NEW JERSEY
A member of MS-13, a violent criminal street gang, admitted to planning to kill rival gang and witnesses, according to authorities.
Julio Adalberto Orellana-Carranza, aka Player, 27, plead guilty in federal court to conspiracy to engage in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha MS-13, officials said.
U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler of New Jersey also on Wednesday set sentencing for May 4.
Orellana-Carranza, of Plainfield, New Jersey, remains detained pending sentencing.
A Plainfield, New Jersey, man pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to engage in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
According to court documents, these are the facts:
- MS-13 is a national and international gang with branches or “cliques” operating throughout the United States, including in Plainfield.
- Orellana-Carranza admitted that he was a member of the Plainfield Locos Salvatrucha clique of MS-13 for a period of time continuing through at least August 2011.
- Orellana-Carranza admitted that in June 2011, he and other members of the Plainfield Locos clique plotted to kill rival gang members in Plainfield.
- Orellana-Carranza also admitted that after local authorities arrested him for that plot, he and other jailed MS-13 members hatched a plan to intimidate and/or kill individuals they believed were cooperating with law enforcement in the prosecution of MS-13 members.
Eleven other members and associates of the Plainfield Locos clique are scheduled for trial in front of Judge Chesler on Feb. 9, 2016. The charges include several counts of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, robbery, extortion, witness retaliation and sexual assault.
Co-defendant Jose Romero-Aguirre, aka Conejo, plead guilty on Dec. 2.