Unsealed indictments regarding MS-13 Gang July 19, 2017 MS-13 Gang Members Indicted in New York for Murder of Four Young Men in Park and Killing of Rival at Deli  Third Superseding Indictment Charges 17 MS-13 Gang Members with a Dozen Murders and Numerous Violent Crimes Committed on Long Island August 15, 2017 Members of Columbus, Ohio Clique of MS-13 Arrested and Charged Federal charges were filed against a total of 15 alleged MS-13 members.  Ten were charged by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to commit extortion, conspiracy to commit money laundering and use of a firearm during a crime of violence in an indictment returned on July 27.  Five others were charged in criminal complaints with reentering the U.S. after deportation.  Two of the 15 remain fugitives.   September 29, 2017 3,800 Gang Members Charged in Operation Spanning United States and Central America Senior law enforcement officials from the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras announced here today criminal charges against more than 3,800 MS-13 and 18th Street gang members in the United States and Central America in a coordinated law enforcement action known as Operation Regional Shield. The charges were announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the United States, Attorney General Douglas Meléndez of El Salvador, Attorney General Thelma Aldana of Guatemala, and Attorney General Oscar Chinchilla of Honduras, marking the six-month anniversary of the commitment to combat transnational organized crime initiated in March by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, together with the Attorneys General of the three Central American countries individuals charged announced today include over 70 individuals in the United States in California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio and Virginia. Law enforcement officers seized six firearms and charged 284 gang members in Guatemala; seized 14 businesses and 11 luxury vehicles and arrested 12 MS-13 money launderers in Honduras; and filed 3,477 criminal charges, resulting in more than 1,400 arrests in El Salvador Cases resulting from Operation Regional Shield ·         One indictment unsealed yesterday in the District of Massachusetts charges Edwin Manica Flores aka Sugar, Chugar and Shugar, an MS-13 leader incarcerated for murder in El Salvador, with a RICO conspiracy for alleged criminal activity he directed in the United States as the leader of MS-13’s “East Coast Program.” ·         Charges filed in Long Island on July 19 against 17 MS-13 members for 12 murders, including the April 11 quadruple murder of four men in Central Islip; racketeering; attempted murders; assaults; obstruction of justice; arson; conspiracy to distribute marijuana; and firearms April 26, 2018 Two Alleged MS-13 Members Charged with Violent Extortion Conspiracy  An indictment was unsealed Tuesday charging two alleged MS-13 members residing in Hyattsville, Maryland, with conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion.  Both defendants remain in custody following one of their detention hearings earlier today June 29, 2018 Twenty-Four Alleged MS-13 Members Facing Federal Indictment for Violent Racketeering, Murder, and Money Laundering Conspiracies  Gang Members Allegedly Committed Five Murders, Conspired to Murder Eight Persons, Engaged in Kidnappings, Extortion, and Drug   Maryland July 13, 2018 Eight MS-13 Members Indicted in Dallas on Charges Including Racketeering Conspiracy, Attempted Murder and Assault With a Dangerous Weapon August 31, 2018 Over 20 MS-13 Gang Members Arrested in California for Assault and Drug Trafficking  Murder, Kidnapping, and Assault Indictments against MS-13 Members also Unsealed January 10, 2011 Former Leader of MS-13 Gang in San Francisco Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Charges  Two Others Plead Guilty for Roles in MS-13 Gang February 9, 2011 41 Gang Members and Associates in Five Districts Charged with Crimes Including Racketeering, Murder, Drug Trafficking and Firearms Trafficking  Enforcement Actions Against More Than 110 Individuals Across the United States in February as Part of Doj Efforts to Combat Gangs and Gang-Related Violence August 30, 2011 Six MS-13 Gang Members in San Francisco Convicted of Racketeering Charges  All Three Defendants Charged With Murders Convicted and Face Mandatory Life in Prison November 3, 2011 Five Alleged MS-13 Leaders Indicted in Washington, D.C., on Racketeering Charges, Accused of Ordering and Carrying out Murders and Other Attacks  Two Defendants Allegedly Ran Operations From Prisons in El Salvador; 16 Defendants Now Facing Charges in Case https://www.justice.gov/news?keys=unsealed&items_per_page=25&f%5B0%5D=field_pr_date%3A2018&page=1 Savage gang’: Despite Trump’s relentless rhetoric, MS-13 killings are down.  