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Plainfield MS-13 Member Admits to Plotting Murder and Witness Retaliation
A 27-year-old Plainfield man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
Julio Adalberto Orellana-Carranza, aka Player, pleaded guilty on an unspecified date to one count of conspiring to engage in a racketeering enterprise. He remains detained pending sentencing on May 4, 2016.
According to court documents, MS-13 is a national and international gang with branches or ‘cliques’ operating throughout the United States, including in Plainfield. Orellana-Carranza admitted that he was a member of the Plainfield Locos Salvatrucha (PLS) Clique of MS-13 for a period of time continuing through at least August 2011.
Orellana-Carranza admitted that in June 2011, he and other members of the PLS clique plotted to kill rival gang members in Plainfield. He also admitted that after local authorities arrested him for that plot, he and other jailed MS-13 members hatched a plan to intimidate and/or kill individuals they believed were cooperating with law enforcement in the prosecution of MS-13 members.
Orellana-Carranza’s co-defendant, Jose Romero-Aguirre, aka Conejo, pleaded guilty on December 2, 2015. Eleven other members and associates of the PLS Clique are scheduled for trial in front of U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler on February 9, 2016. The charges against them include several counts of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, robbery, extortion, witness retaliation, and sexual assault.
The FBI’s Newark Division, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’s Newark Field Office, ICE-Enforcement and Removal Operations, the Plainfield Police Department, and the Union County, New Jersey, Prosecutor’s Office investigated the case. Trial Attorney Kevin L. Rosenberg of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys James Donnelly and Jamari Buxton of the District of New Jersey are prosecuting this case.
Orellana-Carranza’s guilty plea is a significant blow to MS-13’s operations in New Jersey. The gang’s violent activities have been a major concern for law enforcement agencies in the state.
Key Facts
- State: New Jersey
- Category: Violent Crime|Organized Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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