MS-13 gang responsible for disappearance, death of Annapolis teenager

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/ms-13-gang-responsible-disappearance-death-annapolis-teen An MS-13 gang leader has pleaded guilty in New York to nine murders between 2016 and 2017, including the disappearance and death of Annapolis teenager David Rivera. At least two other alleged members have also been indicted in the killing. Described as a regional leader of MS-13’s “Hollywood” clique, David Sosa-Guevara was convicted of…

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US Border Patrol Special Operations Unit arrest suspected gang members in DC

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/us-border-patrol-special-operations-unit-arrest-suspected-gang-members-washington-dc-tactical-unit-fbi-homeland-security-tda-members-ms13-foreign-terrorist-organization-narcos-venezuela-drug-trafficking-weapons-white-house-justice-department WASHINGTON (7News) — A U.S. Border Patrol Special Operations Group arrested more than a dozen suspected gang members in the D.C. metro area this month. The Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), the National Gang Unit, the FBI and Homeland Security all worked together in the operation that resulted in the arrests of 14 Tren de…

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Niger declares three days of mourning after mosque attack kills 44

The government of Niger has declared three days of mourning following an attack on a mosque in the country’s southwest that killed at least 44 people. The victims were killed in a “savage” armed assault in the Fambita quarter of the rural border town of Kokorou, the interior ministry said in a statement broadcast on…

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Walmart gunman won’t face the death penalty

Patrick Crusius, who has admitted to killing 23 people and wounding 22 others in a racist mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, will no longer face the death penalty, El Paso Matters has learned. District Attorney James Montoya, who took office on Jan. 1, called family members of those killed on Monday…

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Man convicted of plotting 9/11-style attack asks for new lawyers at sentencing

The sentencing of Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a Kenyan national who was convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on the United States, was adjourned Monday after he asked for new lawyers. “I was thinking of having new lawyers who will represent me,” said Abdullah, who represented himself during the trial last year that ended with him…

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