A federal grand jury in Tennessee has indicted nine suspected MS-13 gang members with racketeering and violent criminal conspiracy that includes murder, officials announced Wednesday.
The grand jury returned the charges in a 60-count second superseding indictment against Carlos Ochoa-Martinez, 31; Jason Sandoval, 35; Jorge Flores, 29; Kevin Tidwell, 28, all of Nashville—Jose Pineda-Caceres, 22; Franklin Hernandez, 22; Luis Colindres, 24, all of Honduras—as well as Gerson Serrano-Ramirez, 34, of El Salvador and Juan Melendez of Lebanon, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement.
