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The group operates in at least 42 states and washington d c.
Ms 13. Attorney general william barr told reporters in the oval office that the justice department also will seek the death penalty in an older case involving ms 13 leader alexi saenz. Furthermore prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for another ms 13 leader alexi saenz in long island new york. It is considered one of the top transnational organized crime threats in the united. The main charge relates to the murder of.
These are truths that no one disputes. Over time the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization. La mara salvatrucha known colloquially and infamously as ms 13 is a vicious barbaric street gang. And boasts more than 6 000.
Guevara castro is charged in a 24 count indictment along with seven other members of ms 13 with racketeering offenses murder and drug trafficking. He was charged in seven slayings including the murders of two teenagers. 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.
Ms 13 is a ruthless savage gang which commits acts of violence to recruit retain and control its members and exact revenge on its rivals as well as to extort innocent members of our. Ms 13 is short for mara salvatrucha but the criminal organization is better known by its abbreviation. Ms 13 known as mara salvatrucha originated decades ago among salvadoran immigrants in los angeles and has since built a criminal network that extends across the us with thriving pockets in the. Now in as many as 40 states across the u s ms 13 members murder and rape maim and terrorize.