The Changing Face of Organized Crime in the US

The Mafia may be a notorious footnote in U.S. history, but law enforcement is battling a violent new breed of international criminals and gangs.

Accused MS-13 gang member Alexi Saenz is escorted by FBI agents in Central Islip, N.Y., on March 2, 2017. James Carbone/Newsday via AP

As the snow and icy rain began to fall on that early winter morning in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, something big was going down.

They did not know it, but Jan. 20, 2011, was the beginning of the end for the Mafia.