MS-13 - Wikipedia
Federal prosecutors have indicted numerous MS-13 gang members on racketeering, extortion, prostitution, kidnapping, illegal immigration, money laundering, murder, people smuggling, arms trafficking, human trafficking and drug trafficking charges; the targeted special agent was the lead federal investigator on many of the federal cases. [160]
MS-13 gang: The story behind one of the world's most brutal …
Apr 19, 2017 · A string of brutal murders in the US has thrown a national spotlight on MS-13, a street gang that was born in LA but has roots in El Salvador. The latest was a mass murder on Monday on Long...
MS-13, which is short for La Mara Salvatrucha, is a gang composed primarily of immigrants or descendants of immigrants from El Salvador. In the United States, MS-13 has been functioning since at least the 1980s. The name “Mara Salvatrucha” is a combination of several slang terms.
What Is MS-13 and Why Is It So Scary? | HowStuffWorks
La Mara Salvatrucha, known colloquially and infamously as MS-13, is a vicious, barbaric street gang. Now in as many as 40 states across the U.S., MS-13 members murder and rape, maim and terrorize.
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) | Britannica
Aug 20, 2024 · Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), international gang involved in drug and human smuggling, prostitution, murder, and extortion, among other illegal activities. It was founded in Los Angeles in the 1980s by immigrants from El Salvador and later spread throughout the United States, Central America, and Canada, gaining a reputation for extreme violence.
MS-13 gang member pleads guilty to role in 4 deaths, including …
Sep 1, 2023 · Enrique Portillo, 26, was among several gang members accused of ambushing best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, in retaliation for a dispute among high school students in 2016.
MS-13 gang leader known as ‘Reaper’ is sentenced to life in prison
Apr 2, 2022 · An MS-13 gang leader whose brutality a federal prosecutor described as “almost unfathomable” has been sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy to commit murder in the aid of racketeering...
What is MS-13? The ‘transnational’ street gang on the FBI’s radar
Mar 3, 2017 · MS-13 recruits new members through the internet and absorbs rival street gangs. MS-13 became so powerful that the FBI started a MS-13 National Gang Task Force in 2004.
MS-13 Facts: What Is the MS-13 Street Gang? - TIME
May 17, 2017 · Hundreds of federal and local law enforcement fanned out across Los Angeles, serving arrest and search warrants as part of a three-year investigation into the violent and brutal street gang...
MS-13 suspects linked to Mexican Mafia leader ... - Los Angeles Times
Nov 14, 2023 · Two years after Zaragoza was nearly killed, seven MS-13 inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas, attacked a group of Sureños, gang members who answer to the Mexican Mafia.