s. cities targeting international gangs operating in u.s. cities. obviously when you have peace and tranquility, and that's for key areas left behind. >> fbi said 30,000 gangs across the country, 1.4 million in the gangs, are you ready for this? 40% of them are 18 years and younger, and of the population cities, with 250,000 people or more, 100% of them have gang activity. you have got to change this and it's good to see somebody speaking up big time and it's coming from the bully pulpit and i hope he follows through and i hope people follow through with him. it's got to be done. charles: there's a cultural aspect to it. these kids don't have fathers. adam, some blame democratic policies for this over the last several years that have allowed disintegration of the black family in the absence of fathers. that's going to be key. you being have all the law enforcement you want if a kid do

the majority of the gang members here belong to white supremacist gangs.son officials suspect that asatru might be a front for white supremacist gangs. marcus murray denies that. >> there has never been anything in my studies that says one race is more dominant over another one culture. nor one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe that our religion is fine, your religion is fine. >> guy radcliffe who has been practicing asatru for several years here. said there's one group that is not welcome. >> if we found out someone in the community was a child molester, he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. it's a bylaw, you cannot be a sex offender and be in asatru. >> radcliffe also defended the fact that some members have swastikas tattooed often their bodies. >> the swastika was around long before adolf hitler came along. okay? now, i don't have nothing against uncle adolf, but he took something from my religion, which was a sun wheel and made it part of his party. it goes back to ancient civilizations. they had a swasti

the crimes committed by these gangs tend to be within their cliques or gang on gang crime. > tony. fox5 is in prince george's county where three people remain hospitalized tonight after the car they were riding in was hit by gunfire. it happened this afternoon along route 50 in maryland. lauren demarco has been following the story and joins us live from the spot where it happened in hyattsville. lauren. >>reporter: tone initial route 350 moving okay right now. everything has been reopened, but around 3:00 p.m. in the middle of the day today a car was shot up in the eastbound lanes. it happened just east of 295. take a look at the scene. there was a gray kia, a sedan. there were three men inside of it. the three of them were shot outside you can see about 13 bullet holes on the car. the men were taken to the they are all expected to survive. the prince george's county police tell us they do not believe this was random. so somebody targeted the car likely in a vehicle also heading in the same direction on route 50. shell case were found as far as 100 yards away from where the kia sto

i remember, gangs were so often nailed by posting things on myspace, communicating with other gang membersthey may not have known this when they first arrested them. they were it may have researched it after the fact. they got to have something than a simple admission. sometimes, these kids do something by way of braggadocio. my guess is they have a lot more. if they do, he is not going to be saved by daca. he will be deported. >> martha: two elements to the story. the individual, who everyone want to be treated fairly. i know we agree on that. then, the larger picture, where there is almost, i think, and anticipation, pope was too strong a word, that people will be brought in who don't deserve to be brought in. that will reflect poorly and fulfill the wishes of people who are very much against the president. mr. hernandez, what do you think? >> it has nothing to do with it. it has everything to do with the constitution. it is called the due process clause of the constitution. what is amazing is that the extreme rights argue for the last four or five years that president obama did not have

he's a member of two street gangs. one called the starter boys and the other one is called the heartless felons. >> the heartless felons is the jail's largest gang. most of them were recruited in county juvenile facilities. goodwin himself only recently transferred from the jail's juvenile wing to an adult housing unit when he turned 18. but he was first arrested 18 months earlier at age 16. he's charged with murder and has pled not guilty. >> i've been here so long it's hard to cope sometimes. you try to adapt as much as you can. but when you get around new people that ain't doing as much time as you is, sometimes you snap. >> see somebody coming here three or four times and i'm still sitting on the same case, it kind of bothers you sometimes. they take their life for granted. >> sam mcclaren has known goodwin since he arrived at the jail and now wants to speak to him about his alleged role in the fight. >> have a seat in that yellow chair, mr. goodwin. tony, we're here to talk about the incident that took place on ja

they said only one gang is involved in all of this, however, they would not tell us which gang. they said they believe naming the gang gives them the credibility they and she said it's ms13. >> i have been in law enforcement for 20 years now. >> reporter: this is the voice of barry bowright. he knows ms13 well. >> it's probably the most violent gang i have seen in the dc area. >> reporter: he says it began in l.a. in the 1980s, and most of the original members we from el salvador or first generation americans, but now they are bigger and more violent. >> they are involved in a lot of criminal activity, and anything they can make money on they will do. drug trafficking, robberies, human trafficking, murder, and the motive could be something as small as an initiation into the gang. in fairfax, ellison barber, wusa 9. >>> college students are getting creative when it comes to raising money for tuition. tomorrow morning on wake up washington, we will tell you one way students are getting funds. >> and young boy recovers open heart surgery. we spoke to 12-year-olderric last year, but

