Gang News

Homicide defendant Damien Woods’ retrial for the murder of 34-year-old Tracy Whiting was scheduled for this September after a hung jury resulted in a mistrial last year. The 36-year-old Baltimore man was charged with first-degree murder and two weapons charges in connection to Whiting’s death on Nov. 4, 2018. Four years later, Woods went to…

Nearly three months after he was indicted for his alleged involvement in a criminal organization, defendant Ernest Hudson was denied bail on June 27 in connection to an attempted murder last spring. The 37-year-old defendant is charged with participating in a criminal organization in addition to homicide, attempted murder, drug, and weapons charges stemming back…

On July 17, three co-defendants had their trial further postponed as a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge set a special zoom meeting for all attorneys involved to figure out a trial date that works for everyone. Gregory Beadles, Karon Tyree Johnson, and Pierre Briggs are three members of the ‘39 Babies’ gang that are on…

A defendant stood before a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge on July 24 to schedule his trial in connection to the murder of Marquis Carter in 2022. Judge Melissa M. Phinn, Dayvonta Mackey and his attorney, Amanda Savage, who stood in for Benjamin Charlton, scheduled a motions hearing for Oct. 30. Judge Phinn also reiterated…

As a leader in the murderous MS-13 gang, Melvi Amador-Rios—nicknamed “Pinky”—ordered a hit on a 16-year-old boy in a New York City park that was so brutal it left the teenage nearly decapitated, federal prosecutors say. Amador-Rios ordered the murders of at least four people during his reign as kingpin of the Centrales Locos Salvatruchas—a…

As part of this multiagency operation, federal, state, and local law enforcement officers from 16 different law enforcement agencies, served arrest warrants and search warrants at 18 locations in Central Indiana and in Arizona on the morning of June 22nd. 16 individuals were arrested and are in federal custody. Three remain as fugitives. According to…

Three people have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in Santa Maria nine months ago. Early Friday morning, detectives and SWAT team members served search and arrest warrants in the 300 block of West Shiela Lane, according to Lt. Daniel Rios from the Santa Maria Police Department Detective Bureau. The operation was linked…

he US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Texas identified seven MS-13 gang members who are accused of committing violent crimes during the deadly Jan 31 attack in a Beaumont penitentiary that caused a nationwide prison lockdown. Two prison inmates died after the MS-13 gang members attacked multiple Sureños members and a Mexican Mafia…

he trial against three members of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, on extortion, murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, robbery, and firearms-related charges, will begin next Monday in Brooklyn federal court in New York. The MS-13 gang members who will be tried face murder charges are Melvi Amador-Ríos, Josue…

Baltimore, Maryland – Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced El Salvadoran national Jose Lopez Rivera, age 27, of Elmont, New York, formerly residing in Maryland, to 26 years in federal prison for a racketeering conspiracy involving a violent murder connected to his participation in La Mara Salvatrucha, a transnational criminal enterprise also known…