Wednesday was a busy day in New Jersey for the U.S. Marshals, as well as for the newly appointed U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba. A bunch of dangerous gang-bangers are now off the streets. Alina Habba, we should note, was President Trump's attorney in the various lawfare cases brought against him in the interim between his presidential terms. Now she's rounding up thugs - and accompanying the Marshals personally. A New York Post exclusive report has details.
Nope. Not tired of winning yet.
A teenage Bloods gang member, a sex offender and an alleged cop assaulter hiding under a bed were nabbed Wednesday in a multi-agency raid in Newark — led by the US Marshals with newly minted Interim New Jersey US Attorney Alina Habba in tow.
There were three gang-bangers in particular mentioned:
The Post witnessed the arrest of Zakiyy Houser, 18, a gangbanger with a history of weapons charges wanted for aggravated assault after an incident in which he allegedly shot two people in Newark last month.
Houser’s lengthy rap sheet includes a string of juvenile offenses across Essex County, New Jersey, among them conspiracy, possession of burglary tools, criminal trespass, burglary and theft by unlawful taking, according to records.
Houser is, if we are to judge by this report, a lifetime criminal. Now, he's in federal custody.
Also busted in the Wednesday raids was Darius Torres, 22, a sex offender wanted by the Lehigh County Sheriff’s Office for failure to appear in court following an arrest for possessing child pornography and obscene materials.
Torres is a sexual predator, a pedophile, and very likely a distributor of child pornography. Now, he's in federal custody.
The agents also collared David Bogar, 26, who was being sought by the Union County Sheriff’s Office for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer after he rammed a cop car with his vehicle and fled the scene. They found him hiding under a bed in his Newark apartment building.
Bogar attacked a cop. Now, he's in federal custody. And hiding under a bed - seriously?
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Now, some will dismiss the U.S. Attorney's presence on the raid as a mere photo-op and accuse her of publicity-seeking. That's a canard. For one thing, this is leadership; the Marshals have gone into the streets on dangerous business at her behest, so it's a good demonstration of leadership that she be there as well. Certainly, she was never placed in any danger, but she was there, and in law enforcement as in the military, when you're a leader, your people must see you as a leader. For another thing, this sends a message to the other gang-bangers out there - and Newark alone probably has a surfeit of them - that the new U.S. Attorney is gunning for them.
That's a good message to send.
These gang-bangers, if we take this report at face value, won't be repatriated or sent to El Salvador, as they are American citizens. But they are off the streets, they will face trial, and if there is any sanity remaining in the world, they will be put away for a good long stretch.
Alina Habba, in her new role, seems to have hit the ground running. And that's good because from what I've seen of Newark, that city alone contains enough to keep her and her people busy.
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