MS-13

Border Patrol agents in California arrested a convicted felon who is a member of the notorious MS-13 gang for illegally reentering the U.S. after being previously deported, authorities said Monday.

The Justice Department has authorized federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against an MS-13 gang leader charged in connection to seven slayings — including the gruesome baseball bat bludgeoning of two teenage girls, according to court papers.

Four murder victims in a Virginia county were the random targets of a violent clique of the notorious MS-13 street gang, authorities said Tuesday.

Bumbling state prison officials put a reputed MS-13 gang member back on the streets — even though the feds ordered him held on a murder charge that carries the death penalty, The Post has learned.

Five alleged members of the MS-13 street gang in Maryland have been charged in the May murder of a 16-year-old New York girl, according to a report.

Eleven alleged members of the MS-13 street gang have been charged with sex trafficking after federal prosecutors say a 13-year-old runaway was repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat and forced into prostitution in northern Virginia.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., along with Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced a bill Tuesday to make it easier to qualify for advanced sentencing due to gang activity and create a federal database of gang activity within the Department of Justice (DOJ). 

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its very first terrorist charge against a member of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, better known as MS-13. After unsealing the indictment in Virginia against Melgar Diaz, Attorney General William Barr depicted him as the individual who “would green light assassinations” at the gang’s behest in the United States.

Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that the leader of MS-13 has been charged with terrorism amid a nationwide crackdown on the group.

Five members of the violent MS-13 street gang--four of them in the country illegally--have been accused of gunning down a Maryland man who was ambushed as he left his home to go to work.