both killings have been tied to gangs. and disturbing court documents show us how gang members are luring their victims via social media. northern virginia reporter david culver has the story. >> reporter: fairfax county police have arrested ten suspects connected to alexandra reyes' murder. investigators found the 15-year-old's body last saturday but it was the murder of christian in neighboring prince william county that helped fairfax solve alexandra's case. trouble is, christian's killers are still out >> the victim was lured down to where he was killed. >> reporter: this search warrant filed in court suggests christian had alleged himself to be a leader of a local ms13 clique. it seems that is didn't settle well with other gang leaders who began contacting him and questioning his rank. police believe those leaders then used social media accounts of femalessociates in an effort to lure out unsuspecting victims like christian. etting him up and luring him away from his normal surroundings. police say he was then murdere

the majority of the gang members here belong to white supremacist gangs.rison officials suspect that asatru might be a front for white supremacist gangs. markus maury murray, one of the leaders denies that. >> there has never been anything in my studies that says one race is more dominant over another one culture. nor one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe that our religion is fine, your religion is fine. >> guy radcliffe who has been practicing asatru for several years here. said there's one group that is not welcome. >> if we found out someone in the community was a child molester, he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. it's a bylaw, you cannot be a sex offender and be in asatru. >> radcliffe also defended the fact that some members have swastikas tattooed often their bodies. >> the swastika was around long before adolf hitler came along. okay? now, i don't have nothing against uncle adolf, but he took something from my religion, which was a sun wheel and made it part of his party. it goes back to ancient civi

tend to be within their clicks or ganghr on gang crime. > thank you.u. new at 10 tonight, bed bugs popped up at another c public school. this time at minor elementary in northeast. the news come after fox5 a firss reported about a bed bug at savoy elementary.leme they closed that school lasthool week for cleaning.anin sarah sip once is live tonight with more on this latest bed bug report. >>reporter: shawn, a schoolscho spokesperson confirmed they did find bed bugs on individual o students' clothing much theng cases are dated from february 9, 14th and the 15th and that they were found on those students' clothing. a spokesperson says that custodians are currently verifying spots around the incidents to make sure that thet do not require fort perrt p cleaning. i will tell you when we arrived here earlier tonight at minor elementary school, there was a pest control vehicle here in the parking lot. d.c. ps maintains bed bugs areae not a widespread problem here at minor. at this point the school has not been shutdown.shut savoy elementary was shutdown for a f

maybe even dated a member ofber the gang. she also believes ms-13 is responsible for that teenager's murder, and most alarming, is that she said she is now receiving threats from the gang,eiving as well. >> the mother of the slain gaithersburg teenager said she feels bad she couldn't help her daughter when she needed herer w most. police say 15 year old damaris reyes from gaithersburg, was and -- ac duct dollars and then killed, herc du body foundn a wooded area of springfield, two months after she went missing. >> fairfax county police chiefef said this about r >> savage, brutal killing, horrific, i'll leave it at that. >> but the chain of events was set off by the death of 2121 year old christian sosa rivas, r in prince williams county his body washed ashore midhore january. >> two missing juveniles from fairfax country indirectly linked by association to the victim of a recent homicide ini prince william count. >> i one of those two missing teens is now implicated in the murder. the other returned home safely with her baby

that tattoo, is that a gang tattoo? >> that's a good question. we asked a lot of gang experts.at i am hearing is that the colors of the tattoo are the key.n this dark of the nautical star has blue in it. that could be meaning that he was in the serrenos gang. the bcs, baja, california, we think that is where he is from california, he looked for his first ten years. it also could be baja, california -- >> bill: they don't know definitively, but i.c.e. is still saying they believe he is affiliated with gangs. let's recap. >> they have to have the suspicion. >> bill: no job. were they getting government benefits? do we know that? i am wondering how they werehe living, how the father and son were living. neither of them had jobs. how are they living? >> father and son were living with daniel's brother, who apparently did have a job, was living up in a working-class suburb called des moines, just south of seattle. the brother moved up here in 2016. the brother was there atot the time of the arrest., also, he said, he is legal, the brother said he is legal. but they did take daniel a

