The Texas Syndicate is a mostly Texas-based street and prison gang with predominantly Mexican American membership, founded in 1978 at Folsom State Prison in California. It engages in drug trafficking, extortion, prostitution, protection, illegal gambling, and contract killing. The gang has approximately 1,300 members and operates in prisons and streets across the United States, with strong ties to the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.
CRIMENET has extracted 30 linkages for this organization, including 15 cooperative ties across 4 organizations, 15 conflicts across 7 organizations and footprints in 1 country.
Gang members smuggle multikilogram-quantities of powdered cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, and multiton-quantities of marijuana from Mexico into the U.S. for distribution inside and outside prison.