Three MS-13 gang members were convicted Wednesday on murder and racketeering charges at a federal court in New Jersey.
The El Salvadoran men — Juan Pablo Escalante-Melgar, 32, Elmer Cruz-Diaz, 33, and Oscar Sanchez-Aguilar, 25 — committed the crimes related to murder, drug trafficking, witness tampering and extortion from September 2014 to October 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a press release.