many gangs in baltimore, many of them, the biggest of which is --, pgf and other gangs -- >> power isaccessible to the underworld and things were up for grabs. a lot of gang members actually help defend but others use it as an opportunity to exploit and gain power in the underworld. the pecking order. so the book is not only about the looting but also about the drugs that change hands among gangs. and gangs that were feuding over the drugs. so what i'm going to do is take you deeper into the book. rather than start at the beginning i'm going to take you into the heart of the epidemic as i experienced it. in some of the inner-city neighborhoods i was reporting in. one of the reasons i wanted to write this book is because there's so much attention paid to the opioid epidemic and and rural middle-class and upper-class white communities. the aspect of that gets a lot of attention. almost exclusively.almost all of the attention. when you can go to baltimore right now we can go to east new york right now or we can go to harlem right now and find many people shooting up or using pills who ar

police say these arrests are connected to gang activity but they won't mention the gang's name publicly. that is standard policy because they don't want to give the gangs any publicity. video connected to this case, but police won't elaborate on it. police spoke about these overlapping investigations earlier today. take a listen. >> i've been charged in connection with the murder investigation of 15-year-old demaris rivas from the case from january 8th. all people have been charged with abduction and participation at this time and we believe that there are no outstanding suspects we anticipate additional charges in the near future and we will place those charges we will notify the public. >> reporter: tony and shawn, we learned new information out of prince william's county, that shorts are looking into the case here in connection to the january 12 death of christian rivas, his body washed up on the potomac river today. authorities in prince william's county saying that this case could be connected to the case that's being investigated in fairfax county. we want to continue now with our

: one of the most notorious gangs. they have a tremendous amount of numbers of people that have pledged allegiance to them. they specialize in drug trafficking and violent crime. they are feared even in the prison gang community. they are amongst the worst of the worst if i can tell you because they have ties in los angeles at all over the country, incredibly involved criminal network. and they specialize in recruiting and getting people so you have people that come in that are illegal immigrants and they're looking for somewhere to belong. the gangs seek them out, pray upon them and recruit them in. it's a vicious cycle of violence and criminality and we are only encouraging it by not upholding the rule of law. that's all president trump is trying to do. apply the rule of law on the books. on the books when president obama was in, and let's do it. >> greg: is that what it is? having a system. because there's no system or people aren't enforcing the system, you have chaos. >> bob: this is a tragedy that never should ha

on the heels of recent gang violence involving young people and reports that the gang ms 13 is recruiting members as young as elementary school age via facebook. tisha lewis, "fox5 local news". >>> and new tonight the trump administration lifted protections for transgender students and a protest of the decision was in the district earlier tonight and federal guidelines issued during the obama administration allowed students to use bathroo locker rooms matching gender identities that different from the ones on birth certificates a trump administration believes states should sign the issue and there's legal confusion over the guidelines. >> there's problems both in the legal and process way in which guidance was issued. it's incumbant upon us to follow the law and recognize title 9 never talked about it it was enacted in 1972 there was no discussion bang then and to assume certain elements of the law were thought of back then with respect to this would be completely preposterous. >> a letter sent to schools nationwide from the department of education and justice say the obama administration

particular gangs are predatory gangs and they prey upon the weaker inmates. we want to get them out of population so we can make the jail, as a whole, safer for inmates and staff. >> so you understand what i'm telling you, right? >> i'm going on lockdown? >> you probably will today. >> why? >> my job is to figure out where we're going to house you at. >> but i'm not doing nothing. why should i go on lockdown if i'm not doing anything? you could look at my reports. >> i am looking at your reports. >> i'm not getting in trouble. i'm not getting write ups. >> we're talking about a report you were involved in. why do you think this guy would identify you as a member of the mexican mafia? >> who is he? >> it doesn't matter who he is. why would he say that? >> to put you on lockdown. >> why would he want to do that to you? why does somebody want to get rid of you? >> i don't know. i don't have no response to that. officer rod re -- rodriguez changes course. >> you got in a fight with two guys, didn't you? or one guy? what was that about? >> money. >> talking about

missing teens murder and suspected gang activity in fairfax county. and how police are cracking down. >> plus a follow up to a "fox5" exclusive. former firefighters are fighting to get the care and benefits they need after being hurt on the job. company trying to made product better for the customers they're for-profit company and by holding this money and getting people treated and diagnosed this is what is happening. >> and parents scared into paying up for child's safety. tonight, the terrifying scam one local school district is warning parents about. "fox 5 news" at 10 starts now. >> we are going to start tonight with breaking news this coming us to out of montgomery county. take a look at your screens, firefighters are working to cleanup after a two-alarm apartment fire. it was a big fire. this is video of the flames and smoke shooting from the top of the building and located along hamilton mill terrace in bethesda. we're told dozens of people were evacuated and 5 firefighters responded to the scene to help control the flames and at this point no

