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MS-13 Gang Members Convicted Of Killing 19-Year-Old Over Defaced Graffiti In Maryland Woods
Three MS-13 street gang members have become the first to be convicted in Montgomery County of participation in a criminal organization resulting in the death of a 19-year-old, the state's attorney's office announced on Tuesday. Junior Francisco Del-Cid, 20, of Takoma Park, Elmer Lopez-Cortez, 25, and Elvin Guzman-Machado, 20, both of Silver Spring, are facing multiple life sentences for their roles in the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Willians Anderson Alberto Cruz in November 2022. Police say that at approximately 4 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2022, officers were called to the 100 bloc…
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Gang Member Who Pointed Police To Body Of Teen In Shallow Grave Admits To Maryland Murder
A man with no known address admitted to his role in the murder of an 18-year-old girl who was found buried in a shallow grave in Montgomery County, the state's attorney's office announced on Friday. Roberto Rivera-Delgado, 23, pleaded guilty to murder and other offenses in connection to the murder of Rosa Sanchez Merino in May 2023 with three others. Iris Yudella Alonzo-Salgado, 23, Aracely Abarca-Melgar, 21, and Edwin Alexander Rivas-Salvador, 16 have also been implicated in the incident. According to police, Rivera-Delgado was arrested for a parole violation in Nevada and broug…
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Drive-By Shooting Of Alexandria Worker On I-295 Ends With Murder Conviction For District Man
An El Salvadorian MS-13 member who shot and killed a man he believed to be involved in the death of his father years ago has been convicted of murder in Washington, DC, federal authorities announced. District resident Oscar Ramos, 35, was found guilty by a jury in connection to a May 2015 shooting that killed 50-year-old Pedro Melendez Alvarado and injured 56-year-old Miguel Rodriguez Carabantes during an incident over a perceived wrongdoing. Both men were from Alexandria. According to prosecutors, Ramos, who is a member of MS-13, was a passenger in a car that was driving north on I-295, …
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MS-13 Leader Gets Life In Prison For Maryland Murders, Racketeering Conspiracy
Another MS-13 gang member in Maryland will spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in a wide-ranging racketeering conspiracy that included multiple murders and federal drug charges. Brayan Contreras-Avalos - also known as “Anonimo,” “Humilde,” and “Malia,” 28, of Langley Park, has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted during a lengthy for his participation in the deadly conspiracy, according to federal officials. Prosecutors say that Contreras-Avalos was the leader of an MS-13 clique operating in Frederick, Anne Arundel, Prince George’s, and Montgomery counties. …
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Body Burning MS-13 Gang Members In Maryland Convicted Of Murdering Suspected Snitch
Three members of the MS-13 street gang in Maryland could spend the rest of their lives behind bars for allegedly killing someone they incorrectly thought was a snitch and then going to extreme lengths in an effort to cover it up, federal officials announced. Maryland residents Jose Domingo Ordonez-Zometa a/k/a “Felon,” 33, of Landover Hills, Jose Rafael Ortega-Ayala, a/k/a Impaciente,” 30, of Greenbelt, and Jose Henry Hernandez-Garcia, a/k/a “Paciente,” 29, of Annandale, Virginia, were convicted for their roles in racketeering and murder conspiracy to further their gang activities. Specific…
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Four Baltimore MS-13 Gang Members Indicted For Violent Racketeering Conspiracy: DOJ
Four more members of the MS-13 street gang in Baltimore have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland for their roles in a violent racketeering conspiracy that included multiple murders and attempted murders, according to the Department of Juste. Federal prosecutors announced that four members of MS-13 from Baltimore with curious nicknames are facing life in prison for the racketeering conspiracy that involved murders and drug trafficking to further their enterprise in Maryland. Those indicted: Wilson Arturo Constanza-Galdomez, also known as “Humilde,” and “Marco Saravia,” 23; E…
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Middle-Man Gets Life In Prison For Role In Maryland Murder-For-Hire Involving Jilted Husband
A third co-conspirator will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted for his role in a murder-for-hire conspiracy in Maryland involving a cheating wife and vengeful husband, federal officials announced. Jose David Navarro Cervellon, 41, of Norcross, Georgia, has been sentenced to life in federal prison after being convicted following an eight-day trial on federal charges for serving as a middle-man involving a husband who wanted his wife killed for cheating, prosecutors announced. Specifically, Cervellon was convicted for the use of interstate commerce facilities in the …
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MS-13 Gang Member Admits To Extorting Maryland Business Owners: DOJ
An MS-13 member in Maryland is facing up to 20 years in prison after admitting to extorting money from businesses to further the exploits of his gang, according to federal officials. Jilmer Hernandez-Alvarado, also known as “Toro,” 27, most recently of Hyattsville, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to extort business owners US District Attorney Erek Barron announced on Tuesday, Aug. 30. “La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13 gang, is an international criminal enterprise that is active throughout the United States, including in Maryland,” officials said. MS-13 in Maryland is…
