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 ...

(CNN) - Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged leader of the Los Angeles-based MS-13 gang. Francisco Javier Román-Bardales is on the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives list. Mexican authorities say ...

MS-13, also known as “La Mara Salvatrucha,” grew out of a Los Angeles street gang that was formed by Central American immigrants in the 1980s, and metastasized into one of the nation’s most ...