Elmer de Jesus Alas Candray, 27, was second-in-command of the MS-13 cell that claims Reston, Virginia, as its drug-dealing ...

Elmer De Jesus Alas Candray was promoted for his work killing suspected rivals and rebels within the Salvadoran group.

MS-13, a notoriously violent Central American ... and approved killings of rivals and others to gain power in the gang hierarchy and boost the clique's reputation. Victims ranged from teenagers ...

Prosecutors have said he was the second-in-commend in a gang clique operating in Brentwood ... with the clique in order to move up in the MS-13 hierarchy and bolster their group’s reputation.

An MS-13 gang leader who terrorized Northern Virginia ... because he was fixated on rising inside the gang’s hierarchy and instilling fear in the Reston area. At trial last year in U.S. District ...

Prosecutors have said he was the second-in-commend in a gang clique operating in Brentwood ... with the clique in order to move up in the MS-13 hierarchy and bolster their group's reputation.