Despite Los Angeles authorities’ long history fighting MS-13, the gang has found a recent spotlight under the Trump administration as part of its border security and immigration enforcement efforts.

Police arrested nearly two dozen MS-13 members after a two-year investigation. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Los Angeles Times crime reporter Richard Winton about the gang's history.

Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra Brown said the 127-page anti-racketeering indictment targets 44 members and associates of the gang, including the one-time leader of a Los Angeles faction of MS-13.

An FBI employee, who declined to give her name, holds a board showing images of MS-13 gang members during a news conference Wednesday, May 17, 2017, in Los Angeles.

As detailed in the indictment, Mara Salvatrucha — known as MS-13 —originated in Los Angeles and has since spread across the country. The gang is organized by cliques, such as Hollywood Locos ...

21 arrested in Los Angeles police raids of MS-13 street gang Spectators sport paper hats and umbrellas to stay cool Wednesday before Columbia University’s graduation ceremony in New York where ...

LOS ANGELES (TND) — Twenty-three members and associates of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13) gang were indicted in California for trafficking methamphetamine at the direction of an incarcerated ...

Alex Sanchez is a former high-ranking member of MS-13. He became involved in the gang in the 1980s in Los Angeles and participated in its expansion. Sanchez was deported to El Salvador in 1994 ...

Residents of Los Angeles, Van Nuys, Inglewood and Hawthorne were among the suspects arrested Tuesday in the crackdown, authorities said. Skip to content All Sections ...

LOS ANGELES (TND) — Twenty-three members and associates of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13) gang were indicted in California for trafficking methamphetamine at the direction of an incarcerated ...