John Colello, homicide chief for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, where MS-13 originated in the 1980s, said ...

Mexican law enforcement is watching for potential blowback after the reputed leader of the "Old School" faction of the Barrio Azteca gang was gunned down in a car with two of his children in Juárez.

In a series of three interviews between 2022 and 2023, US consular officials accused him of affiliation with the Barrio Azteca gang solely on ... The use of tattoos to remove people under the ...

The document notes that migrants who score eight points or higher on the checklist "are validated as members" of the gang and thus subject to arrest and removal. "Tattoos denoting membership ...

Their evidence was a tattoo on his left forearm of ... an affiliated youth gang, according to the Police Department’s most recent data — among 13,304 known gang members in New York City.

Gang tattoos were once a vital currency in El Salvador, just a few years ago when it was known as the “murder capital of the world.” Some designs confirmed membership of MS-13 or 18th Street ...

Steven Dudley, the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime and author of the book “MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang,” said that the use of tattoos as displays of ...

E L PASO, Texas — A reputed Barrio Azteca gang member was arrested on three criminal warrants on Friday morning, March 28 in Socorro and is now facing a new charge of possession of heroin ...

During an interview on Complex’s GOAT Talk with his 'Accountant 2' co-star Jon Bernthal, the actor was asked to share the story of the worst tattoo he has ever gotten. Bernthal opened the ...

But gang experts disagree, telling CNN that the tattoos alone are not proof of membership in the gang. “I see a bunch of symbols that could be interpreted any number of ways,” Jorja Leap ...

but there was no actual evidence demonstrating a link between the tattoos and the El Salvadoran gang. Trump's photo of the tattoos was edited, likely in an attempt to add context The photo held ...