Meredith Munoz of Pash
@ Fort Reno
Q:What's your song for summer?
A:"'Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before' by the Smiths, hands down."
New Indictments in MS-13 Gang Case
PRESSURE on the MS-13 gang continues to increase, with a federal jury in Greenbelt on Tuesday indicting accused leaders of the Salvadoran gang operating in the Maryland suburbs, including one man, Saul Antonio Turcios Angel, who prosecutors say directed an Oct. 9, 2005, fatal double shooting in Riverdale from his jail cell in El Salvador.
The Post's Ruben Castaneda reports on the possible motivations behind the shooting:
The two men who were killed, Jose Cerda and Edward Trujillo, were targeted because they were believed to be members of a rival gang, said an investigator with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who declined to be identified because the case is ongoing. ATF is part of a task force of local and federal investigators who have been probing MS-13 and other Latino gangs since 2003.Turcios Angel and two others who were charged in the new indictment remain in Salvadoran prisons, where a lack of extradition treaties places them out of the reach of U.S. prosecutors.
In 2005, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland charged 22 MS-13 members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, Castaneda reports. Tuesday's indictments bring the number of people the state has indicted under RICO to 30; of those, five have been tried and convicted by federal juries on racketeering charges, while another nine have pleaded guilty to racketeering or related charges.
»"MS-13 Case Adds Salvadoran Inmates" [WaPo]
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