Two members of MS-13 were indicted on October 4, 2023, and charged with with multiple racketeering offenses in connection with two murders, a narcotics trafficking conspiracy, as well as with related charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, fi
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A kingpin at the center of a narcotics trafficking plot on behalf of notorious gangs MS-13 and the Mexican Mafia received over 17 years in prison this week. 52-year-old Nelson "Mula" Alexander Flores was sentenced for trafficking large quantities of
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Several members of the MS-13 gang operating in Maryland were sentenced this and last week for their participation in a racketeering conspiracy, including murder, related to their activities as part of the violent group.
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A member of MS-13 in Maryland went off to prison last week. 26-year-old Franklyn Edgardo Sanchez, who goes by the nicknames “Freddy,” “Magic,” “Miclo,” and “Delinquente,” was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison on Friday, for his participation in
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Four Northern Virginia MS-13 gang members were sentenced on Wednesday to prison sentences of 10 and 20 years for drug distribution, racketeering, and their roles in two attempted murders in Prince William County in 2019.
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Five members of MS-13 received sentences of life imprisonment last week for their roles in the kidnapping and murder of two adolescent boys in 2016. The group stabbed and chopped the boys with knives, machetes, and a pickaxe. One killing was filmed a
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One of the highest-ranking leaders of MS-13 in the United States was sentenced last week to life in prison for his role in multiple violent crimes. 33-year-old Andy Tovar is seen as the one who ordered a murder in Charlottesville in 2017 and two att
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A federal jury on Thursday found three members of MS-13 guilty of racketeering, murder, extortion, and drug charges after a 3-week trial. 41-year-old Luis Flores-Reyes, 40-year-old Jairo Jacome, and 27-year-old Brayan Contreras-Avalos face life in pr
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The American Mafia had its hands in many pies, but it could always fall back on its core rackets. Among them the relatively simple act of extortion. With its name feared far and wide it was easy to frighten business owners into paying up. Though MS-1
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Ten alleged members of MS-13 were hit with racketeering and murder charges last week in Texas. They are alleged to have engaged in a racketeering conspiracy involving murder, extortion, drug trafficking, robbery and obstruction of justice starting in
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Seven MS-13 gangsters were convicted last week of sex trafficking a 13-year-old girl who ran away from a youth home in Northern Virginia in August of 2018 and other child sexual exploitation offenses.
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The underworld sees a continuous war for supremacy. Both on the streets and behind bars. Despite the high risk of capture, inmates affiliated with a gang will go to extremes to achieve dominance within the prison system. The Mexican Mafia, also known
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A violent MS-13 gang boss of a Massachusetts “Sykos Locos Salvatrucha” clique was sentenced on last week in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy. 32-year-old Djavier “Haze” Duggins will serve a 15-year prison term.
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Nothing exemplifies the ruthlessness of the underworld like the murder of youngsters, teenagers, over stupid gangster issues. In its quest for control over America’s gangland, MS-13 took no prisoners and ordered its members to go to extremes. Even wh
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