Escalante-Torres and Ramirez-Avelar executed a plan on Sept. 22, 2016, to fatally shoot a man, unaffiliated with a rival gang, who would routinely walk late at night to pick up his fiancée at a taqueria.
Federal prosecutors struck a plea deal with two men in August 2024 for racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit a murder in aid of racketeering and using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death.
The Salvadoran-based gang La Mara Salvatrucha, known as MS-13, had established a Santa Cruz-based arm rewarding members' criminal activities benefiting the gang, including violent crimes such as murder and attempted murder of rival gang members.
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