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Activities

Location

  • Have been known to be involved in burglaries, auto thefts, narcotic sales, home-invasion robberies, weapons smuggling, illegal firearm sales, car-jackings, extortion, murder, rape, prostitution, assault, and witness intimidation
  • They make money by selling drugs and weapons
  • Began in Los Angeles and has since then extended to Canada, throughout Mexico, and into Central American countries such as El Salvador
  • Located in the U.S. in places such as Washington DC, Oregon, Alaska, Arkansas, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida

MS-13 (About)

Works Cited

Members

  • The gang has an estimated 10,000 members in the U.S. alone
  • Has about 70,000 members total
  • They form cliques that contain 10 to 500 people each

http://gangs.umd.edu/gangs/MS13.aspx

http://www.insightcrime.org/el-salvador-organized-crime-news/mara-salvatrucha-ms-13-profile

http://altereddimensions.net/2012/ms13-gang

  • Originated in Los Angeles, California in the 1980s
  • Formed by immigrant Salvadorian youth and people who were being targeted by other gangs in the area
  • Quickly became one of the most violent gangs because the founders had experience in guerilla warfare

Initiation

Identification

  • Members identify themselves through tattoos, clothing, graffiti, and hand signals
  • Members may display the number 13 in Arabic or Roman numerals
  • They typically use the colors blue and black to represent themselves
  • Use the word sureño, which means Southerner
  • In order to be accepted into the gang you must commit some sort of violent crime against someone else (beating, rape, or murder)
  • They heavily recruit new members of age 10 and up
  • It has been said that an exception to participation is if a person wants to leave the gang to start a family and have children

Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) Gang

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