On Friday, a federal jury in Maryland convicted three members of the MS-13 gang in connection with a racketeering conspiracy that included murders, attempted murders, drug trafficking and witness tampering.

The defendants, 26-year-old Wilson Arturo Constanza-Galdomez of El Salvador, 24-year-old Edis Omar Valenzuela-Rodriguez of Honduras and 24-year-old Jonathan Pesquera-Puerto of Honduras, were convicted of federal racketeering charges, prosecutors said.

Constanza-Galdomez and Valenzuela-Rodriguez were also found guilty of two murders connected to the gang, while Pesquera-Puerto was convicted of one murder.

Authorities said the men were members or associates of local MS-13 cliques operating in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Between 2019 and 2021, they carried out a series of attac

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