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| Your Weekly East Boston MS-13 Gang Update: Member gets 21 months on RICO charge and for selling gun to informant | |
| 2018-11-03 | |
With credit for the 15 months he has already spent in federal custody, that means Landaverde, 26, will be released in six months - after which, the US Attorney's office in Boston says, he faces deportation to his native El Salvador. Landaverde, who pleaded guilty in July, was captured via a wire selling the gun to the informant - who had legal issues of his own - in a car parked on Chestnut Street in Everett on April 29, 2015. The informant was working with federal and state investigators on what turned into a 61-person indictment in 2016. Landaverde, though, escaped arrest until last year, when a state trooper who had been involved in the larger investigation spotted him walking down Everett Avenue in Chelsea. Landaverde, a member of MS-13's Trece Locos Salvatrucha "clique" in Somerville, was charged with a RICO violation and being an alien in possession of a firearm, but in documents filed in US District Court in Boston, officials said he had links to other crimes: The hand-to-hand gun sale took up only a small portion of the meeting between Scooby and [the informant]. During the rest of the meeting, Scooby discussed his membership in MS-13 and his participation in the MS-13 RICO conspiracy. He discussed using the firearm he sold, he discussed attacking gang rivals with a machete, and he discussed being attacked himself by rival gang members. | |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #2 I think it is more about developing informants, overlooking their misdeeds while working your way up the food chain, and building your career. Whitey Bulger could not be reached for comment. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-11-03 19:39 |
| #1 I thought RICO was about locking up and throwing away the key. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-11-03 19:31 |