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https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/baltimore-bgf-gang-member-sentenced-38-years-federal-prison-racketeering-conspiracy Baltimore, Maryland – On September 17, 2024, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced David Warren, a/k/a “Meshawn,” age 32, of Baltimore to 467 months in federal prison, followed by 5years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as the Black Guerilla Family (“BGF”) gang. The sentence was…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/09/09/fox45-ms-13-gang-member-attends-maryland-high-school-as-murder-suspect-school-not-told/ A grieving mother has a powerful warning for Maryland parents after her daughter was murdered and the suspected killer was allowed to attend a public school. “When I start from the very beginning and get to the very end, they’re like, ‘wow, that is a really crazy story,’” The victim’s mother Tammy Nobles told…

https://wtop.com/dc/2024/09/dc-grand-jury-returns-guilty-verdicts-for-two-gang-members-in-2018-murder-of-10-year-old-girl/ Two gang members involved in the 2018 death of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson were found guilty on murder charges in a D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday. makiyah wilsonAssistant D.C. Police Chief Chanel Dickerson said the suspects fired “indiscriminately,” killing 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson and wounding four adults. (Courtesy NBC Washington)A jury found Mark Price, 30, and…

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/09/3-ms-13-gang-members-convicted-in-2022-killing-over-graffiti-in-silver-spring/ Three Maryland men who police say are members of the MS-13 gang have been convicted on charges related to a 2022 retribution shooting in Silver Spring that left a teenager dead. Junior Francisco Del-Cid, 20, of Takoma Park, Elmer Lopez-Cortez, 25, of Silver Spring, and Elvin Guzman-Machado, 20, of Silver Spring, were found guilty…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/21/tension-between-biker-group-oliver-residents-boils-over-after-sunday-shooting-that-killed-1-injured-7/ Baltimore Police detectives were investigating potential arson Thursday at the scene of Sunday’s mass shooting in Oliver after a biker hangout there caught fire the night before. The building at 1301 N. Spring St., which regularly hosted motorcycle club gatherings including a Sunday evening vigil that preceded the violence, caught fire around 10 p.m.…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/22/ms-13-gang-member-pleads-guilty-to-murder-of-autistic-woman-in-aberdeen/ A 19-year-old who officials say illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 pleaded guilty Wednesday in Harford County Circuit Court to first-degree murder in the strangulation death of Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old Aberdeen woman with high functioning autism. Walter Javier Martinez was 17 when he was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree murder, first-…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/21/tension-between-biker-group-oliver-residents-boils-over-after-sunday-shooting-that-killed-1-injured-7/ Residents of Oliver believed they had come to an understanding with a group of bikers who regularly met near a small park at the center of the East Baltimore neighborhood. But those tensions were front and center again this week as police investigate motorcycle club members’ connection to a Sunday shooting near their hangout…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/18/baltimore-shootings-sunday-eastern-district-oliver/ Investigators are “looking to see” whether a biker group was involved in a Sunday evening mass shooting in East Baltimore where eight people were shot, one fatally, a Baltimore Police spokesperson said. Residents of Oliver, a neighborhood they described as usually being quiet and peaceful, expressed shock Monday morning as investigators combed through evidence…

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-baltimore-arrests-colombian-gang-leader-wanted-homicide-arms-trafficking BALTIMORE — Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore apprehended a unlawfully present Colombian fugitive and leader of a violent criminal organization who is wanted by authorities in his home country for homicide, arms trafficking and aggravated theft charges. Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested the 29-year-old Colombian fugitive July 31 at his…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/14/18th-street-gang-member-sentence-baltimore-county/ A Baltimore County gang member will spend life in prison for a 2021 murder. A jury convicted Hector Marroquin-Galdamez, 41, of first-degree murder in May over the killing of 30-year-old Orlando Carranza-Portillo. Marroquin-Galdamez was arrested and indicted in August 2021, according to court records. In a Baltimore bar in May 2021, Carranza-Portillo “created the…