NBC4 Columbus.com, OH
The gang is called Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, named after the 13th Street area of Los Angeles. They are Salvadoran immigrants who came to the United States starting in the 1980s during a civil war in their native country, taking over drugs, and being responsible for kidnappings and murders on the streets in California, Bowersock reported.
Police don't know many gang members there are, but believe they are operating in the area of the Lincoln Park West apartments, and along Morse Road, east of Interstate 71.
In January, Nelson Alexander Flores, a known MS-13 leader, was arrested in Columbus, the first public example of an MS-13 presence, Bowersock reported.
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