Three members of the transnational criminal organization Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13 , will spend decades behind bars for a string of grisly gangland killings in the Houston metro area.

Each of the defendants – El Salvadoran nationals to the last – was arrested in September 2018 by a task force of local authorities, county officials, and federal prosecutors. The crimes in question date back to 2017 and include the dismemberment of a teenage girl.

On Monday, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced the trio will be sentenced to 50 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts in the sprawling racketeering case against them.

"Here, defendants carried out a series of murders – bludgeoning, butchering, and strangling their victims with sadistic glee," the

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