Virginia Gang Members Sentenced to Decades in Prison for Kidnapping and Murder

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/virginia-gang-members-sentenced-decades-prison-kidnapping-and-murder Hezekiah Carney, 26, of Norfolk, Virginia, and Jayquan Jones, 22, of Richmond, Virginia, were each sentenced today to 38 years in prison for federal charges relating to the kidnapping and murder of a fellow Almighty Black P. Stone gang member. A total of four defendants have now been sentenced as part of the case.…

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MS-13 gang member with weapons conviction arrested in Maryland

https://www.nottinghammd.com/2025/02/10/ms-13-gang-member-with-weapons-conviction-arrested-in-maryland/  BALTIMORE, MD—An MS-13 gang member convicted of possessing a loaded handgun was arrested in Maryland earlier this month, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. German Ronal Del Cid Carranza, 33, was taken into custody by ICE in Silver Spring on February 4, 2025 after he was arrested by Prince George’s County Police in Sept. 2022. Del Cid was…

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54-Count Federal Indictment Charges 12 Members and Associates of Mongols Motorcycle Gang With Racketeering Conspiracy and Three Others With Various Federal Crimes Including Large Scale Drug Trafficking

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/54-count-federal-indictment-charges-12-members-and-associates-mongols-motorcycle-gang A 54-count superseding indictment was unsealed today, charging 12 members and associates of the Mongols Motorcycle Gang (Mongols) with racketeering conspiracy, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.  Three other individuals were charged with…

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Virginia Gang Members Sentenced to Decades in Prison for Kidnapping and Murder

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/virginia-gang-members-sentenced-decades-prison-kidnapping-and-murder Hezekiah Carney, 26, of Norfolk, Virginia, and Jayquan Jones, 22, of Richmond, Virginia, were each sentenced today to 38 years in prison for federal charges relating to the kidnapping and murder of a fellow Almighty Black P. Stone gang member. A total of four defendants have now been sentenced as part of the case.…

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PDS Gang Member Pleads Guilty to Discharging Firearm During and in Relation to Drug Trafficking

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/pds-gang-member-pleads-guilty-discharging-firearm-during-and-relation-drug-trafficking Defendant Admitted to Participating in “Rolling Shootout” Targeting Rival Gang             WASHINGTON – Isjalon Jermiah Armstead, 22, of Washington D.C., pleaded guilty today in connection with an indictment charging numerous members of the Push Dat Shit (PDS) street gang with distributing large quantities of marijuana in the District of…

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Salvadoran national and MS-13 member arrested by ICE in Maryland

https://www.mytexasdaily.com/south-texas/salvadoran-national-and-ms-13-member-arrested-by-ice-in-maryland/article_8fc39bd9-67a7-587a-a4a7-bce09a1f6fdd.html ROMA, Texas— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has apprehended a 19-year-old Salvadoran national and MS-13 gang member in Hyattsville, Maryland. Anderson Geovany Romero was arrested on January 25 after being released from custody by the Prince George’s Detention Center, which did not honor an immigration detainer. Romero, who is undocumented, faces pending criminal…

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First images of ICE mass deportation efforts show arrests of MS-13 gang members, murder suspects

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-images-ice-mass-deportation-efforts-show-arrests-ms-13-gang-members-murder-suspects Trump administration moving rapidly to fulfill mass deportation promise Fox News embedded exclusively with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Boston as the agency targeted egregious criminal aliens, including MS-13 gang members and murder suspects, as part of mass deportation efforts under President Donald Trump. Fox News witnessed ICE Boston make eight arrests, including multiple MS-13, Interpol…

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Member of Transnational Criminal Street Gang ‘18th Street’ Sentenced to 40 Years for Rockville Triple Shooting Resulting in Death of 22-Year-Old Male Victim

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/member-transnational-criminal-street-gang-18th-street-sentenced-40-years-rockville Defendant Committed the Killing to Increase His Standing in the Gang            WASHINGTON – Cesar De La O Rodriguez, 21, a citizen of El Salvador and a member of the violent transnational criminal street gang known as 18th Street, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 40 years in…

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Three High-Ranking MS-13 Gang Members Plead Guilty to Racketeering Charges in Connection With Nine Murders

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/three-high-ranking-ms-13-gang-members-plead-guilty-racketeering-charges-connection Two Defendants Were the New York Leaders of the Gang’s Hollywood and Sailors Cliques Earlier today and on January 16, 2025, in federal court in Central Islip, three members of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, pleaded guilty to multiple crimes, including nine murders committed on Long…

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7th suspect in Stamford double-stabbing caught in Maryland after months on run, police say

https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/stamford-attempted-murder-chavez-perez-stabbing-20033958.php STAMFORD — “I killed him, dude,” Julio “Chimado” Chavez-Perez said in a voicemail in the wake of a double-stabbing on the city’s West Side, where police say seven assailants attacked two men with ”makeshift” spears, according to an arrest warrant. Chavez-Perez was arraigned Tuesday at state Superior Court in Stamford on an attempted murder charge,…

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