Leader of MS-13 and 22 gang members are indicted for multiple murders trends now
Nearly two dozen members of the notorious street gang MS-13 were rounded up and charged by the FBI in relation to a long-running Long Island turf dispute on Wednesday.
Among those named in the indictment is Edenilson Velasquez Larin, aka Agresor, 33, of Thornton, Colorado, the purported national leader of the gang.
Despite the violence being centered around New York, alleged members from New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia were arrested this week. Larin is being held in immigration custody in Ohio.
The MS-13 gang has become known for violence across the US and been connected to high-profile crimes in Florida, Texas, New York and a host of other locations.
The group is charged with one particularly heinous act of violence when members killed a 17-year-old boy after stabbing and strangling him before posing for photos with his body.
Edenilson Velasquez Larin, aka Agresor, was part of the alleged Ms-13 gang members charged by the FBI
MS-13 gang member now looking a life in prison after pleading guilty the murders of three men, including an 18-year-old who was lured to a New York baseball field to smoke marijuana and beat with him a bat and stabbed
Oscar Solis Jr., who is charged with killing an Uber Eats driver during a delivery, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at Solis' home in Holiday, Florida. he is an accused member of the MS-13 gang
In the summer of 2021, the gang found itself at war with the Latin Kings gang over territory in Nassau County, New York. One of those charges, Christian Alas Leon, is accused of leading an attack on a rival gang member with machetes.
In the wake of a retaliatory stabbing for that attack, members of the MS-13 Long Island faction Fulton Locos Salvatruchas, held a conference call with Larin from a park in Hicksville, New York. At the meeting, the gangbangers devised a plot to kill a Latin Kings member, authorities allege.
The target of that attack survived despite being shot by Erick Galdamez Leon aka Truco, 23, prosecutors say in a press release.
Another man was targeted by the group after he uploaded a video to social media showing him in Westbury, Long Island, considered MS-13 territory. He also survived when he was shot in the face by group members Carlos Alvarado, 19, and Tylor Salmeron, 20, authorities said Wednesday.
The group was also at war with the Los Angeles based 18th Street Gang during 2019 and 2020 over turf in Long Island. This resulted in several shooting incidents, officials said. The accused leader of that battle was Jose Espinoza Sanchez.
Between 2018 and 2020, MS-13 members were responsible to four murders in the Queens section of New York City, prosecutors say.
In 2019, the group allegedly shot dead another man after dragging him off of a subway train in Jackson Heights, Queens, while yelling: 'We're MS-13! We're going to kill him!'
The slaying began as a fight between two groups on a Manhattan-bound 7 train. The victim was a member of the Latin King. He was
