Black Panther Torture "Trial" Tape Surfaces

"There is no question that Charlotte is a hub for MS-13 activity," says Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Zolot, who works in the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Western District of North Carolina. "But this case really put a dent in MS-13."

Zolot was one of the key prosecutors in the MS-13 proceedings. He says a main reason the case worked was because of two informants who turned against MS-13 in order to help the Feds. These two informants secretly taped MS-13 gang meetings in Charlotte and Greensboro. The Feds translated the tapes before publicly releasing them to WBTV.

In one you see a handful of guys standing in a living room, talking in fast Spanish.

"About the deal in Charlotte, there are a s***load of dudes that are snitches," says Julio Cesar Rosales Lopez, who goes by the gang name "Stiler". "Since we are the big hood, before doing anything else, we need to take out those pieces too. You know, homeboys," he says to the group standing around him, "if there is a dude who pisses off the hood, well, he can't be forgiven. Understand?"