Cooperation DOES work, go figure

11 arrested in Va. after nationwide anti-gang operation led by ICE. A recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement anti-gang operation resulted in over a thousand arrests nationwide, and some were in Virginia. Eleven members of MS-13 were arrested at a Falls Church residence on April 26 with the help of Fairfax County police. Investigators had been watching the house, they said, after reports that it was allegedly being used for sex trafficking. Two people in the home had outstanding deportation orders, officials said. Nationwide, the operation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations targeted gang members and associates involved in such activity as drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, human smuggling and sex trafficking, and murder and racketeering. It netted a total of 1,378 arrested from March 26 to May 6 and brought in not only members of MS-13, but also members of the Bloods, Crips and Sureños gangs.  WTOP