FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, January 7, 2022
MS-13 Members and Associates Indicted in Racketeering, Narcotics and Multiple Murder Conspiracies
A federal grand jury in Virginia returned a superseding indictment yesterday charging 12 members and associates of La Mara Salvatrucha, aka MS-13, with a variety of offenses based on their alleged involvement in a series of murders, racketeering and drug trafficking crimes.
Those charged in the indictment are:
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According to the indictment, the defendants were members/associates of the Sitios Locos Salvatrucha clique (STLS) of MS-13.The indictment alleges that since at least in and around 2017, MS-13 members and associates regularly travelled to and from Long Island, New York, for the purpose of obtaining cocaine and transporting it to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, where they and other gang members would sell it primarily, in restaurants and night clubs.
The indictment also charges eight of the defendants with several offenses stemming from their alleged involvement in four murders that occurred in Eastern Prince William County between June 22, 2019, and Sept. 24, 2019. Specifically, the indictment charges:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ms-13-members-and-associates-indicted-racketeering-narcotics-and-multiple-murder-conspiracies
