Ms 13 Gang

A 31 year old virginia man is pleading guilty after admitting to his a role in an ms 13 gang murder that took place in columbus in 2015.

Ms 13 gang. Devillers announced tuesday that jose daniel gonzalez campos was the eighteenth gang member or associate to plead guilty to federal conspiracy charges filed in 2018. Federal officials say ms 13 is to blame for decades of gang violence and drug activity across the country. The gang responsible for dozens of gruesome deaths throughout the u s was designated a priority. Ms 13 or mara salvatrucha is a notoriously violent gang that originated in los angeles in the 1980s.

It is considered one. Ms 13 is the only street gang designated by the treasury department as a transnational criminal organization. Ms 13 is predominantly made up of salvadoran immigrants who sought refuge in the united states during the salvadoran civil war and is known for aggressive crimes throughout central and north america. Mara salvatrucha commonly known as ms 13 is an international criminal organization and gang that was founded in los angeles in the 1970s and 1980s originally the gang was set up to protect salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the los angeles area.

One of president trump s main goals in office is to combat the notoriously violent ms 13 gang. In 2012 as a transnational criminal organization composed primarily of immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Ms 13 formally la mara salvatrucha was the first gang to be labeled by the u s. An alleged member of ms 13 named in a national federal crackdown on the street gang in july has been arrested in el salvador in connection with a killing in nassau county four years ago.

Since it was founded it has spread to more than a half dozen countries and become a central. Ms 13 gang members arrested in maryland man s ambush killing ms 13 is believed to have been founded by immigrants in los angeles who had fled war in el salvador in the 1980s. Members usually try to recruit middle and high school students according to the fbi.