S.F. family's murderer killed before, FBI was told
An informant told the FBI in 2006 that Edwin Ramos had killed a gang rival in the Mission District, records show, raising questions about why Ramos wasn't taken off the streets before his infamous slaying of a man and his two sons in San Francisco in 2008.
Documents filed in a separate San Francisco murder case say Jaime Martinez, a leader of the MS-13 gang who became a paid government informant - and whose niece was once married to Ramos - met with FBI agents in April 2006.
Martinez told the agents that Ramos, also an MS-13 member, had killed a rival Norteño nicknamed "Chino," using a disguise to sneak up on him and shoot him at 25th and Capp streets, according to the legal filing last week by attorney Dennis Riordan.
Riordan said the information is in an FBI report summarizing an interview by an agent, filed April 11, 2006.
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Furthermore, after Edwin Ramos was arrested, local media revealed that Ramos came to the US illegally as a teenager yet San Francisco law enforcement did not report his presence to the feds despite Ramos being twice convicted of violent crimes as a juvenile. After Ramos became an adult in 2004, he twice applied for legal residency. He was arrested in 2008 (three months before the murder) for traffic and weapon violations, and although police reported Ramos to ICE, ICE declined to place a hold on Ramos. The case has gotten major attention with critics blaming San Francisco's sanctuary city policy for letting Ramos stay. It became a right wing fodder story during the summer of 2008, and the widow of Tony Bologna had a tearful interview on Fox News:
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