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DC Gang Member Admits To Kidnapping Conspiracy That Led To Death Of 19-Year-Old
A 23-year-old D.C. resident and street gang member pleaded guilty to a first degree murder charge, officials said. In 2019, Jordan Moreno, "Joker", and two other members of the "Tiny Locos Surenos" group in the 18th Street gang, kidnapped a woman who they believed was associating with another gang, MS-13, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Moreno and the co-conspirators lured the victim to a wooded area in Maryland, where Moreno shot and killed her, authorities reported. Moreno pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping charges related to the death of the 19-year-old woman after plead…
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Man Admits To Role In Maryland Murder-For-Hire Involving Jilted Husband
A third co-conspirator may spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted for his role in a murder-for-hire conspiracy in Maryland involving a cheating wife and vengeful husband, federal officials announced. Jose David Navarro Cervellon, 41, of Norcross, Georgia, was convicted following an eight-day trial on federal charges for serving as a middle-man involving a man who wanted his wife killed for cheating, Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek Barron said. Navarro was an associate of Silver Springs resident Miguel Angel Ayala Rivera, 28, the leader of the Pinos Locos Sal…
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MS-13 Members Found Guilty In Brutal Murders Of 2 Teens In Falls Church: DOJ
Five members of the violent international gang MS-13 were convicted of kidnapping and murdering two Fairfax County teenagers in 2016, prosecutors said. The boys were found in shallow graves at a Falls Church park seven months after they disappeared. An Alexandria jury last week found the men guilty of killing 17-year-old Edvin Escobar Mendez and 14-year-old Sergio Anthony Arita Triminio, the Department of Justice said. The convicted killers now face life sentences in federal prison. MS-13 members killed Mendez in August 2016 because they believed he was a spy for the rival 1…
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MS-13 Gang Members Convicted Of Beating, Sex Trafficking Teen Girl Across Maryland And Virginia
Seven MS-13 gang members from Maryland and Virginia may spend the rest of their life behind bars after being convicted of sex trafficking in federal court for taking in a teenage runaway and coercing her into having commercial sex acts. Federal officials announced the prosecution of the street gang members, who took in the runaway from northern Virginia and introduced her to members of MS-13 in 2018, telling her "they would be her family and protect her if she joined the gang,” prosecutors said. The gang members then proceeded to beat the teen more than two dozen times with a baseball bat …
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Murderous East Coast MS-13 Leader From NJ Sentenced In MD To Life
A Jersey Shore MS-13 overlord who ran the gang’s East Coast operation was sentenced in Maryland to life in federal prison on Friday, April 1 for a “reign of terror” across several states, the U.S. Justice Department announced. Miguel Angel “Reaper” Corea Diaz, 41, of Long Branch, NJ will have to serve out the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. The capture of Corea Diaz was “one of the biggest takedowns of a high-ranking MS-13 leader in the United States," a district attorney in Nassau County said after he was indicted on Long Island in December 2018. Corea Dia…
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ICE Puts Hold On MS-13 Member Captured After Escaping NJ Police Station In Handcuffs
Many figured New Jersey's bail reform law would free a purported MS-13 gang member who escaped from a local police station before being captured in Rhode Island. Before that could happen, however, federal immigration authorities issued a detainer on Adilson Estrada-Garcia, a 24-year-old Guatemalan national living in Cliffside Park. Estrada-Garcia was brought to the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack on Thursday. Before he even saw a judge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the detainer. Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton has honored detainer requests for defendants who've be…
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Captured
! Prisoner Who Escaped From Palisades Park Police HQ Nabbed In Rhode Island
GOTCHA! The manhunt for a purported MS-13 gang member who escaped from Palisades Park police headquarters in handcuffs three days ago ended with his capture in Rhode Island, authorities announced. Working around the clock, Palisades Park police "were right with" Adilson Estrada-Garcia of Cliffside Park when he arrived in Providence to stay with a cousin, Detective Lt. Alex Monteleone said. Members of the US Marshals Rhode Island Violent Fugitive Task Force were notified and nabbed the 24-year-old Guatemalan national without incident at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, March 6, Monteleone said. Estrada-G…
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Manhunt
: Prisoner Escapes From Palisades Park Police HQ
GOTCHA! The manhunt for a purported MS-13 gang member who escaped from Palisades Park police headquarters in handcuffs three days ago ended with his capture in Rhode Island, authorities announced. Working around the clock, Palisades Park police "were right with" Adilson Estrada-Garcia of Cliffside Park when he arrived in Providence to stay with a cousin, Detective Lt. Alex Monteleone said. Members of the US Marshals Rhode Island Violent Fugitive Task Force nabbed the 24-year-old Guatemalan national without incident at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, March 6, Monteleone said. Estrada-Garcia -- whose fami…
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