MS-13 MEMBER SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS FOR RACKETEERING CONSPIRACY

Baltimore.FBI.gov ^ | January 12, 2009 | n/a

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://baltimore.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/ba011209.htm

MS-13 MEMBER SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS FOR RACKETEERING CONSPIRACY

Participated in the Murders of Rival Gang Members

Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Eris Marchante-Rivas, also known as Strayboy, age 24, of Hyattsville, Maryland, today to 30 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to conduct and participate in racketeering enterprise activities of MS-13, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Department of Justice Criminal Division.

“We are working with local, state, federal and international partners to combat MS-13,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. “Since 2005, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office has convicted 42 MS-13 gang members, including 23 charged as part of a racketeering conspiracy. Anyone who joins a violent gang should be on notice that the future may hold a lengthy term in federal prison.”

“We are continuing our commitment to impact violent crime,” says ATF Special Agent in Charge Theresa R. Stoop, “and we're not going to stop until we get the job done.”

According to the statement of facts provided to the court as part of his plea agreement, La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, is a gang composed primarily of immigrants or descendants of immigrants from El Salvador, with members operating throughout Prince George’s County and Montgomery County, Maryland, and elsewhere. MS-13 is a national and international criminal organization with approximately 10,000 members. Members of MS-13 frequently engage in criminal activity, including murders, assaults, robberies, kidnappings, and threatening and intimidating of witnesses.

MS-13 is organized in “cliques,” including, the Sailors Locos Salvatruchos Westside (“SLSW” or “Sailors”), the Teclas Locos Salvatruchos (“TLS”), and the Langley Park Salvatruchos (“LPS”). In 2003, Marchante-Rivas was “jumped-in” to the gang and by 2005 he held the leadership position of “First Word” within the TLS clique in Maryland.

Marchante-Rivas admitted that he and his co-conspirators had knowledge of, agreed to, and participated in acts of violence on behalf of MS-13, including acts that resulted in murder, attempted murder, and robbery. For example, Marchante-Rivas and other MS-13 members attended meetings at which the rules of the gang were discussed, including rules about joining in beatings and killings of rival gang members.

On October 9, 2005, Marchante-Rivas admitted he attended a meeting of the TLS clique in Prince George’s County. During that meeting, one of the international leaders of the TLS clique of MS-13 spoke to the gang members by cellular telephone from a jail in El Salvador. After the meeting, Marchante-Rivas admitted he and fellow gang members drove to meet a number of gang members from other MS-13 cliques. At the meeting, the gang members discussed their plans to shoot rival gang members that day. Marchante-Rivas and other gang members went to the 5600 block of Quintana Street in Riverdale, Maryland with the intent of killing rival gang members. Once they arrived, the gang members left their vehicles and approached Jose Cerda, Edward Trujillo and another person, who were standing in front of a house on Quintana Street. Cerda and Trujillo were shot and killed by MS-13 gang members and the third individual was wounded by a gunshot.

United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein and Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich praised the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Prince George’s County Police Department; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the Montgomery County Police Department; the Howard County Police Department; the Maryland National Capital Park Police; the Maryland State Police; and Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Glenn F. Ivey and Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy and their offices, for their work in this investigation and prosecution. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant U.S. Attorneys Chan Park and Robert K. Hur, and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney David Jaffe, a Trial Attorney from the Criminal Division’s Gang Unit, who are prosecuting the case.

[Cindy]

SNIPPET from post no. 1:

"MS-13 is a national and international criminal organization with approximately 10,000 members. Members of MS-13 frequently engage in criminal activity, including murders, assaults, robberies, kidnappings, and threatening and intimidating of witnesses."

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

How about executing the bastard instead of housing and feeding him? That would send a real message, not letting the killers just “do the time”.

Maryland - I forgot. Murder is a way of life there and even the feds don’t have the guts to go for the death penalty.

Hey guys. Turn him over to the State and let them try him for murder. Maybe they can fry his ass if they get the balls needed to prosecute him properly.

