California
FBI Most Wanted Narco-terrorist who rose from LA streets to run MS-13 apprehended quietly in San Diego area
March 21, 2024
Nelson “Mula” Flores, who authorities say is one of MS-13’s most influential members outside El Salvador, is taken into U.S. custody.
Aug. 13, 2020
Federal authorities in Los Angeles charged 23 suspected members and associates of the MS-13 gang, alleging that one of the group’s leaders in California is a powerful Mexican Mafia figure who controls local drug sales.
Nov. 14, 2023
World & Nation
Treasury Dept.: MS-13 gang is international criminal organization
Oct. 11, 2012
A grand jury indictment charges more than a dozen alleged MS-13 gang members with gruesome killings committed in the Angeles National Forest.
July 16, 2019
Politics
Led by President Trump, top administration officials on Tuesday blamed what they called lax immigration enforcement for the rise of MS-13, the bloody crime cartel spawned in the streets and jails of Los Angeles, and promised a stronger federal response.
April 18, 2017
May 18, 2017
Federal prosecutors expanded a case against the MS-13 gang, securing an indictment that charges nine new defendants and implicates the gang in four murders.
Aug. 24, 2021
Opinion
MS-13 has deep roots in both El Salvador and Los Angeles. The two places have a troubling link that can’t be severed by walls or deportations.
July 18, 2019
A faction within MS-13 used gruesome tactics to kill seven people in the L.A. area since 2017, prosecutors said.