Four Los Angeles-based MS-13 gang members have been convicted in three vicious murders in which the victims’ remains were disposed of in the Angeles National Forest, federal officials announced.
Authorities said the killings occurred in 2017 and were tied to the Fulton clique of MS-13, a San Fernando Valley faction accused of enforcing increasingly violent gang rules that rewarded members for committing murders.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in L.A. argued the attacks were designed to eliminate suspected rivals, punish violations of gang rules and elevate participants within the organization…