DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A GANG KNOWN AS MS-13 has new charges against its members as a 49-count superseding indictment was unsealed on Monday, Nov. 4, in federal court in Brooklyn. The charges relate to murders allegedly ordered and committed by the group’s national leaders, members and associates of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13.
Multiple MS-13 members and associates have been charged to date in the case for numerous crimes including the murders of Andy Peralta in 2018, Victor Alvarenga in 2018, Abel Mosso in 2019 and Eric Monge in 2020. The superseding indictment filed today includes new charges against the following MS-13 members for murders in 2020 and 2022.
Court filings allege that MS-13 is an extraordinarily violent street gang operating through “cliques” or chapters in Queens, Long Island and communities across the United States, and in the Central American countries of El Salvador, Honduras and other parts of the Americas and Europe. The gang makes its money primarily through drug trafficking and extortion, and is known for its gruesome murders of perceived gang rivals and gang members and associates who have violated the gang’s rules.
MS-13 has been responsible for dozens of murders in the Eastern District of New York alone.
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