The joint trial is the latest in a practice that has been criticized by human rights groups as an infringement of the rights of the accused to defend themselves.

SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Prosecutors in El Salvador opened a massive, joint trial of nearly 500 alleged members of the MS-13 gang on charges that include homicide, extortion and arms trafficking. Nigerian ...

Another sentence has been handed down to a Baltimore based member of the Central American gang known as MS-13.

Nearly 490 alleged members of the powerful Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including several alleged leaders, went on trial collectively in El Salvador on Monday, accused of thousands ...

ICE agents nabbed a murderous illegal migrant and MS-13 gangbanger during a crafty traffic-stop sting in upstate New York last week, authorities said. Federal immigration agents got a tip on the ...

A federal sentencing on Tuesday of a Frederick man to seven years in prison was the first connected to an MS-13 gang killing ...

An accused killer and member of the notorious Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while hiding out in a major suburb in Northern Virginia ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Eight El Salvadoran nationals illegally present in the United States and members of the violent transnational criminal organization Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, ...

A group of Salvadoran men who last year admitted to being members of MS-13 and participating in a violent conspiracy that resulted in murders in multiple states have been sentenced to decades in ...

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