Involved mainly in organized crime activities such as drug and arms trafficking, robbery, and prostitution El Universal 4 Apr. Country Reports , for instance, noted that MS gang members have reportedly robbed, killed and raped migrants entering Mexico from the south 25 Feb. The Mexico City newspaper Excelsior also mentioned that MS gang leaders had been reportedly meeting with drug cartel members in the northern states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Baja California and Jalisco ibid.
With regard to the municipality of Nezahualcoyotl, located in the state of Mexico on the outskirts of the Federal District, two news sources reported on incidents involving suspected members of the MS El Universal 12 Feb.
In a 3 February news article, the chief of the Federal District's preventive police force, Marcelo Ebrard, acknowledged that MS cells celulas could be operating in the border zone of Nezahualcoyotl, state of Mexico and Iztapalapa, Federal District ibid. In another February story, the Federal District preventive police force was investigating a group of 50 Central American youths suspected of being MS members in the outskirts of the Federal District bordering the municipality of Nezahualcoyotl El Universal 12 Feb.
An El Universal article of April noted that a security plan involving municipal, state and federal law enforcement agencies in the Federal District and the urban areas in the state of Mexico had been developed to address the MS problem 4 Apr.
La Jornada reported that anti-maras anti-gang police operations in the past year had resulted in the capture of some gang members and the dismantling of six Mara bases of operation 12 Nov.
