of Objs. A "pattern of racketeering activity" is defined as two or more enumerated predicate crimes. U.S. Id. Hrg. at 466, 91 S. Ct. 2022. (Tr. NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the magistrate judge's recommendation (Docket # 1027) is *934 ADOPTED, and that defendant Rosado's motion (docket # 785) is DENIED. See Jacobs v. City of Chicago, 215 F.3d 758, 768 n. 4 (7th Cir.2000). See id. "I had no idea that he was awaiting sentence and entered that plea. Thirty Four Alleged Gang Members Charged with Participating in They asked Hirschfield's family for patience. Johnson v. United States,333 U.S. 10, 14, 68 S. Ct. 367, 92 L. Ed. Justia Opinion Summary In 2005, Martinez, Vallejo, and 47 others were indicted for crimes committed while they were members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Latin Kings gang organization. Trevino and other Latin Kings accused each other of talking to police, according to police reports. It would take years to complete the case, as agents sifted through more than 100 criminal acts that could qualify under the federal racketeering statute, including shootings, robberies, drug dealing and extortion. among forty-nine Milwaukee-area Latin Kings indicted Case: 10-2677 Document: 56 Filed: 07/18/2012 Pages: 32 . It was King love or no love.'. Id. It said nothing about whether the informants made first-hand observations, or about whether law enforcement officials independently verified any of their claims about firearms. Between June 1993 and February 1994, seven Latin Kings were murdered. Rosado raised all of these arguments, most of them verbatim, in his motion before Judge Gorence. she said. Similarly, if officers obtain consent or a warrant to search for a stolen television set, "they must limit their activity to that which is necessary to *925 search for such an item; they may not rummage through private documents and personal papers." A few days later, the FBI turned the case of hunting down the pair over to the U.S. As the above discussion indicates, I decline to follow the Eighth Circuit's decision in United States v. Apker, 705 F.2d 293, 300-01 (8th Cir.1983). Atty., David Robles, Sp. ), rev'd on rehr'g en banc, 199 F.3d 915 (7th Cir.1999). "He knows what he is doing. [3] The affidavit did not assert that Rosado had been indicted. Other recent cases where defendants eluded justice because of failures in the system: LZ Jolly, a purported gang leader, was charged in the execution of a man and was on the run for years. It's unclear what the fight was about at the gas station that night in April 2003, but Toms landed the first punch, nailing Barragan in the face, according to the documents. In the basement Sergeant Harpole observed, in plain view on a shelf, a black plastic box measuring approximately 4 inches by 8 inches by 1.5 or 2 inches. Those state prosecutors did not return calls for comment. Jolly ended up with probation after many witnesses changed their stories. at 20.) Rosado next contends that the search conducted pursuant to the search warrant issued the evening of the search was unlawful, because the affidavit supporting the warrant did not provide probable cause. at 238, 103 S. Ct. 2317. The box contained hundreds of .22 caliber bullets. The summary of common characteristics of narcotics traffickers and their residences gave the magistrate judge no basis to believe that incriminating evidence of narcotics crimes would be found at Rosado's residence. The affidavit then spent over two pages detailing the alleged organizational and management structure of the Latin Kings, providing such details as its having a written "manifesto"; protecting territory from rival gang members through violence and intimidation; marking its territory with graffiti; holding joint meetings called "Nation meetings"; having subchapters with specified leadership and membership levels such as Incas, Caciques, Enforcers, and "Junior Kings"; using violence; and punishing disobedient Latin Kings through beatings, robberies, or death. Defendant Rosado seeks an order suppressing evidence seized during a June 22, 1998 search of his residence on Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment grounds. "the . IV. It did not state whether the informants made first-hand observations, or whether law enforcement officials independently verified some or all of their claims about firearms. In other words, where an association is not in effect wholly illegitimate, a search warrant must be supported by some additional nexus between association with the organization and an alleged pattern of racketeering activity.