A reputed “worldwide chief” of the migrant gang MS-13 ordered murders and oversaw gun and drug trafficking schemes within the US out of a jail cell in El Salvador, federal prosecutors stated.
Moises Humberto Rivera-Luna, 55, is going through racketeering expenses after getting extradited to the US from Guatemala and getting in entrance of a decide in Washington, DC this week — the end result of an exhaustive 12-year investigation by federal immigration and regulation enforcement authorities.
“The last decade-long pursuit of this alleged violent gang member illustrates our workplace’s resolve to stay targeted and convey to justice those that violate the regulation regardless of the place they’re, regardless of how lengthy it takes,” Edward Martin, US Lawyer for Washington, DC, stated in a press release.
Rivera-Luna, also called Viejo Santos, or Previous Saint, was considered one of seven reputed MS-13 bosses indicted in 2013 for allegedly ordering murders, kidnappings and assaults from the South American jail, and ordering hits on turncoat gang members, in response to a superseding federal indictment within the case.
The gang chief is accused of giving the inexperienced gentle for the murders of Felipe Enriquez, 25, whose physique was present in Maryland in 2010, and 27-year-old Louis Alberto Membreno-Zelaya, who was brutally stabbed to loss of life in 2008 and dumped within the nation’s capital, the feds stated.
Rivera-Luna and MS-13 cohort Marvin Geovanny Monterrosa-Larios, who was additionally locked up in El Salvador, used cellphones to run gang “cliques” within the DC space, the indictment stated.
As soon as launched from jail, Rivera-Luna fled to Guatemala, the place he was taken into custody pending extradition proceedings — which led to his courtroom look this week.
He’s now being held with out bail whereas awaiting trial.
MS-13 has been behind widespread violence and trafficking within the US for years, together with on Lengthy Island and within the New York metropolitan space.
Earlier this month the state division designated the gang, together with the Venezuelan avenue gang Tren de Aragua, as a international terrorists organizations and declared battle on each.
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