Santa Cruz-area MS-13 members sentenced for murder conspiracy, racketeering
Two Santa Cruz men who are reputed members of the of the infamous La Mara Salvatrucha gang, also known as MS-13, have been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
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Two Santa Cruz men who are reputed members of the of the infamous La Mara Salvatrucha gang, also known as MS-13, have been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
A self-confessed member of the infamous Mara Salvatrucha criminal organization, also known as MS-13, was sentenced to over five years in prison for possessing a "ghost gun" or an untraceable firearm.
The leader of a brutally violent San Francisco MS-13 street gang was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole after being convicted of murder and attempted murder as part of a racketeering conspiracy, prosecutors announced.
Building on an earlier investigation and indictment, a federal grand jury has returned charges against 13 alleged members of MS-13's notorious San Francisco-based 20th Street Clique in connection with three separate murders.
Federal prosecutors announced the grand jury indictment of 17 alleged MS-13 gang members and their associates Friday for a reign of terror on San Francisco streets that included a series of vicious assaults and other crimes.
A notorious MS-13 gang leader in Santa Cruz has leaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit murder and extortion charges and faces 27 years in federal prison, authorities announced Friday.
Members and associates of the MS-13 gang committed seven murders including several in which victims were hacked to death with machetes in a Southern California forest, according to a federal indictment released Tuesday.
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A dozen alleged members of an MS-13 gang in Santa Cruz have been accused in a revised indictment by a federal grand jury in San Jose of charges including murder, drug trafficking and racketeering.
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Sentencing was delayed Monday for Edwin Ramos, an alleged MS-13 gang member convicted last month of murdering a father and two of his sons in San Francisco, but the victims' family members got a chance to address Ramos in court Monday morning.
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