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MS-13 Member Sentenced to 97 Months in Prison for Racketeering Conspiracy

A member of an international criminal gang was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy reports the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Massachusetts.

Modesto Ramirez, a/k/a “Snoopy,” 28, a Honduran national, was sentenced to 97 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Ramirez will also be subject to deportation proceedings upon completion of his sentence.

In May 2018, Ramirez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, more commonly referred to as RICO or racketeering conspiracy.

Ramirez was a member of the Trece Locos Salvatrucha or TLS clique of MS-13. The racketeering evidence against Ramirez included a recording made by a cooperating witness in which Ramirez discussed his intention and willingness to kill a gang rival.

After a multi-year investigation, Ramirez was one of dozens of leaders, members, and associates of MS-13 named in a superseding indictment unsealed in January 2016 that targeted MS-13’s criminal activities in Massachusetts. According to court documents, MS-13 members in Massachusetts engaged in a variety of racketeering acts and crimes of violence, including six different murders between October 2014 and January 2016, as well as numerous attempted murders and conspiracies to commit murder.

Officials say many other members of the TLS clique were also prosecuted as part of this case. In total, 49 defendants have been convicted as part of this ongoing prosecution. Of the 49 convictions, 40 were the result of guilty pleas like in the case of Ramirez, while nine others were convicted after trial.

 The international gang first formed in Los Angeles in the 1980’s and is known for acts of extreme violence including drive-by shootings and murders.
There are an estimated 8,000-10,000 MS-13 gang members nationally according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Gang Threat Assessment, a report compiled by the National Gang Intelligence Center that details the threat of gangs in the United States.
Brady Kenyon

Brady is a contributing writer for Conservative Daily News.

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