Apr 19, 2017 · MS-13 has been accused of recruiting poor and at-risk teenagers. Joining is said to require being "jumped in" - subjected to a vicious 13-second beating - and "getting wet" -...

Santa Monica 13 or SMG is a Mexican-American street gang located in Santa Monica, California, United States. They reside mainly in the Pico neighborhood. Even though Santa Monica 13 is a Sureño gang, they wear their traditional black bandanas. The acronym SM17 refers to Santa Monica 17th Street, which is the gang's primary subset or "clique".

Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang and US-designated terrorist organization [17] that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in …

Apr 25, 2023 · NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Mara Salvatrucha, better known as the MS-13 gang, is one of the most feared gangs in the United States, with an estimated 6,000 to 10,000 members.

The Santa Monica 13 (SMG), also known as Santa Monica Trece or SMG (for Santa Monica Gang), are a Chicano street gang based in the Pico neighborhood of Santa Monica, California. They are mostly known for their decades-old rivalries with neighboring gangs in Santa Monica, Venice, Culver City, and West Los Angeles.

Mar 3, 2017 · MS-13, also known as La Mara Salvatrucha is also one of the largest criminal organizations in the United States, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts. Here is some...

La Mara Salvatrucha, known colloquially and infamously as MS-13, is a vicious, barbaric street gang. Now in as many as 40 states across the U.S., MS-13 members murder and rape, maim and terrorize. The stories of their depraved crimes are legendary. These are truths that no …

Apr 2, 2022 · MS-13: America's most dangerous street gang? An MS-13 gang leader whose brutality a federal prosecutor described as “almost unfathomable” has been sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy to...

Mar 2, 2025 · The Santa Monica 13, also known as SMG and SM13, is a Mexican American Sureño gang that has been implicated in murder, drug trafficking, and robbery. SM13 originates from 13th Street and is active in the Pico district in Santa Monica.

Nov 14, 2023 · The indictment returned November 8 and unsealed today alleges that an imprisoned MS-13 member who also was a member of the Mexican Mafia controlled MS-13 Los Angeles by imposing a rule on all the gang’s Los Angeles-area cliques that required them to buy methamphetamine from Herlyn Barrientos, 46, a.k.a. “Doctorazo,” of Huntington Park ...