Top oil field terrorized armed Venezuela gangs

[kbaxter60]

Predator Drones with misses..

Mrs. Hellfire, I presume?

 

[Texan79423]

Most of these attacks are on leases on different ranches. Many of these ranchers and leasing companies have frontend loaders close buy. Put them to good use it not unusual to see them working off in the distance dya or night.

 

[Darkpriest667]

Amazingly AMO bases predators and other CBP air assets out of San Angelo. Last year, Ector County put out bids for LE drones using asset forfeiture money. Of all things, Civil Air Patrol has some nice sensor packages on light planes, too.

Intelligence-driven ops can really make a thin force effective.

I wonder if because this is terrorism and related to critical infrastructure if CAG is going to get involved. You would never hear about it but that would be the end of these gangs threatening critical infrastructure.

 

[toddnjoyce]

I wonder if because this is terrorism and related to critical infrastructure if CAG is going to get involved. You would never hear about it but that would be the end of these gangs threatening critical infrastructure.

CAG/ST6/T1 are subject to Posse Comitatus limitations.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

From the article cited in the OP...

In the past week, we saw armed Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua members terrorize the northern Denver suburb of Aurora and other sanctuary cities run by far-left Democrats.

Aurora is NOT a sanctuary city. The mayor is a republican. The republicans control the city, LOL.

Aurora City Council passes resolution demanding a stop to busing migrants to “non-sanctuary city”

Aurora’s city government wants to make clear that it has no plans to take in or provide services for an influx of migrants coming into the city from other municipalities, according to a resol…

www.denverpost.com

Aurora council's swing further right 'insulates' city from more progressive ideas

As Aurora's city council swings further right following Tuesday's election, conservative councilmembers said it strengthens their position and "insulates" the city from progressive ideas that — without explicitly saying so

denvergazette.com

 

[oldag]

Drones could cover a lot of area

Someone has to monitor the drone feeds. And someone has to respond to the site and find out if the people are legit workers or thieves. Quite a few people out in the oil patch on any given day.

 

[Darkpriest667]

CAG/ST6/T1 are subject to Posse Comitatus limitations.

Oh so it's absolutely a law enforcement matter at this point then.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Someone has to monitor the drone feeds. And someone has to respond to the site and find out if the people are legit workers or thieves. Quite a few people out in the oil patch on any given day.

It’s actually pretty easy to do, especially if you know which sites *should* have activity on any given day or not. It’s even easier if you can establish pattern of life for any suspects.

McChrystal got it that ops has to move at the speed of intel and intel has to be fused with reconnaissance and all source exploitation.

Given CBP and DEA has a ton of exploitable POL data for various cartel activity already, that can help weed out where not to look. It can also be used to recruit snitches. Not an overnight event, but it doesn’t take weeks, either.

It won’t happen because of political priorities, so why does .gov even bother with passing the info along; it’s just buck passing at this point.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Oh so it's absolutely a law enforcement matter at this point then.

There’s some legal ways to get .mil support but it’s really on the advise/consult/logistics support side. FrEX, DoD could tell LE how to effectively conduct an op, but they couldn’t directly participate.

 

[oldag]

It’s actually pretty easy to do, especially if you know which sites *should* have activity on any given day or not.

Any idea how many different contractors are out in the patch? And how much their schedules vary? These are not milk runs. How many square miles are involved?

Maybe ECSD has staffed up a great deal since I was in that part of the world.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Any idea how many different contractors are out in the patch? And how much their schedules vary? These are not milk runs. How many square miles are involved?

Maybe ECSD has staffed up a great deal since I was in that part of the world.

There’s a multitude of different ways to look at the problem. But let’s take one concept, the cell phone. Because just about everyone has a cell booster out there.

In the known cell coverage areas, compare a list of known ‘good guy’ numbers/IMEIs against what’s active. Color the known good guy #s blue and filter out.

Now filter out all moving #s; search for remaining #s that stop inside a geofenced area. Check if those #s are matched with a blue number. That starts to neck down items of interest.

Fairly simple to implement and conduct that kind of activity. But we’re still right of bang. Add known bad guy #s/IMEIs and color them red; now we’re moving closer to left of bang.

It’s not foolproof, but it’s easy to start up, automate, and let run. Layer that with other info from CBP, DEA, LE agencies and you start filtering for prioritization.

 

[popper]

Those crooks have perfected the method of stealin oil long time ago. Biggest problem (other than theft) is they cut the like, take what they can and let the rest drain onto the ground. Mexico has tried the armed guards but they get paid off.

 

[oldag]

There’s a multitude of different ways to look at the problem. But let’s take one concept, the cell phone. Because just about everyone has a cell booster out there.

In the known cell coverage areas, compare a list of known ‘good guy’ numbers/IMEIs against what’s active. Color the known good guy #s blue and filter out.

Now filter out all moving #s; search for remaining #s that stop inside a geofenced area. Check if those #s are matched with a blue number. That starts to neck down items of interest.

Fairly simple to implement and conduct that kind of activity. But we’re still right of bang. Add known bad guy #s/IMEIs and color them red; now we’re moving closer to left of bang.

It’s not foolproof, but it’s easy to start up, automate, and let run. Layer that with other info from CBP, DEA, LE agencies and you start filtering for prioritization.

And how does one get a list of all the "good guy" numbers for that many contractors spread across goodness knows how many companies?

 

[Hoji]

And how does one get a list of all the "good guy" numbers for that many contractors spread across goodness knows how many companies?

Same way they made all of the J6 arrests and the same way Dinesh D’Souza got the info for 2000 Mules

 

[toddnjoyce]

And how does one get a list of all the "good guy" numbers for that many contractors spread across goodness knows how many companies?

One simple place to start is for oil companies to provide company owned numbers. But if all you’re looking for is excuses to not honor a threat, any old one will do.

 

[toddnjoyce]

To give folks an idea of what the state of the state is, this company provides contract persistent aerial surveillance capabilities fairly economically across a variety of sectors.

Situational Awareness & ISR - Aerostar

Aerostar provides life-saving solutions to enhance situational awareness and safety. Solving great challenges is at the core of our identity.

aerostar.com

 

[TJjerry]

Far cry from the days in Houston where they posted 2 officers with shotguns in the back room of 7-11 stores. After they shot a couple it was amazing how the robberies decreased.
Here is an idea. Give the oil companies "immunity" from prosecution/liability if their security personnel have to shoot thieves on premise after hours. Kinda like they gave to the Drug companies to experiment on people.