The indictment mentioned MS-13 managed its actions by way of a proper hierarchy, which on the lowest stage contains teams often known as “cliques,” which themselves have been organized into “packages.”
By 2015, MS-13 had tens of 1000’s of members in additional than 200 cliques and dozens of packages in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, the US and elsewhere, the indictment mentioned.
The group’s members additionally trafficked medication, extorted people and companies and wired the proceeds from their crimes again to MS-13 members in El Salvador, the indictment charged. The funds have been used to struggle the federal government there.
“The Ranfla Nacional directed the gathering of cash from each clique,” the indictment mentioned, together with in New York, “for use to fund the acquisition of weapons, together with machine weapons, handguns, grenades, IEDs and physique armor for use to assault police, army and authorities officers in El Salvador, in retaliation for taking actions towards MS-13.”
The indictment charged that the Ranfla Nacional used cellphones smuggled into jails and prisons, and encrypted communications methods, to debate gang-related enterprise and to direct the gang’s actions.
The federal government mentioned the US would discover choices for the lads’s extradition from El Salvador.
The costs have been introduced by Mr. Rosen, Mr. DuCharme, Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, and different federal legislation enforcement officers.