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The gang now has a large presence in New York, Southern California, Washington D.C. and many
rural areas on the East coast with substantial Salvadoran populations. And in any community where
the gang operates, its members often prey on its own people, targeting residents and business
owners for extortion, among other crimes.
"MS-13 functions like all immigrant organized crime groups, they start by targeting their own
community," Lou Gentile, a former officer at the Organized Crime Unit of the Pennsylvania State
Police and founder of the investigative firm CSI, told Fox News Latino. "You're seeing a growing
Hispanic population in the Carolinas and MS-13 preys on their own, they exploit their own."
In May, three alleged MS-13 members were charged in the murder of three Long Island men and
plotting to kill four others.
Federal prosecutors indicted Edwin "Scarface" Acosta-Martinez, Sergio "Taz" Cerna and Arnolvin
"Momia" Umanzor Velasquez on charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and racketeering.
The three men allegedly killed another MS-13 member who was supposedly distancing himself from
the gang and whom they feared was a police informant.
They allegedly killed his brother, who was member of another MS-13 clique, to pre-empt his
presumed retaliation
"MS-13 is a scourge on our communities," said Diego Rodriguez, assistant director-in-charge of the
FBIs New York Field Office, according to Long Island Press. "The three defendants charged today
with murder demonstrate the extraordinary violence of this gang."
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