The leader of a Maryland branch of the international MS-13 gang was convicted Friday by a federal jury on racketeering and murder charges along with two other members, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced.
Los Ghettos Criminales Salvatruchas leader Jose Domingo Ordonez-Zometa, 33, of Landover, Maryland, along with Jose Rafael Ortega-Ayala, 30, of Greenbelt, Maryland and Jose Henry Hernandez-Garcia, 29 of Annandale, Virginia were convicted of “racketeering and murder in aid of racketeering conspiracies, for committing murder in aid of racketeering, and for conspiracy to destroy and conceal evidence,” of their membership in MS-13, according to the USAO-MD release.