MS-13 gang members deported to El Salvador to face homicide charges

By Harriet RyanStaff Writer

May 30, 2015 9:57 AM PT

Two members of the violent street gang MS-13 have been deported from Los Angeles to their native El Salvador to face charges of aggravated homicide, according to U.S. immigration officials.

The fugitives, Gerson Segovia Alvarado and Nilson Lozano Hernandez, were flown to San Salvador and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handed them over to authorities there Wednesday, officials said.

Alvardo is wanted in the 2013 murder of a man beaten to death with a baseball bat. Hernandez is accused in a separate homicide, the 2008 shooting of a rival gang member.

The deportations were part of an ICE program, the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement, that has returned more than 550 fugitives to El Salvador in the last three years.

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Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

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