on the outside, gangs are committing more and more cross-border crimes.ng to the fbi, mexican drug cartels are working with 100,000 street gang members in chicago alone. i think we all agree we live in a more angry, more dangerous world than we've seen in a long time. a lot of people for a lot of reasons want to blow it all up and tear the whole thing down. it's in the saul alinsky strategy of sowing grievance and indignation to raise holy hell. it's in the leftist radical plan to tax capitalism to collapse. it's in the rahm emanuel doctrine of never let a crisis go to waste. and it's in the radical isis dream of a worldwide caliphate. so what happens when it all collects and collides like a hurricane? what happens when the national media wind machine blows it up into a firestorm? and what happens if, god forbid, our enemies use that to their advantage? is it anything but a matter of time before the terror and bloodshed we've seen in brussels or paris comes home to america? do we need to look any further than boston, san bernardino or orlando to know that

particular gangs are predatory gangs and they prey upon the weaker inmates. we want to get them out of population so we can make the jail, as a whole, safer for inmates and staff. >> so you understand what i'm telling you, right? >> i'm going on lockdown? >> you probably will today. >> why? >> my job is to figure out where we're going to house you at. >> but i'm not doing nothing. why should i go on lockdown if i'm not doing anything? you could look at my reports. >> i am looking at your reports. >> i'm not getting in trouble. i'm not getting write ups. >> we're talking about a report you were involved in. why do you think this guy would identify you as a member of the mexican mafia? >> who is he? >> it doesn't matter who he is. why would he say that? >> to put you on lockdown. >> why would he want to do that to you? why does somebody want to get rid of you? >> i don't know. i don't have no response to that. . >> you got in a fight with two guys, didn't you? or one guy? what was that about? >> money. >> talking about drugs here? know, talking about money he o

he's a member of two street gangs. on one called the starter boys and heartless felons. >> most of its members were recruited when they were in county juvenile facilities. goodwin himself only transferred from the jail's juvenile wing when he turned 18 e. was first arrested 18 months earlier at age 16. he's charged with murder and has pled not guilty. >> i've been here so long. it's hard to cope sometimes, how to adapt as much as you can, but when you get around new people that ain't doing as much time as you is, you sometimes you snap. you see somebody come here three, four times and i'm still sitting on the same case, kind of bothers you sometimes. take their life for granted. >> sam mclaren has known goodwin since he arrived at the jail and now wants to speak to him about his alleged role in the fight. >> have a seat in the yellow chair, mr. goodwin. tony, we're here to talk about the incident that took place on jail 19 b. altercation involved two individuals. tony stated that you were there. >> i wasn't there. >> y

it was a scramble to find enough attorney's to represent each of the alleged gang members. kpix 5 len ramirez was the only reporter there this morning as agents made those arrests. >>reporter: heavily armed agents moved undercover of the early morning darkness. 12 neighborhoods in the santa cruz area including one near the iconic giant dipper awoke to flash bang grenades and officers with assault rifles. >> i woke up about 4 am and it sounded like gunshots. >>reporter: a wide-ranging effort to put an end to what police call a violent street gang. dozens of agents from homeland security ice in santa cruz police closed in on the gang, an offshoot. >> they have committed murders, extortion and narcotics trafficking. >>reporter: least arrested -- police arrested nine people as part of a five-year investigation targeting the gang. >> they have been here for a decade, some of the more recent violence, we believe several shootings. >>reporter: broken doors and windows were revealed in the daylight. >> i had no idea this was going on. i'm okay with it. >>reporter: neighbors were su

she's a gang -- girl. there were at least five people directly involved in the killing. this all broke as police announced the specific charges in the death of damaris, alexandria rivas. among the five people charged with murder is a 17-year-old boy. in addition to those five, another five teens charged with abduction and gang participation. all of it linked to the murder of a 21-year-old man in prince william county who may have been dating a 15-year-old girl, the one who was killed. >>> now, the family of murder victim damaris alexandria rivas, believe that ms13 is at the nexus of all of this. gang recruiting in the region has taken a sudden jump. >> well, we had a lot of expertise here in fairfax county, talking about this today. the man in charge of tracking violent gangs, like the one, linked to the death of this 15- year-old girl from gaithersburg, told me today, the focus of their efforts is now on middle schools, with kids from 12 to 13 years old. >> so we're seeing a lot of increase in recruiting in high schools and middle schools, which is alarming to us. >> ja

