Washington, DC…Eight illegal aliens and members of the violent transnational criminal organization Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, have been sentenced for participating in a racketeering conspiracy that included witness tampering and multiple murders of individuals as young as 14.
“These defendants, acting on behalf of a transnational criminal gang, carried out brutal murders, killing victims with machetes, baseball bats, and their bare hands, and then glorifying their violent acts by sending photos of their carnage to MS-13 leaders in El Salvador,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “The Department commends the brave law enforcement officers and those who came forward to help law enforcement to resolve these cases. The lengthy sentences imposed send an unmistakable message that MS-13 and its accompanying violence are not welcome in the United States. The Criminal Division will relentlessly pursue MS-13 and hold those accountable who bring MS-13 violence to American communities.”
“Today’s sentences send a clear message – those who carry out violence for transnational criminal organizations will be held accountable, no matter where the orders come from,” said Acting U.S. Attorney John G.E. Marck for the Southern District of Texas. “These defendants used brutality to advance within their criminal enterprise, and now they face the consequences. The Southern District of Texas will diligently continue working to dismantle violent criminal gangs that threaten our community.”
“This case centers on when MS-13 violence was at its peak in Houston. These gang members are among the most ruthless and violent criminals we’ve seen. They made our communities their killing fields,” said Special Agent in Charge Jason Hudson of the FBI Houston Field Office. “Today’s hefty sentences should send a message to other violent terrorist organizations that the rule of law and justice will eventually catch up to you. This investigation, and today’s sentences, would not have been possible if it weren’t for our partnerships with the Houston Police Department, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, and our law enforcement partners in El Salvador.”
“All eight of these MS-13 gang members illegally entered the country – including Aguilar Ochoa who illegally entered the U.S. four times – and went on to reign terror on our local communities,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Erin Burke of Immigration and Customs Enforcement – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston. “Working in conjunction with our partners, we were able to bring an end to the lawlessness that they’ve spread and hold them accountable for their depraved actions.”
Today, Edgardo Martinez-Rodriguez also known as Largo, 35, was sentenced to 50 years in prison and Wilman Rivas-Guido also known as Inquieto, 30, was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Six other MS-13 members have been sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment in connection with this case: Miguel Angel Aguilar-Ochoa also known as Darki, 40, Wilson Jose Ventura-Mejia also known as Discreto, 30, and Walter Chicas-Garcia, 28, each received 50-year sentences. Marlon Miranda Moran, 26, was ordered to serve 35 years in prison, while Luis Ernesto Carbajal-Peraza, 34, and Carlos Garcia-Gongora, 28, were ordered to serve 45 years in prison. All have been and will remain in custody.
All are El Salvadoran nationals illegally present in the United States. They previously pleaded guilty, admitting to being members of MS-13 and participating in a criminal enterprise responsible for murders, extortion, drug trafficking, robbery and obstruction of justice in and around the Houston area from 2017 through 2018. In February 2025, the U.S. State Department designated MS-13 as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. MS-13 engages in violent criminal activity across the United States, including in Texas, Virginia, Maryland, New York and California, and throughout the countries where it operates, such as El Salvador and Honduras. MS-13 routinely uses intimidation and violence, including murder and assault with deadly weapons like machetes, baseball bats, firearms, and ligature strangulation, all to maintain power, reputation and territory.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Martinez-Rodriguez and Rivas-Guido, who were sentenced today after admitting to involvement in murder ordered and approved by high-ranking MS-13 leaders in El Salvador, who at times monitored executions by phone. Members carried out the murders to increase or maintain rank within the gang and targeted individuals believed to be rival gang members, law enforcement cooperators or people working against MS-13’s interests. After the murders, members sent photos of the victims’ bodies to leadership in El Salvador as proof of the executions and in an effort to rise in rank, sometimes further mutilating or dismembering the bodies before sending the photos. Martinez-Rodriguez was a high-ranking leader in the conspiracy and initiated numerous murders ordered and approved by MS-13 leaders in El Salvador.
FBI and HSI conducted the investigation with assistance from police departments in Houston and Galveston, Texas, and Prince George’s County in Maryland; Sheriff’s offices in Harris and Liberty Counties in Texas; Texas Department of Public Safety; University of North Texas Center for Human Identification; U.S. Marshals Service and Texas Office of the Attorney General.
Trial Attorneys César S. Rivera-Giraud and Ben Tonkin of the Criminal Division’s Violent Crime and Racketeering Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Keri Fuller and former Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Britni Verdeja for the Southern District of Texas prosecuted this case.
This case is part of the Homeland Security Task Force nationwide initiative, which is a White House directed, interagency effort to integrate federal, state, and local partners in targeting transnational criminal organizations, and led by the prosecutorial Joint Task Force Vulcan.
This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.
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Buddies of the democrat party.
Buddies? They are more than buddies, they are the democrat party. They’re criminals, they supply the left with illegal drugs, sex trafficking the 100’s of thousands of immigrant children Biden Administration let in and then conveniently lost. The democraps let in over 10 million illegals, not vetting anyone, murderers, rapist, pedophiles, cartels, gangs, terrorist, not caring about American citizens, but only about their votes or upping the populations of blus states to get another electoral vote credited to the left.
