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 ...

Hundreds of federal and local law enforcement fanned out across Los Angeles, serving arrest and search warrants as part of a three-year investigation into the violent and brutal street gang MS-13.

MS-13 began in Los Angeles in the 1980s amid a flood of Salvadorans fleeing a civil war to the US. It was the US deporting these immigrants in the ’90s back to Central America that sent the gang ...

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 ...

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 – The Latest on a pre-dawn sweep of MS-13 gang members in Los Angeles (all times local): 8:43 a.m. Twenty-one members and associates of a brutal gang known as MS-13 were arrested ...