Over the past two years, in tweets and speeches, on the campaign trail and in the Oval Office, President Trump has railed against the violent international street gang MS-13. The president called out the "savage gang" again Tuesday night, citing a suspected MS-13 murder earlier this week in his hometown, the New York borough Queens, during his argument for $5.7 billion in border wall funding. But even as he warned again and again about the dangers posed by MS-13 members and the need for a wall to keep them out, killings connected to the gang were plummeting in many of the areas where MS-13 has been most active In the Washington region, where a spate of grisly gang slayings drew the attention of the White House, MS-13 killings have fallen from at least 33 in 2016 and 2017 to seven last year, according to interviews with a dozen law enforcement agencies and prosecutors. And on Long Island, where 26 people were killed by the gang over the same two-year stretch, police say there was one MS-13 Getting a precise count for the entire country is difficult because no federal agency tracks MS-13 killings. But federal law enforcement officials say MS-13 violence fell last year as a result of intensified nationwide investigations. Despite the drop in killings, MS-13 still remains a menace, he and others said. And authorities pointed to a few places where the gang’s violence has remained steady — such as Houston and Prince George’s County, Md. — or has even increased, including Queens. They are laying low because of law enforcement actions, but that doesn’t mean they are going away,” Ghiz said. “Our feeling is that they are still very dangerous.” While Trump’s attacks on the gang have been relentless, current and former immigration officials, law enforcement agencies and gang experts attributed the decline in MS-13 killings to an aggressive response by local and federal authorities. Going public is one thing,” said Michael Chertoff, who served as Homeland Security secretary under President George W. Bush. “But if it becomes a political issue and people start to feel it’s being exaggerated, it damages the credibility of what you’re trying to do.” In reality, American law enforcement has fought the gang since the 1980s, with periodic upticks in MS-13 violence met by crackdowns and sweeping federal indictments. Founded in the late 1970s by Salvadoran refugees in Los Angeles, La Mara Salvatrucha grew more violent in the 1980s as it clashed with other gangs. In the mid-1990s, the Clinton administration tried to dismantle the gang by deporting thousands of its members to Central America. Instead, the strategy backfired as the gang reconstituted itself in the war-ravaged and weakly governed countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. HSI launched Operation Community Shield to go after MS-13 and other gangs for criminal or immigration violations. From October 2006 to September 2007, HSI arrests of MS-13 members tripled to 1,280, according to ICE statistics. The following fiscal year, HSI agents arrested 1,141 MS-13 members, including a record 689 on criminal charges. As MS-13 killings declined — in the Washington region and around the country — HSI arrests of the gang’s members also went down, bottoming out at 216 in 2014. Then, a surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America helped revitalize MS-13. An investigation by The Post in 2017 found that although the vast majority of the minors had stayed out of trouble, a small percentage were recruited by the gang. By 2015, MS-13 slayings were on the rise again in Long Island and the Washington suburbs. That summer, Donald Trump declared his candidacy for president in a speech that portrayed undocumented immigrants as “rapists,” drug smugglers and criminals. It wasn’t until after the election, however, that Trump seized upon MS-13 They’re killing and raping everybody out there,” he told Time magazine in December 2016, referring to a spike in MS-13 killings on Long Island. “They’re illegal. And they are finished.” Since taking office, Trump has mentioned the gang in 34 tweets, five weekly addresses and 38 political rallies Trump often insists that his administration is arresting and deporting MS-13 members in record numbers. But ICE data don’t support that claim. Between January 2016 and April 2017, there were 17 MS-13 slayings in Suffolk County, she said. Since then, there have been no known killings connected to the gang. Hart attributed the turnaround to aggressive local policing and community outreach. In 2017, her department arrested 171 MS-13 members or associates, she said. Last year, the tally fell to 88 as the gang went underground. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/savage-gang-despite-trumps-relentless-rhetoric-ms-13-murders-are-down/2019/02/06/9c6ace98-2662-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html?outputType=amp Nothing about how many are now sitting in Prison What about State incarcerations? How many more Sealed indictments have MS-13 on them?