MS-13
Members of the MS-13 gang gather at the central park of the city of Sonsonate, 65 Km west of San Salvador, on February 8, 2012. Leaders of the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs agreed to stop homicides in the city of Sonsonate, as part of the truce process between gangs to reduce crimes in El Salvador.
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In the past few months, according to gang members and Salvadoran police officials, Los Zetas and the MS-13 have reached a more favorable and lucrative arrangement in human trafficking, whereby the Mexicans have greatly expanded their reach
There have been important efforts, many of them successful, by Los Zetas to recruit the best and most skilled MS-13 killers and gunmen, both in El Salvador and Guatemala
All the middlemen traffickers (polleros or coyotes) who use the routes controlled by Los Zetas are MS-13 members.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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MS-13 gang leaders guilty in 2010 slayings
five weeks of testimony, jurors Thursday rapidly found two leaders of the MS-13 street gang guilty in connection with four murders and conspiracy after the fact in a fifth slaying -- including the deaths of a young mother and her toddler son -- over six weeks Read more »
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Expert: Same gun used in 4 of 5 MS-13 killings
killing has not been recovered.Testimony at the trial in U.S. District Court in Central Islip has indicated that members of MS-13 had few guns and the weapons were passed around to be used by local chapters.Hopkins said he found that shell casings recovered Read more »
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FBI agent testifies about killings
into the five killings, said that in the Sandler case , Ortega confessed that he and three other members or associates of MS-13 "were looking for rivals" on the night of February 17, 2010."They called a Latin King that sold marijuana," and he met Sandler, Read more »
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Cop: SUV lead to MS-13 murder cases
Mario Quijada on the beach; and the driver and the two men who had been walking toward him were in handcuffs, including MS-13 leader Heriberto Martinez. The third man escaped.Martinez, 25, of Far Rockaway, is on trial, along with MS-member Carlos Ortega, 23, Read more »
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Medical examiner testifies in MS-13 trial
Suffolk medical examiner Odette Hall testified in U.S. District Court in Central Islip at the trial of two leaders of the MS-13 street gang, under questioning by Eastern District federal prosecutor Carrie Capwell.Hall said she performed autopsies on the bodies Read more »
Around the web
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Federal jury in gang case to continue work Monday
The reputed leader of a local clique of the national MS-13 gang faces up to two life terms plus 43 years when a federal jury resumes deliberations Monday on charges of murder, maiming, and conspiracy. The charges against Jose Armando Bran, 30, are linked 5/17/13 from Richmond Times-Dispatch Read more »
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Local MS-13 trial begins in federal court
When Jose A. Bran declared that the “beast needed to be fed,” it meant it was time for Osbin Noel Hernandez-Gonzales to die, a federal prosecutor said Monday in court. The prosecutor, Roderick C. Young, told a jury in federal court in Richmond that Bran from Richmond Times-Dispatch Read more »
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Woman Sentenced for Recruiting Teen to Trafficking Ring
A Maryland woman received 132 months in jail Friday for recruiting a 15-year-old, pregnant runaway to engage in commercial sex acts for a trafficking ring with ties to the MS-13 street gang. Yanira del Carmen Guerrero Andrade, 28, was sentenced by U.S. D from NBC Washington Read more »
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Illegal alien sentenced for luring pregnant teen into MS-13 sex ring
An illegal alien living in Prince George's County was sentenced to 11 years in prison for recruiting a pregnant teenage runaway into working as a prostitute for violent street gang MS-13. Twenty-eight-year-old Yanira Del Carmen Guerrero Andrade befriende from Washington Examiner Read more »
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MS-13 member captured after posting ad for his pony and moon bounce rental business [PICTURE]
Dilbert Coreas, a Salvadoran immigrant living in Palm Beach, Florida has been arrested on federal charges and is awaiting deportation (for a second time) after police recognized him as a member of MS-13. They were able to find Coreas from the pictures he from Kaus Files Read more »