[VietVet]

30 years of living on the taxpayers’ dime is not appropriate. These gangs should be declared terrorist organizations, and their members treated as the IDF is treating Hamas.

VietVet

[Cindy]

For what it’s worth, in my opinion gangbangers and jihadis are cut of the same cloth.

[Cindy]

ping

[eyedigress]

I would favor an MS-13 prison with no outside contact and everyone in an open yard situation. That may be a little more scary than humane death.

[river rat]

I suspect that part of the “plan” - is to bankrupt America by being “Uncle Sam” to illegal immigrants, criminals, broodmares dropping bastards for a living, drug addicts, drunks, homosexuals with AIDS and Blacks who make a living of collecting welfare and demanding “reparations”....

Their “plan” is working -— we’re facing national bankruptcy, devaluation of the dollar and a Kenyan Marxist in the White House..

What’s to worry about?

[EDINVA]

This is the US federal court in Maryland. It’s located in Prince Georges County, adjacent to the District. Its crime rate is only slightly behind Baltimore but that really doesn’t represent all of Maryland. The vast majority of crime in the state is in those 2 jurisdictions.

I hope J Chasanow and the US Atty have been provided good protection. MS-13 is a vicious group of thugs.

[VeniVidiVici]

So nice to read all of these place names that aren’t too far from where I grew up.

And that I’m so happy I live nowhere near there anymore.

[eyedigress]

They are getting control of the underworld in all the major cities. I would house them together and let them off their “own”.

[EDINVA]

“I’m so happy I live nowhere near there anymore.”

You should be!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Great news. Now get the rest of them!

MS-13 is a national and international criminal organization with approximately 10,000 members. Members of MS-13 frequently engage in criminal activity, including murders, assaults, robberies, kidnappings, and threatening and intimidating of witnesses.

.. hey! that reminds me. How about a band of terrorists of old.

Officer Down Memorial Page Who murdered the policemen? Mr. and Mrs. Ayers?

How about some action to solve this one, FBI? DoJ?

[Cindy]

I remember that.

Thanks for your post William of Carmichael.

[dianed]

Look for FTW tattooed somewhere on the gangmembers bodies. It stands for “F#$% The World”. Their calling card is a machete and they claim to have brought middle easterners across the Mexican border with nuke suitcases.

Thank you El Salvador for this lovely addition to our country.....

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=397392

[dianed]

Here’s some fun pics for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.zimbio.com/Mara+Salvatrucha/articles/2/Mara+Salvatrucha+MS+13

[SlowBoat407]

Thanks. That’s a good start.

[Ev Reeman]

Gangs all over America need to be stopped and stopped now. All law enforcement agencies need to be mobilized and need to rein in these thugs of terror that terrorize many neighborhoods across the country. This is not only a local problem , it is a national one. Gangs deal in drugs and have weapons which should be temporarily confiscated and tested to see if they match up with a crime that has been committed especially involving murders. If the weapons show that the gun has been used to commit a crime and can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the gun and its gang member owner should be jailed and prosecuted. All gang member affiliations should be investigated. If illegal aliens are members of such gangs, they should be deported. But if they have committed a crime such as murder or robbery, they hsould not be deported but prosecuted to the fullest extant of the law possible. The only way to deal with gangs is to get tough with them. Really tough. So many innocent lives are lost. Innocent bystanders have been caught in gang crossfire and killed. This insanity must end.

[Ev Reeman]

One of the biggest problems is liberal judges. They are way to soft on many criminals including child molesters. So whenever possible, vote judges and any other politician that is not tough on crime and criminals out of office. That is where it must start.

[HiJinx]

I like that idea - 5 acres in the Ironwood National Monument outside of Tucson. GP Mediums for shelter. Surrounded by two 10’ chain-mail fences topped with razor wire...and electified...like the ones in Jurassic Park.

Air drop food and water once a week.

On-site blast furnace for ‘waste’ disposal.

Any other (printable) ideas?