Archive for December 5, 2023

Melvi Amador-Rios, a.k.a. “Letal” and “Pinky,” Also Sentenced for Ordering a Non-Fatal Shooting That Left Victim Paralyzed and Participating in Multiple Armed RobberiesEarlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Melvi Amador-Rios, a leader of the Centrales Locos Salvatruchas (CLS) clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, was sentenced by…

The deaths of two men just hours apart in Silver Spring, Maryland, in November are both gang related, prosecutors say. Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said a planned gang execution took place about 6 p.m. Nov. 9 in a ravine behind an apartment complex on Piney Branch Road. “The reason that we are now…

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Hundreds of MS-13 gang members are currently active in Maryland. The gang is known for its brutality; using machetes to behead vulnerable, young victims. While they’ve been mostly active in D.C. suburbs, MS-13 is increasingly spreading into the Baltimore area. Last July, MS-13 gang members stalked a man in Towson. Ten people…

Co-Defendant Sentenced to Six Years for His Participation in the GangGreenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Hernan Yanes-Rivera, a/k/a “Recio,” age 22, of Adelphi, Maryland, on July 28, 2023, to 22 years in federal prison, and sentenced Agustino Eugenio Rivas Rodriguez, a/k/a “Terrible,” age 26, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to 16…

John Turscak is a former Mexican Mafia gang leader and FBI informant who is accused of stabbing former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin 22 times in a Tucson, Arizona, prison law library. Chauvin is incarcerated in the death of George Floyd. On December 1, 2023, the United States Attorney’s Office “filed a criminal complaint charging…

A San Diego area criminal street gang member has been sentenced to a 55 years to life, plus an additional 26 years in the slammer for the 2019 deadly shooting of an Alpha Project security guard, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. The defendant, Johnny Hill, has faced justice for his role…

HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Johnny Jenkins-Armstrong, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced on December 4, 2023, to life imprisonment for his role in the June 25, 2016 murders of three individuals in Mercersburg, Franklin County, one of whom was cooperating with state and…

Three suspects have been arrested on murder charges in a shooting which left three men dead at a home in a gated Porter Ranch community back in February. Travis Reid and Chaquetta Cook were arrested Wednesday in the Baltimore, Md., area, Los Angeles police disclosed at a news conference Thursday. A third suspect, Kenneth Peterson,…

BATON ROUGE – Members of a Baton Rouge street gang were formally charged Friday. Bradley Payne, Jermonte Clark, Tawayne Bridgewater, and three juveniles were accused of being apart of the “Never Broke Again North Side Ranger” street gang. For more than a year, Baton Rouge police have targeted gang violence in the city. Friday a…