BALTIMORE, MD, September 20, 2025 – A federal jury in Maryland convicted three men—Wilson Arturo Constanza-Galdomez, also known as Humilde; Marco Saravia, 26, of El Salvador; Edis Omar Valenzuela-Rodriguez, also known as Little Felon, 24, of Honduras; and Jonathan Pesquera-Puerto, also known as Truney, 24, of Honduras—for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise involving murders, attempted murders, and murder in aid of racketeering.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, the defendants were members or associates of MS-13, a transnational criminal organization with operations throughout Maryland and the United States. The gang, organized in local cliques, requires members to commit acts of violence, including murder, to rise in rank. In the Baltimore area, MS-13 maintained rivalries with groups such as the 18th Street Gang.
Federal prosecutors stated that the three men were involved in multiple violent crimes between June 2019 and October 2021. These included the murders of two young women, four attempted murders, and one count of witness tampering.
On April 25, 2020, Constanza-Galdomez and Valenzuela-Rodriguez took part in a machete attack on a man suspected of being a rival gang member in Baltimore. One month later, on May 29, 2020, Constanza-Galdomez, Valenzuela-Rodriguez, Pesquera-Puerto, and others lured 16-year-old Gabriela Gonzalez-Ardon to a wooded area near Loch Raven Reservoir and killed her by stabbing and slashing her multiple times. The killing was reported to MS-13 leadership to elevate the defendants’ standing within the gang.
On June 5, 2020, the defendants lured another female, Michelle Tenezaca, to an area near the CSX Bayview Train Yard in Baltimore, where she was stabbed 143 times. On the following day, they ordered the attempted murder of the sister of one of the victims and her boyfriend near a Baltimore library. The woman was stabbed over 70 times but survived. The man was forced at knifepoint to a second location in Dundalk, Maryland, where the group attempted to kill him by stabbing him multiple times. He also survived.
Constanza-Galdomez and Pesquera-Puerto were part of the Carlington Locos Salvatrucha (CALS) clique, while Valenzuela-Rodriguez belonged to the Huntington Criminales Locos Salvatrucha (HCLS) clique.
Constanza-Galdomez and Valenzuela-Rodriguez were each convicted of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and two counts of murder in aid of racketeering. Pesquera-Puerto was convicted of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and one count of murder in aid of racketeering. All three face mandatory life sentences.
The case was investigated by the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, the Baltimore County Police Department, the Baltimore City Police Department, and the U.S. Marshals Service. It was prosecuted by the Justice Department’s Violent Crime and Racketeering Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, with assistance from the Baltimore City and Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Offices.
This prosecution was part of Operation Take Back America, a Department of Justice initiative aimed at dismantling transnational criminal organizations and reducing violent crime.
Anyone with information about MS-13 is encouraged to contact the FBI at 1-866-STP-MS13 (1-866-787-6713) or Homeland Security Investigations at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE.
