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HARTFORD — At the age 11, Iran Nazario remembers Hartford gang members beating him as a way to test his fitness for the group. He thought nothing of it at the time, as Nazario said his life was already surrounded by violence. “As the years went by, I didn’t know the difference between loving someone…

MARYLAND (WBFF) — On Tuesday, a U.S. District judge sentenced Jose Rafael Ortega-Ayala, “Impaciente,” 30, to life in federal prison for racketeering and murder conspiracy charges. The charges also include committing murder in aid of racketeering, and for conspiracy to destroy and conceal evidence connected to his participation in La Mara Salvatrucha, a transnational criminal…

A group of four juveniles have been arrested after a street fight led to a man being stabbed in Ventura County. Thousand Oaks Patrol Deputies were called to the intersection of Avenida de las Plantas and Calle Tulipan on reports of a man being stabbed at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday evening, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office…

COLUMBUS –- A Columbus resident and member of a criminal street gang who — along with a co-defendant — shot multiple rounds at an FBI agent in Columbus last year was found guilty of assault on a federal officer along with additional charges for armed drug trafficking by a federal jury. Joshuia Johnathon Luke Brown,…

Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis today sentenced Jose Henry Hernandez-Garcia, a/k/a “Paciente,” age 29, of Annandale, Virginia, to life in federal prison for racketeering and murder in aid of racketeering conspiracies, for committing murder in aid of racketeering, and for conspiracy to destroy and conceal evidence connected to his participation in La…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Seventeen people pleaded not guilty Monday to various charges involving an attack on three Black men by members of the Hells Angels biker gang in San Diego this year, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said. The victims, ages 19, 20 and 21, were suddenly chased and attacked in San…

A Greenbelt, Maryland, man has been sentenced to life in prison Monday after being convicted of racketeering and taking part in the 2019 fatal stabbing of a Virginia teenager. According to court documents, 30-year-old Jose Rafael Ortega-Ayala, a member of the MS-13 gang’s Maryland-based Los Ghettos Criminales Salvatruchas clique, took part in the murder of…

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — Prince George’s County State Attorney Aisha Braveboy announced that 23-year-old Mario Clarios-Arias has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for attacking two teenage boys. Mario Clarios-Arias was convicted on Aug. 25 of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault. Clarios-Arias was involved…

Today, the FBI announces the results of a nationwide effort to combat violent crime during the summer of 2023. Law enforcement efforts were conducted between May 29 to September 4, 2023, and involved numerous FBI field offices and state and local partners. The FBI, alongside its state and local law enforcement partners, executed over 4,000…

An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Abel Mora, a member of the Trinitarios, a violent street gang, with being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition related to two separate shootings Mora allegedly committed in Queens and Brooklyn on August 13, 2023. Mora was arrested this morning and is scheduled…