One of the most notorious and violent criminal organizations globally, MS-13 originated in the 1980s in Los Angeles, ...

Santa Cruz-Based MS-13 Gang Members to Serve Over 20 Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Racketeering ...

Alex Sanchez is a former high-ranking member of MS-13. He became involved in the gang in the 1980s in Los Angeles and participated in its expansion. Sanchez was deported to El Salvador in 1994 ...

There, authorities say, he continued to run MS-13's extensive transnational operations. Under the gang's power structure, bottom-rung cliques operate in regional tiers and zones, whose leaders ...

Erick Escalante-Torres and Jose Noe Ramirez-Avelar, were sentenced to 27 years and 11 months and 22 years in prison, respectively, for racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit murder in aid of ...

A federal judge has sentenced two former Santa Cruz-based gang members to more than two decades each of prison time.

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station arrested an alleged member of the violent street gang ...

Sentencing for six MS-13 gang members charged with racketeering conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy and the murder of four men concluded today in federal court. The six defendants were allegedly ...

U.S. Border Patrol agents Friday morning assigned to the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station arrested a man identified as a ...

The Salvadoran-based gang La Mara Salvatrucha, known as MS-13, had established a Santa Cruz-based arm rewarding members’ criminal activities benefitting the gang, including violent crimes such ...