Immigrant Gangster Charged in DC Double Murder

By Jessica Vaughan, December 1, 2008

The Salvadoran man charged in the double-murder of Michael and Virginia Spevak, a kindly and beloved retired Washington, DC couple is reported to be a member of Street Thug Criminals, a violent street gang already well-known to local police and ICE. Since 2005, ICE has arrested at least 10 other members and leaders of this gang, all but one citizens of El Salvador (see below). This case reaffirms the need for ICE to sustain its successful program aimed at dismantling immigrant street gangs, and for local law enforcement agencies to take advantage of immigration law tools in fighting gang crime.

Though described in one newspaper as a “refugeeâ€