Ten MS 13 gang members are accused of seven homicides (PHOTOS)

• Ten MS-13 gang members charged with seven brutal homicides.
• Violent gang members attacked in Houston and Galveston.
• Several surviving victims were mutilated with machetes.

Ten dangerous MS-13 gang members were arrested in Texas, accused of a long list of crimes including brutal homicides. The United States Department of Justice revealed the accusations against gang members from El Salvador, who operated in Houston and Galveston.

In Texas, Walter Antonio ‘Mejía’ Chicas Arcia, Luis Ernesto ‘Destino’ Carbajal Peraza, Carlos Alexi ‘Lil Maligno’ García Góngora, Wilson José ‘Discreto’ Ventura Mejía, Wilman ‘Restless’, Rivas Guido, Carlos Elías, Kalín’ Henríquez Torres, Ángel Miguel ‘Darki’ Aguilar Ochoa and Marlon ‘Chinki’ Miranda Morán have been detained.

Ten MS-13 gang members are accused of seven homicides

Federal, state and local agents from Texas and Maryland coordinated to investigate and arrest the ten MS-13 gang members. (PHOTO: Homeland Security Investigations)

Franklin ‘Impulsive’ and Julio ‘Hades’ Vigil López were detained in El Salvador. The two await extradition to the United States to face criminal proceedings. The charges the gang members face include seven murders, seven attempted murders, weapons possession and criminal conspiracy.

According to the charges against the ten MS-13 gang members, they organized a wave of terror between 2015 and 2018 with a series of attacks and crimes ordered by their bosses from El Salvador. The gang members wanted to take over different neighborhoods in Texas.

The brutal gang members attacked victims in Houston and Texas

PHOTO: US Marshals

The level of brutality perpetrated by MS-13 gang members in Texas surprised even authorities who called the group of detainees a plague. The names of the victims of gang crimes will not be revealed in this story to protect their families in Houston and Galveston.

The MS 13 gang members didn’t just kill seven people. The documents of the case detail that the Salvadorans attacked their victims with machetes until they died. The victims include a teenage girl and a police informer. Other victims survived, but were mutilated.

Authorities call MS-13 a plague on America

PHOTO: US Marshals

Mark Dawson, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent (HSI), detailed that «as the allegations in the indictment demonstrate, transnational criminal street gangs like MS-13 are a plague on society and must be eradicated in the interest of public safety and national security.”

HSI federal agents coordinated with officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Marshals specialized in searching for violent fugitives, the Houston Police Department (HPD) and Galveston Police Department (GPD).

All the detainees are part of MS 13 leadership

PHOTO: US Marshals

The indictment against the ten Salvadoran MS-13 gang members reveals that the detainees were not ordinary members of the dangerous gang. The defendants are part of the leadership of the gang in Texas and with criminal ties to Maryland.

Jennifer B. Lowery, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, stated that the arrests of the ten MS-13 gang members is “an important step in curbing crime in Texas and a message to criminal organizations that federal authorities are working with local corporations to stop their violence.”