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Sep 1, 2023 · MS-13 gang member pleads guilty to role in 4 deaths, including two teenage girls who were attacked with machetes. Enrique Portillo, 26, was among several gang members accused of ambushing best...
Mar 21, 2024 · FBI. CNN — After four years on the run, a senior leader of MS-13 – one of the largest transnational criminal organizations – was captured this month in Southern California on terrorism charges,...
Feb 28, 2024 · The Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13, is perhaps the most notorious street gang in the Western Hemisphere. While it has its origins in the poor, refugee-laden neighborhoods of 1980s Los Angeles, the gang’s reach now spans from Central America to Europe. A predatory criminal organization, the MS13 lives mostly from extortion.
Jun 21, 2023 · The indictment detailed a number of murders and attempted murders carried out by MS-13 gang members against rival gangs as well as their own members, often using guns and machetes.
Aug 31, 2023 · The girls, Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15, were killed in 2016 by Enrique Portillo and two other members of MS-13, prosecutors said.
May 1, 2024 · MS-13 got its start as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles but grew into a transnational gang based in El Salvador. It has members in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, and...
Jun 21, 2023 · A 48-count, superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging 23 alleged members and associates of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the “MS-13,” with racketeering conspiracy and related offenses, including multiple murders and other acts of violence ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Jandres-Parada and 13 other high-ranking MS-13 leaders were indicted in December 2020 on terrorism offenses relating to their direction of the transnational criminal organization’s criminal activities in the United States, El Salvador, Mexico and elsewhere over the past two decades.
Mar 21, 2024 · A senior leader of the MS-13 street gang who was one of the FBI’s most wanted gang fugitives was quietly arrested earlier this month at the California-Mexico border on narco-terrorism charges,...
Nov 15, 2023 · In order to extract those benefits and concessions from the GOES, MS-13 engaged in public displays of violence to threaten and intimidate civilian populations, targeted GOES law enforcement and military officials, and manipulated the electoral process in El Salvador.
