A federal grand jury from Nashville, Tennessee, returned a 60-count indictment on July 28, charging nine La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members with violent crimes, including murder, and “a racketeering conspiracy spanning more than seven years.” The indictment is a second superseding one, and the names of the nine indicted MS-13 members, according to the Department of Justice, are Jason Sandoval, aged 35, aka “Bin Laden,” Carlos Ochoa-Martinez, 31, aka “El Serio,” Jorge Flores, 29, aka “Peluche,” Kevin Tidwell, 28, aka “Miklo,” all of Nashville; Luis Colindres, 24, aka “Listo,” Jose Pineda-Caceres, 22, aka “Demente,” Franklin Hernandez, 22, aka “Happy,”
US Border Patrol (BP) recently arrested gang members, sex offenders, and over a hundred individuals involved in human smuggling, also seeing sharp increases in the number of arrests and apprehensions necessary to protect the US border under the Biden administration. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) arrested four criminal migrants this week. On June 21, one of a group of 39 apprehended migrants was a 23-year-old El Salvadoran national and active member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang. The gang member “has a lengthy criminal record involving multiple arrests for aggravated assaults, criminal trespass, and