Federal prosecutors say more lives will be lost if a Virginia gang leader does not receive the maximum sentence for planning to kill a woman whose testimony in a 2006 murder trial helped put a fellow MS-13 member behind bars for life.
Erick Turcios-Lazo is expected to be sentenced today in Alexandria’s federal court. Prosecutors want a federal judge to put Turcios-Lazo behind bars for 10 years before he is deported for being an illegal immigrant.
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