Gang News

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…

Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Julie R. Rubin today sentenced James Henry Roberts, a/k/a “Bub,” age 33, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 30 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise related to his activities in the Normandy, Franklin, and Loudon (“NFL”) gang, which…

Baltimore, Maryland – Jawaun Harris, age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal charge of conspiracy to participate in the affairs of a racketeering enterprise, in connection with his membership in the Triple C gang, including a carjacking, two attempted murders and a drug distribution conspiracy. The guilty plea was announced by…

Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III, sentenced Bernard Bay, age 53, of Baltimore, to 51 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a racketeering conspiracy at the Chesapeake Detention Facility (CDF), in Baltimore, Maryland. Judge Russell ordered that Bey’s federal sentence be served consecutive to the…

HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kenyatta Corbett, age 41, of Hagerstown and Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the June 25, 2016 murders of three individuals in Mercersburg, Franklin County, one of whom was cooperating with state and federal drug…

A priest from Philadelphia has managed to broker a truce between four rival gangs in one of the most dangerous areas in Haiti. For decades, Father Tom Hagan has lived and served in the Cité Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He says it “was recently designated by the United Nations as the most dangerous and…

SILVER SPRING, Md. — A 28-year-old D.C. man is set to serve 12 years in prison and five years of supervised probation after being sentenced on Thursday for his involvement in a gang-related shooting in Silver Spring. Aaron Jefferson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and…

A suspect has finally been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of Maryland father Christopher Wright months ago. Wright, 43, was beaten to death by a gang of men who turned up at his Maryland home to terrorize his 14-year-old son. Now Trevor Taylor, 26, of Glen Burnie, has been arrested and is being…