or gang attachments. if there's anything close to a suspicion -- >> then he wouldn't get the authorization. >> not even close, but was authorized as early as 2016. if he was really a self-professed gang member wouldn't you search the house, look for paraphernalia, wouldn't you call local law enforcement and say we've got a serious problem, a possible gang member you need to check this out. we have said to a asa, if you have any evidence, any evidence whatsoever that supports the claim that he is a gang member, come forward with it. let us know what it is, and the response i got when i made that statement was i'm not aware of any such evidence. >> let me move on because i only have so much time and i want to get to this very important question so he has this hearing on friday. are you worried he will be deported on friday? >> absolutely not. >> why not? >> because we have filed a lawsuit saying that this is unconstitutional and we're going to -- if the government doesn't acknowledge a mistake was made in t

recruiting seance says the regional gang -- recruiting says regional gang task force director. they're investigating the murder of a montgomery county teen found dead in virginia this past weekend. >> even more concerning is the increase in juvenile violent defenders. >> investigators confirmed five suspects with gang links are now charged in his murder and abduction. another five teenagers are charged with gang participation. the victim's grieving mother yesterday telling us her daughter's in middle school. they live in maryland. >> she went to watkins high school, she dropped out and was no longer a student. so when her body was found in virginia a note did not go out to parents and students. just last month a 17-year-old student from the same school was charged in the gang related facebook luring and murder of a 22-year-old whose body was found last november. it's not just a maryland problem. >> i can't give you the name of the schools. but many schools in northern virginia area and primarily in the areas where there is a heavy population, a latino populations because that's

shows the areas of gang activity in our region. in maryland officials say there are growing numbers of ms-13 members in montgomery county and prince georges county. then head into the district. ms-13 and king street gangs are concentrated in northwest and southeast. they have held initiations in public parks. northern virginia as you can see here, the problem widespread. gang activity has been tracked in just about every jurisdiction there. this as we've uncovered court documents revealing how gang members are luring their young victims. it is a frightening technique connected to two recent murders. >> reporter: fairfax county police say they've arrested all ten suspects alexandra reyes' murder. investigators found the 15-year-old's body last saturday. but it was the murder of christian sosa rivas in prince william county that helped fairfax solve alexandra's case. christian's killers are still out there. >> the victim was lured down to where he was and killed. >> reporter: this search warrant filed in court alleged he had himself

the gangs. they don't want to be part of that gang violence that has totally decimated el salvador and honduras. el salvador is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. they are fleeing gang violence. they are not part of the gangs. it is a question of how you deal with some of the factors that may be contributed to that violence. one thing you mentioned, which is important to note, one of the biggest issues of violence in u.s. countries is the need for drugs. one way to address the undocumented migrant movement is you want to look at economic development in central america, ways to reduce violence, and reducing the drug man in the u.s. -- demand in the u.s. secretary kelly talks about this issue when he says we cannot only play defense. if you really want to stop illegal immigration and the drug

investigation involving teenage girl and suspected gang members. >> "fox5" exclusive accusations of corrupted system. more fist responders hurt on the job are saying they're not getting the treatment they need. >> i don't mean top start crying but i would make it work right now if they listen. >> there's new office technical allowing businesses to keep a close watch on employees. your news starts right now. >> first up we're continuing to fol 'a developing story in bethesda. firefighters are on the scene of two alarm apartment fire. this was from earlier this evening you can seat flames and smoke shooting from the top of the building. fire broke out around 8:30 at the gables apartment along hamilton mill terrace. dozens of people were evacuated and fire department says it was a child to get the fire under >> we had heavy fire conditions. but whenever you have a fire on exterior it's problematic where it burns up and then in but fire fightsers could make a quick knock of it and good thing in injuries. >> we're told 100 firefighters responded and no word on what caused the fire. >>> also tonigh

i meant to say former gang thugs.uys who were formerly in the street life in chicago. >> pastor scott said later he didn't talk to gang members, he said a lack of sleep led him to say that, and it was just one gang member who talked to him. >> trevor: how can your facial hair be so precise and your memory so blurry? how? ( applause ) lack of sleep has different effects on everyone. some of us get cranky. some people miss having entire conversations with gangbusters. oh, man, i haven't slept -- and oh, and i met all the gang bullsers in chicago. that's what happens. this is (bleep). let's talk about global news. it's been so chaotic in america dealing with trump's (bleep) that you forget there is a whole world out there also dealing with trump's (bleep). you can't escape the man. it's not like the world doesn't have problems of its own. for instance, in germany, they're worried about russians interfering with their elections now, but instead of focusing on that, poor angela merkel had to spend her precious time explain