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Federal prosecutors in LA charge MS-13 drug suspects linked to Mexican Mafia leader

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles charged 23 alleged members and associates of the MS-13 gang in a conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine, authorities announced Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference in downtown L.A., E. Martin Estrada, the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, called drug sales "the lifeblood" of the gang, which was born 40 years ago in Los ...
E. Martin Estrada, United States attorney for the Central District of California, speaks and is joined by federal and local law enforcement officials announcing a federal drug trafficking indictment targeting members and associates of notorious transnational gang MS-13 during a press conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023.

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles charged 23 alleged members and associates of the MS-13 gang in a conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine, authorities announced Tuesday.

Speaking at a news conference in downtown L.A., E. Martin Estrada, the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, called drug sales "the lifeblood" of the gang, which was born 40 years ago in Los Angeles before deported members carried it back to their home countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

In California, prosecutors said, MS-13 answers to the Mexican Mafia, an organization of

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