SEVEN NORTH CAROLINA MS-13 GANG MEMBERS SENTENCED TO PRISON ON RACKETEERING, MURDER, DRUG AND FIREARMS CHARGES

Published 03/05/2011 - 8:00 a.m. CST

WASHINGTON – Seven MS-13 members and leaders of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, have been sentenced to prison this week, after being convicted or pleading guilty to criminal charges that include racketeering, murder, attempted murder, assault, cocaine trafficking and numerous related federal firearms offenses. The sentences were announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Anne M. Tompkins for the Western District of North Carolina.


To date, 25 of the 26 defendants originally charged in the June 2008 indictment have been sentenced for their roles in the racketeering activities of MS-13, a national and international criminal enterprise.


“These sentences reflect the severity of the defendants’ crimes, which included murder, attempted murder and racketeering,â€