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The concrete jungle of Baltimore just got a little safer, but not before three MS-13 savages left a trail of blood and terror that will haunt the city for years. A Maryland federal jury slammed the gavel on Wilson Arturo Constanza-Galdomez (aka Humilde, aka Marco Saravia, 26, from El Salvador), Edis Omar Valenzuela-Rodriguez (aka Little Felon, 24, from Honduras), and Jonathan Pesquera-Puerto (aka Truney, 24, from Honduras) for a rampage of racketeering, murders, and attempted murders that turned neighborhoods into killing fields. These crimes were a middle finger to humanity, capped by the gut-wrenching slaughter of a woman stabbed 143 times.
Court records read like a horror script. MS-13, the notorious transnational gang rooted in Central American immigrant communities, operates like a death cult. Its members, grouped in "cliques" like the Carlington Locos Salvatrucha and Huntington Criminales Locos Salvatrucha, climb the ranks by spilling blood. The rulebook’s simple: hunt and kill rivals—called "chavalas"—whenever you can. In Baltimore City and County, MS-13's beef with the 18th Street Gang fueled a vicious cycle of machetes and body bags.
"Over the course of a few short months, these defendants – seeking to be promoted within the ranks of the designated foreign terrorist organization MS-13 – spread fear through the streets of Baltimore by committing brutal and heinous acts, including the murder of two young women," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. "Today's verdict demonstrates the Department of Justice’s unwavering commitment to prosecuting MS-13 members to the fullest extent of the law in order to eradicate the transnational street gang, obtain a measure of justice for their victims, and restore the safety and security of our communities."
Constanza-Galdomez and Pesquera-Puerto ran with the Carlington crew, while Valenzuela-Rodriguez repped the Huntington clique. From June 2019 to at least October 2021, these guys were neck-deep in MS-13's dirty work: two murders, four attempted murders, and witness tampering to keep their reign of terror airtight.
"The MS-13 gang continues to show a total disregard for human life," said U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes for the District of Maryland. "These defendants’ commitment to carrying out multiple vicious attacks and murders, including the killing a 16-year-old girl, is unconscionable. Members of this ruthless, international gang thrive on murdering and terrorizing others, and in this case, did so to advance their standing within this lawless organization. We, along with our law-enforcement partners, are committed to relentlessly pursuing and prosecuting those who commit these despicable crimes and dismantling the violent criminal organizations that terrorize our communities."
The carnage kicked off on April 25, 2020, when Constanza-Galdomez, Valenzuela-Rodriguez, and their MS-13 brothers targeted a man they pegged as a rival. They hunted him down in Baltimore, hacking at his face and arm with machetes, leaving him scarred but alive.“The defendants convicted today engaged in excessive and brutal violence as members of MS-13, a transnational criminal organization that routinely shows contempt for the rule of law,” said Assistant Director Jose A. Perez of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division. "We are proud of the work that has taken these individuals off the streets so that they can no longer harm the community of the greater Baltimore area, and we will continue our nationwide efforts in thwarting MS-13."
On May 29, 2020, the gang's depravity hit a new low. They lured 16-year-old Gabriela Gonzalez-Ardon to a secluded spot near Loch Raven Reservoir in Cockeysville, Maryland, suspecting she was cozy with rival gang members. There, Constanza-Galdomez, Valenzuela-Rodriguez, Pesquera-Puerto, and their crew hacked her to death with machetes, her young life snuffed out to score points with MS-13's shot-callers.
A week later, on June 5, 2020, the same crew set their sights on Michelle Tenezaca, a woman they thought was a rival snitch. They lured her to the CSX Bayview Train Yard in Baltimore, where they unleashed hell—stabbing her 143 times and leaving her body by the tracks. Like clockwork, they bragged to MS-13’s higher-ups, chasing clout in their twisted world.
The horror didn't stop there. On June 6, 2020, Constanza-Galdomez, Valenzuela-Rodriguez, and their gang cornered a man and his girlfriend—the sister of one of their murder victims—at a Baltimore library. They ordered younger MS-13 members to drag the woman to the same train yard where Tenezaca died, where they stabbed her over 70 times. Meanwhile, the man was forced at knifepoint to Dundalk, where the gang tried to finish him off with a flurry of knife wounds. Miraculously, both survived.
The jury didn’t flinch. Constanza-Galdomez and Valenzuela-Rodriguez got hit with conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and two counts each of murder in aid of racketeering. Pesquera-Puerto was convicted of conspiracy and one count of murder in aid of racketeering. All three face mandatory life sentences, with a federal judge set to finalize their fate based on U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
The FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, Baltimore City and County Police, and U.S. Marshals Service cracked this case wide open. Trial Attorneys Grace Bowen and Christopher Taylor, alongside Assistant U.S. Attorney James Wallner, are prosecuting, determined to bury these gangsters under the weight of justice.
This bloodbath is part of a bigger fight; Operation Take Back America, a nationwide DOJ push to crush cartels, transnational gangs like MS-13, and the violent crime tearing through our cities. These convictions send a message: no matter how sharp your machete, the law's reach is longer.
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