Gang member found guilty of double murder - CharlotteObserver.com

Gang member found guilty of double murder - CharlotteObserver.com: "MS-13 gang member guilty of two murders and other federal charges. Jurors must now decide whether he's eligible to face the death penalty.
Alejandro Umana, 25, also was found guilty of conspiring to extort money from Charlotte drug dealers to increase MS-13's revenues, and of intimidating witnesses to prevent them from cooperating with authorities investigating the murders.
Prosecutors said Umana killed two brothers in a restaurant in Greensboro in December 2007 to maintain MS-13's reputation and to advance his position within the gang's criminal enterprise.
Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for only the second time in Charlotte since capital punishment was reinstated for federal crimes in 1988."

MS-13 gang member Victor Ramirez sentenced to 60 years in prison

Victor Ramirez of Hyattsville and a native of El Salvador was convicted in November after a monthlong trial. The racketeering enterprise activities included three murders.U.S. District judge has sentenced a MS-13 gang member to 60 years in prison for conspiring to take part in racketeering enterprise activities.
Witnesses testified that Ramirez, 30, entered the U.S. from El Salvador through Mexico, and that he had arrived in Maryland with another gang member. Ramirez and an MS-13 leader from El Salvador told witnesses that Ramirez had been sent to Maryland to strengthen the gang in the state. Prosecutors say Ramirez and other gang members killed shot and killed two rival gang members in October 2005, and Ramirez provided a handgun that was used in the slaying of another man later that month.