A frontrunner of MS-13 has been sentenced to life in jail after being convicted final yr of a number of expenses, together with homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide, the Division of Justice introduced Friday. MS-13, or La Mara Salvatrucha, is without doubt one of the largest gangs on the earth and has been referred to by former Lawyer Normal Invoice Barr as "a loss of life cult."
Miguel Angel Corea Diaz, 41, also called Reaper, was accused alongside together with his co-defendant Junior Noe Alvarado-Requeno of controlling and working Sailors Locos Salvatruchos Westside, one of many gang's "cliques," between 2015 and 2018. In keeping with the Justice Division, the Maryland-based clique was concerned in "a number of great legal exercise together with homicide, extortion, drug trafficking, cash laundering, and witness tampering."
In the course of the 2021 trial, prosecutors offered proof displaying that the group extorted native companies in Maryland by charging them "lease" for working within the gang's so-called "territory." Proof additionally confirmed that the clique was liable for committing violent acts towards each rival gangs and its personal members for "breaking gang guidelines" and for trafficking unlawful medicine like heroin and cocaine. The group would additionally share proceeds from the gang's unlawful actions to MS-13 management in El Salvador in methods designed to "keep away from legislation enforcement scrutiny," the Justice Division stated Friday.
Prosecutors additionally argued that in 2017, Corea-Diaz and Alvarado-Requeno helped kidnap and homicide a highschool pupil due to a "dispute" the coed had with a MS-13 member over marijuana. A bunch of MS-13 members, who have been organized by Corea-Diaz and Alvarado-Requeno, kidnapped the coed on his entrance garden, lower his hand off and killed him. Corea-Diaz and Alvarado-Requeno then "helped to cover and defend the killers from legislation enforcement," in accordance with the Justice Division.
"The brutality of Corea Diaz is nearly unfathomable," U.S. legal professional for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron stated Friday in a press release. "We'll proceed to work with our legislation enforcement companions to take away these violent gang members to maintain our communities secure from the violence perpetrated by MS-13."
Corea Diaz and Alvarado-Requeno have been convicted by a federal jury on November 23, 2021 following a four-week trial for homicide in assist of racketeering, conspiracy to commit homicide in assist of racketeering, and a number of drug offenses, in accordance with the DOJ.
"Any time we are able to get a infamous gang member off. the streets, it's a victory for each legislation enforcement and law-abiding residents," particular agent answerable for Homeland Safety Investigations in Baltimore James R. Mancuso stated Friday in a press release. "On this case, the legal is especially violent, and now he'll face the results of his crimes."
Alvarado-Requeno, who additionally faces a compulsory life sentence, is scheduled to be sentenced April 25.