A Salvadoran national and member of La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) was sentenced Feb. 13, 2025 to 50 years in prison for conspiracy relating to his participation in the gang’s criminal enterprise, ...

Elmer De Jesus Alas Candray was promoted for his work killing suspected rivals and rebels within the Salvadoran group.

Torres, 29, led the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside clique on Long Island, while Sosa-Guevara, 33, commanded the Hollywood Locos Salvatruchas. Lopez-Morales, 36, served as a high-ranking member.

The ‘extraordinarily violent’ Venezuelan gang is the latest source of US hallucinations about horrors of migration.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WRIC) — The last defendant of the six La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members who were convicted in two separate federal trials was sentenced on Tuesday, June 18. The six MS-13 ...

Two MS-13 gang members were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday. Elmer Lopez-Cortez, 25, of Silver Spring, and Junior Del-Cid, 21, of Takoma Park… Read More ...

MS-13 is also known as Mara Salvatrucha and is believed to have been founded as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s by people fleeing civil war in El Salvador.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of an alleged MS-13 gang member during a routine immigration enforcement ...

Rodas Ramirez, who is apparently of Salvadoran origin, is a member of the MS-13 gang, according to a November 2011 version of the U.S. Department of Justice. The drug trafficker, alias “El ...