Miguel Angel Manjivar, Murder in Aid of Racketeering, Maryland 2016

MS-13 Member Sentenced to Life for Murder in Maryland

Miguel Angel Manjivar, a 25-year-old Hyattsville man, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and to life in prison for murder in aid of racketeering, in connection with his gang activities as a member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.

U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus of the District of Maryland imposed the consecutive prison sentences on Manjivar, who was convicted by a federal jury on Sept. 30, 2016. In addition to his prison sentence, Manjivar was ordered to serve five years of supervised release.

Manjivar was a member of the MS-13 Peajes Locotes Salvatrucha clique, which operates in Prince George’s County and Montgomery County, Maryland. The gang requires its members to commit acts of violence to maintain membership and discipline within the gang.

According to evidence presented at Manjivar’s three-week trial, from at least 2009 through October 2014, MS-13 members planned and committed numerous crimes, including murders, attempted murders, kidnappings, assaults, robberies, and witness tampering and retaliation in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties.

Manjivar was involved in two murders, including one on Sept. 16, 2010, in which he shot and killed an individual he believed to be a rival gang member on the footbridge of a park in Hyattsville. He also participated in the murder of another person on Jan. 10, 2011, and attempted to murder another purported rival gang member in a parking lot in Hyattsville.

The investigation into MS-13’s activities in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties was a joint effort between HSI Baltimore, the Prince George’s County and Montgomery County Police Departments, and the Prince George’s County and Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Offices. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys William D. Moomau and Lindsay Eyler Kaplan of the District of Maryland and Trial Attorney Catherine K. Dick of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section.

Fourteen of the 15 defendants charged in this investigation have been convicted for their roles in the racketeering conspiracy. The final defendant is a fugitive.

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