MS-13, also known as "Mara Salvatrucha," is believed to have been founded as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s by people fleeing civil war and violence in El Salvador.

Washington (7News) — An MS-13 gang member was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. Elmer Lopez-Cortez, 26, of Silver Spring ...