Erick Turcios-Lazo of MS-13 and Peru Connection

TBDA suggests that an IP Adress in Peru has repeated and systematic interest in Erick Turcios-Lazo of MS-13. This suggests that the following IP address may be associated with MS-13

Someone at 190.236.242.197 in Lima Peru used a high resolution MAC (1280x1024) USING Operating System X on the isp Telefonica Del Peru.

Most recently, at 19th April 2011 10:05:05 Local time, they used an english language google search for the specific name "Erick Turcios-Lazo"

-Federico Gochoa

< >MS-13 leader indicted in plot to kill witness

An illegal immigrant who led a Fairfax County-based MS-13 cell was indicted late last week for allegedly conspiring to murder a federal witness who helped put a former leader of the group behind bars for life in 2006.

According to court records, Erick Turcios-Lazo, also known as “Scorpion,” attended two general MS-13 meetings in January where he and other gang members discussed killing a fellow member they believed to have been a government witness in the 2006 trial of former clique leader Wilfredo Montoya Baires.

Later that month, Fairfax County police learned from an informant that Turcios-Lazo met with gang members and pushed for the “green light” to murder the “snitch” who court records list only as “L.Q.”

In September 2006, L.Q. was seen by gang members at the Alexandria branch of the U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia while she was responding to a subpoena to testify in the Baires trial, records said. The January vote taken by cell members in favor of ending L.Q.’s life never played out. But in 2004, Baires orchestrated the death of another gang member, named Jose Escobar.

Baires was convicted of coercing fellow gang members to kill Escobar, who he claimed was a government informant.

But in fact, witnesses said, Baires was trying to keep Escobar from usurping his power. Escobar’s death was among a string of gang-related homicides that led federal and state authorities to pour resources into Northern Virginia to fight the rising tide of gang activity.

Since then, the murders have fallen dramatically.

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