MS-13 member gets 10 years in sex-trafficking case

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An Alexandria member of the MS-13 gang has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking runaway girls as prostitutes.

Alexander Rivas, 19, was sentenced in federal court in Alexandria. According to prosecutors, he recruited girls who had runaway from home and transported them to work as prostitutes in Virginia, Maryland and the District.

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