A federal grand jury in Tennessee has indicted nine suspected MS-13 gang members with racketeering and violent criminal conspiracy that includes murder, officials announced Wednesday. The grand jury returned the charges in a 60-count second superseding indictment against Carlos Ochoa-Martinez, 31; Jason Sandoval, 35; Jorge Flores, 29; Kevin Tidwell, 28, all of Nashville—Jose Pineda-Caceres, 22; Franklin Hernandez, 22; Luis Colindres, 24, all of Honduras—as well as Gerson Serrano-Ramirez, 34, of El Salvador and Juan Melendez of Lebanon, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement. All suspected gang members are currently in federal custody and face, if convicted, a maximum sentence of ten years to life in prison. “The indictment charges members of one such clique operating in Nashville … with committing a wide range of offenses, including the murder of seven individuals, the attempted murder of an additional five individuals, drug distribution, robberies, kidnappings, and assaults,” the DOJ said. The victims …
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