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“3 MS-13 Leaders Convicted on Racketeering Charges”
April 28, 2007 - 8:48am
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - A federal jury has convicted three members of the street gang MS-13 on racketeering charges stemming from Washington area gang murders, assaults, robberies and other offenses.
The panel in Greenbelt found Jose Hipolito Cruz Diaz,28, and Omar Vasquez, 28, along with Henry Zelaya, 20, guilty of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise. The three are among 26 alleged members of the Latino gang to be prosecuted under the federal RICO statute, which is normally used for organized crime.
Prosecutors say Zelaya and Diaz both headed smaller units of MS-13 in Washington and Maryland, called cliques. Vasquez was allegedly sent from El Salvador to run all the cliques in the Washington area.”