Defunct gang registry helped deliver Abrego Garca to Salvadoran prison
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April 19, 2025 at 5:44 p.m. EDT
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... To date, the only evidence federal authorities have produced in court to support such allegations is the Maryland police detective’s 2019 gang sheet.
But a Washington Post review of court documents and other public records found that attorneys and judges have questioned the integrity of the allegations in that document since it was written ...
The gang unit in Prince George’s County, whose residents are majority Black and Latino, stopped using the Gang Field Interview Sheet as a source of intelligence gathering about three years ago, amid a civil lawsuit that alleged young men of color were disproportionately represented in it.
And in January, federal officials in the Washington region decommissioned GangNET, a database of alleged gang members that those field sheets fed into, because participation drastically tapered as its credibility came into question ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/19/kilmar-abrego-garcia-ice-police-gang-registry/