“Over the past year, tagging and other evidence of MS-13’s presence has been observed at multiple locations throughout the Valley,” the LAPD said. “Officials believe the gang is attempting to establish a foothold by directly challenging rival gangs.”
MS-13 gang members in Los Angeles hacked to death seven people in the last two years, including a rival gang member who was dismembered and had his heart cut out by six MS-13 soldiers in the Angeles National Forest for defacing the gang’s graffiti, federal authorities alleged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
The sweeping indictment marks the latest battle between California law enforcement and the notorious Central American gang. The MS-13 gang, which has ties to El Salvador, was formed in Los Angeles decades ago and was responsible for numerous murders and other criminal enterprises. Sixteen of the 22 people indicted are charged in connection with those six slayings, which authorities called so “heinous, cruel or depraved” that the defendants are eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors have not said whether they intend to seek the death penalty.
“We have now taken off the streets nearly two dozen people associated with the most violent arm of MS-13 in Los Angeles, where the gang is believed to have killed 24 people over the past two years,” said Nick Hanna, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.Some of the suspects were high school students at the time of the slayings, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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