MS-13 leader indicted in plot to kill witness

Published September 21, 2008 4:00am ET



An illegal immigrant who led a Fairfax County-based MS-13 cell was indicted late last week for allegedly conspiring to murder a federal witness who helped put a former leader of the group behind bars for life in 2006.

According to court records, Erick Turcios-Lazo, also known as “Scorpion,” attended two general MS-13 meetings in January where he and other gang members discussed killing a fellow member they believed to have been a government witness in the 2006 trial of former clique leader Wilfredo Montoya Baires.

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