https://freerepublic.com/tag/mendota/ en-us Thu, 2 Jul 2026 03:30:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4386319/posts Three MS-13 gang members have been convicted of nine murders, kidnapping and racketeering in a Nevada courtroom. Jose Luis Reynaldo Reyes-Castillo of El Salvador, David Arturo Perez-Manchame of Honduras, and Joel Vargas-Escobar of El Salvador were all found guilty by a federal jury on Monday. The DOJ says all three had also been charged with gun offenses, and that all three were in the country illegally. The DOJ says all three men were part of the Parkview clique of MS-13, operating in Las Vegas. Evidence presented at trial showed that Vargas-Escobar was the leader of the clique until his arrest... KVVU https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4386319/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2026 03:30:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3698046/posts Despite its international reputation for hacking up victims with machetes – sometimes brazenly leaving the bloodied, mangled corpses in the open – the street gang MS-13 slipped into Mendota relatively unnoticed. Fresno Bee https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3698046/posts#comment Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:25:15 GMT