Rival Prison Gangs Working Together on Outside with Drug Cartels, Feds Say

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By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com

WASHINGTON — Sometimes law enforcement wishes not everyone got along.

USA Today reports that rival prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Mexican Mafia “are brokering unusual criminal alliances outside prison to assist Mexican drug cartel operations in the U.S. and Mexico.”

Inside the prisons, the paper reported, the groups remain bitter enemies, the paper says.

Kevin O’Keefe, chief of ATF’s criminal intelligence division, tells the paper that says investigators have tied the rival gangs to some stolen vehicles flush with cash and weapons headed toward locations like Mexico and Texas.

“They realize that the financial gain is so lucrative that they have been willing to work together,” O’Keefe told USA Today. “It’s all about business.”

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