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An MS-13 member, René Pacheco, boasted in Canada of being a member. In 2018 he faced a deportation order. [172] In 2018, Jose Villanueva was lured to his death by several MS-13 members. Karla Jackelin Morales was an MS-13 member and escaped by removing her ankle bracelet. A $5,000 reward was being given for information leading to her capture.
Mara Salvatrucha. Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that emerged in Los Angeles, California in the second half of the 1980s. This gang was founded by Salvadoran migrants. Over time, Mara Salvatrucha grew rapidly in size. Mara Salvatrucha members compete with the earlier existing M-18.
Walter Martinez, a then-16-year-old illegal immigrant, was able to attend classes at Edgewood High School in Harford County for several months in late 2022 as cops probed the gruesome death of 20 ...
The US treasury department has imposed sanctions on members in MS-13 by freezing assets that are related to the gang's activities. [77] [78] Sanctions were imposed on six members in June 2013 and three members in April 2015. [77] [78] The sanctions in 2013 followed the lines of Executive Order 13581.
Even in the violent world of the MS-13 street gang, the killings in northern Virginia in the summer of 2019 stood out. In that year, “the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area became an MS-13 ...
Federal authorities in Los Angeles charged 23 suspected members and associates of the MS-13 gang, alleging that one of the group's leaders in California is a powerful Mexican Mafia figure who ...
MS-13 is more than twice the size of Barrio 18, the second-most prominent gang in El Salvador. Together, the two account for almost all of the nation's gang violence. [10] Other notable gangs in El Salvador include Mao Mao, Miranda Loca, and La Maquina. [11] MS-13 has been a central focus of the Salvadoran government's current crackdown.
Armed police from Marylands Prince Georges County Anti-Gang Unit question and detain a confirmed gang member of Mara Salvatrucha 13, or MS-13, April 20, 2006 in Langley Park, Maryland.