Gang leaders in Los Angeles are complaining that their subsidiaries in the Washington area are not getting serious about criminal enterprise. The Post has explored the expanding suburban gang underworld in a series that started Sunday and it says on the gang front, things could get a lot worse, especially with the Salvadoran gang known as Mara Salvatruchas.

From the Post:

Although police in Northern Virginia have been seeing more drugs during arrests of local gang members, some question whether the younger members would ever be interested in establishing permanent criminal enterprises in the Washington suburbs.

But police on both coasts said Mara Salvatrucha is trying to export its business model to the East Coast. The gang’s Los Angeles-based “shot callers” are reportedly impatient with the violent squabbles unfolding in Northern Virginia and are urging the leaders to get serious about making money.

The squabbles the Post talks about includes many instances of random gang warfare not connected to criminal enterprises.

Last week, a Fairfax County youth pleaded guilty to hacking off the hands of another teenager with a machete. While the youth didn’t admit that his action was tied to gang activity, investigators believe that it was a violent flashpoint in the suburban blood feud between the Mara Salvatruchas and the South Side Locos.

In the meantime, the Post reports that federal, state and local police authorities haven’t been coordinating their respective anti-gang activities very well.