Thats the democrats today, just like how they hope Iran will somehow kill American military personnel or take out one of our ships, hoping that voters will sour on the republicans and hope for our military to fail so maybe they can win more votes. That is truly disgusting, but that’s the democrat party today.
I just received a book on the best seller’s list… for $.01 cent! Thats right ONE FRIGGIN CENT!!!
It’s the truth, and here’s why. Gavin bought 2 thirds of his books to make the best sellers list.
“How Newsom Boosted His Book Sales With $1.5 Million From His PAC
Gov. Gavin Newsom offered supporters who gave any amount a copy of his book. Roughly 67,000 donors received the memoir, accounting for about two-thirds of its total print sales.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/politics/newsom-book-donors.html
That’s how good this book is and it will be a collectors item in a few years, worth MILLIONS!!!
JUST LOOK WHAT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS BEEN CAUGHT AT NOW!!!!
THE LEFT IS THE PARTY OF HATE AND DISGUST.
HEADLINE NEWS THE LEGACY MEDIA HAS PROTECTED AND TRIED TO HIDE!!
“US News
8 hate group leaders — including KKK Imperial Wizard and neo-Nazi — got millions from SPLC as part of ‘informant’ scheme, DOJ says”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/us-news/southern-poverty-law-center-accused-of-secretly-paying-ex-kkk-imperial-wizard-as-informant/
Where’s Adam Fairy now?
He’s pounding his cum stained mattress.
^^^LOOK AT ALL OF THE TRUMP/MAGA FOOLS!!!
Aren’t you the same guys that praised Tucker, Alex, Megyn, MTG, for their inciteful brilliant reasoned backing of your boy Trump?
Where are they now? Abandoning ship like rats off the Titanic, that’s where.
Face the facts losers above. Bashing the Dems, while at the same time metaphorically getting down on your knees in front of your false idol DJT, have gotten you, us, this entire country, into a mess that will now take decades to repair.
Trump has ruined, almost entirely, the economy of this country. Where is the promised price cutting he ran on? The lowering of fuel prices? The booming economy?
Where is the benefit of tariffs?
You Trumpsters fell for his BS hook, line and sinker. So don’t take the route of Tucker, etal., and jump off the bandwagon. You voted for that conman, you wore your’e stupid hats, fly your Trump flags, spew his vile speech verbatim.
I for one will feel no pity, no compassion for the MASSIVE mistake(s) you made. And some of you, many here in cow county, still back him like brain dead morons. Keep up the good work zombies.
And all you can do is blame Biden. That’s all you got. Even though that argument holds absolutely NO Water. Joes gone, in more ways than one, but just yesterday you could see members of Trumps Cabinet, some call it his Liquor Cabinet, bashing Joe and blaming all of this countries current woes on him. How much longer do you think you can run on that BS? Well, around here for a lot longer, as Calaveras County MAGA Republicans have repeatedly shown they are easy to manipulate for your political advantage. aka gullible zombie braindead sheep.
So, as Trump fires another cabinet member. The third female cabinet member I might add, as Trump touts the “winning” of his war, as Trump tries desperately tries to deflect from the Epstein/Trump Files, as Trump privately fumes and yells at everything and everyone around him, as he desperately seeks a life line, any line, that will save HIM, the most important person he knows, the most brilliant person he knows, from the fate of going down in history as the ULTIMATE LOSER, just remember you voted for it, you asked for it/him, and now you have to take responsibility for just flat out fucking up.
You know, just like Tucker Carlson………………………………..
Blah Blah Blah go back to sucking Wyatt dick.
I’ve came a long way, I own a trailer.
I bet you’re sponging off the backs of Calif. tax payers.
maga don and his immoral magats all also are killing hundreds of thousands.
A gang of killers -maga
Defunding USAID
Funding Israeli weapons
The Iran war
Denying Ukraine defensive aid
War on women’s health funding
Denying poor and seniors food , medicaid
So What!
I hear democracy. And donkey party democrats. First words that comes to mind is fraud and deflection non American.
Went we think of republicans gathering around fox news. Sucking up fresh Russian Propaganda. It’s so touching …
Did you realize we have been wanting a ballroom for one hundred and fifty years ? No shit …
Dementia don is trashing America, it’s economy, dollar, jobs, people, it’s future.
The Iran war will go down as the greatest blunder of all time.
A mentally ill man child, a corrupt party, and supreme court has caused a world crisis not seen before.
A food, energy crisis gripping south east Asia.
maga don must be stopped.
A CBO report shows the Nat Debt is 100% caused by the Reagan, bush, trump tax cuts on the wealthy and corporations.
100% caused by Republican tax cuts.
Nat Debt-$40 trillion now $60 trillion in 4 years
Stock market down again, factoring in a slowing economy, rising unemployment, inflation rising, a recession looming according to economists.
All caused by dementia don and maga Republicans.