Boing Boing: Guatemalan prison gangs use mobile phones to coordinate shooting war

Monday, August 15, 2005

Guatemalan prison gangs use mobile phones to coordinate shooting war

Rival gang members in a notorious Guatemalan prison are using smuggled heavy armaments (automatic rifles and grenades?!) and mobile phones to coordinate all out war in the cells.

Officials said a fearsome array of weaponry - including knives, automatic rifles and hand grenades - had been smuggled into the prisons...
The gangs appear to have coordinated the fighting using mobile telephones, said Guatemala's Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann.

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