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The last defendant of the six La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members who were convicted at two separate federal trials was sentenced Tuesday, officials announced.<\/span><\/p>\n

The six defendants were sentenced for racketeering conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy, and offenses related to the murders of four men in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to court documents and evidence presented in the two trials, the six defendants were members of MS-13\u2019s Sitios Locos Salvatrucha clique (STLS), which operated in Northern Virginia and elsewhere for years. <\/span><\/p>\n

From at least 2017 through 2020, MS-13 members and associates regularly traveled to and from Long Island, New York, for the purpose of obtaining cocaine from Marvin Menjivar Gutierrez, STLS\u2019s leader in the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n

From there, MS-13 members would transport the cocaine to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to be sold in nightclubs and bars. STLS used the proceeds of their cocaine sales to purchase more cocaine to sell, buy weapons, and support other MS-13 members in the United States and El Salvador.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese defendants\u2014members of the violent MS-13 gang\u2014sold drugs to fuel the gang\u2019s business, surveilled and tracked rival gang members, and even murdered innocent victims, all to increase the grip that MS-13 had on the community,\u201d said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department\u2019s Criminal Division.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the spring of 2019, Menjivar and Melvin Canales Saldana, STLS\u2019s second-in-command in the United States, ordered members to begin committing murders so that the junior members could rise in rank within MS-13 and amplify STLS\u2019s prestige and control. <\/span><\/p>\n

In June 2019, three MS-13 members, including Cristian Arevalo Arias and Carlos Turcios Villatoro, lured Victim 1 and Victim 2 to a wooded area and murdered them by shooting and stabbing the victims. <\/span><\/p>\n

The MS-13 members believed Victim 1 belonged to a rival gang, and then murdered Victim 2 to avoid leaving any witnesses to Victim 1\u2019s murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

In August 2019, Canales ordered an MS-13 member to provide Arevalo with a firearm so that Arevalo, Manilester Andrade Rivas, and other MS-13 members could find and and kill any rival gang member. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Arevalo, Andrade, and others travelled to the Glen Arbor Apartments in Woodbridge, Virginia, in the hopes of encountering and murdering a rival. <\/span><\/p>\n

They encountered Victim\u00a03 and Arevalo shot him to death.<\/span><\/p>\n

In September 2019, Jairo Aguilera Sagastizado traveled to Woodbridge from New York and spent hours driving around Northern Virginia and Maryland with two other MS-13 members, looking for a rival gang member to murder at random so that they could rise in rank. <\/span><\/p>\n

Unable to find a rival, the group finally decided to murder Victim 4, whom they observed walking home from a 7-Eleven in Dumfries, Virginia. <\/span><\/p>\n

Aguilera and another MS-13 member shot Victim 4 multiple times, killing him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Multiple MS-13 members and associates pleaded guilty prior to trial. <\/span><\/p>\n

Below is additional information about the defendants, all of whom are Salvadoran nationals, who were convicted at trial and have been sentenced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Age<\/strong><\/td>\nResiding in<\/strong><\/td>\nConvictions<\/strong><\/td>\nSentence<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marvin Menjivar Gutierrez<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nNew York<\/td>\nRacketeering conspiracy; murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to distribute cocaine; use of firearm in federal violent crime resulting in death<\/td>\nMultiple life sentences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Melvin Canales Saldana<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nNew York<\/td>\nRacketeering conspiracy; murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to distribute cocaine; cocaine distribution<\/td>\nMultiple life sentences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cristian Arevalo Arias<\/td>\n28<\/td>\nVirginia<\/td>\nRacketeering conspiracy; two counts of murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to distribute cocaine; two counts of use of firearm in federal violent crime resulting in death; witness tampering by killing; cocaine distribution<\/td>\nMultiple life sentences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlos Turcios Villatoro<\/td>\n26<\/td>\nMaryland<\/td>\nRacketeering conspiracy; two counts of murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to distribute cocaine; two counts of use of firearm in federal violent crime resulting in death; witness tampering by killing<\/td>\nMultiple life sentences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jairo Aguilera Sagastizado<\/td>\n28<\/td>\nNew York<\/td>\nRacketeering conspiracy; murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to distribute cocaine; use of firearm in federal violent crime resulting in death<\/td>\nMultiple life sentences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manilester Andrade Rivas<\/td>\n34<\/td>\nVirginia<\/td>\nRacketeering conspiracy; conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering; conspiracy to distribute cocaine; cocaine distribution<\/td>\n14 years in prison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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