{"id":6812,"date":"2014-10-22T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T04:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2014-11-05T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T05:43:04","slug":"ms-13-gang-members-sentenced-prison-killing-innocent-man-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=6812","title":{"rendered":"MS-13 Gang Members Sentenced to Prison for Killing an Innocent Man by Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FBI Photo File – MS-13 Gang Member<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SAN FRANCISCO<\/strong> \u2013 Three members of La Mara Salvatrucha \u2013 also known as the \u201cMS-13\u201d gang \u2013 were each sentenced on Wednesday to 27 years in prison for the June 21, 2010, murder of Alexander Temaj-Castanon who was mistaken for a rival gang member, officials said.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Davie Jimmy Mejia-Sensente<\/strong>, a\/k\/a \u201cCrazy\u201d or \u201cLoco,\u201d 31, Carlos Mejia- Quintanilla<\/strong>, a\/k\/a \u201cSleepy\u201d or \u201cDormido,\u201d 25, and Luis Amilar-Zanas,<\/strong> a\/k\/a \u201cTrucha,\u201d 35, were all members of MS-13. MS-13 is a transnational street gang with local chapters, or \u201ccliques,\u201d throughout the world, including El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

MS-13 members engage in crimes such as murder, narcotics trafficking, and obstruction of justice and pose a high national threat assessment, according to the \u00a0FBI.<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the rules of the gang is to seek out and kill rival gang members.<\/p>\n

In the San Francisco Bay Area, MS-13\u2019s principal rival has been and remains the Norte\u00f1os, gang members who have roots in Northern California and who claim allegiance to the Nuestra Familia prison gang.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Mejia-Sensente, Mejia-Quintanilla, and Amilar-Zanas were all MS-13 members since at least 2002, originally joining the gang in their native El Salvador.<\/p>\n

During the late evening of June 20, 2010, the three were together on a Muni 14 Mission bus heading from San Francisco to Daly City.<\/p>\n

Alexander Temaj-Castanon got on the bus and sat near Mejia-Sensente, Mejia-Quintanilla, and Amilar-Zanas, and the three thought that Temaj-Castanon looked like a Norte\u00f1o gang member.<\/p>\n

As a result, they decided to kill him.<\/p>\n

This is what happened, according to officials:<\/strong><\/p>\n