A Montgomery County man was sentenced Friday to 35 years in federal prison for conspiracy for his involvement with the MS-13 gang and a Gaithersburg murder, prosecutors announced.
Oscar Ernesto Delgado-Perez, 26, of Gaithersburg, was sentenced for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise.
Delgado-Perez admitted to planning and conspiring to murder a rival gang member in June 2016. A female co-conspirator lured the victim to the woods at Malcolm King Park in Gaithersburg, where Delgado-Perez and other gang members stabbed him 153 times, prosecutors said.
Delgado-Perez was a member of the “Sailors” clique of the gang, and admitted in his plea agreement to participating in extortion and murder, prosecutors said in their late Friday announcement.
“The most foundational tenets of MS-13 rest on unadulterated evil,” said Cardell T. Morant, a special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Baltimore office. “Our investigators will not stand for this or any other transnational criminal organization living and operating here without detection and, ultimately, consequence.”
MS-13 members Kevin Henrique-Perez, 24, of Washington Grove, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in late March. Juan Carlos Espinal-Rapalo, 21, and Daniel Adonai Ramos-Romero, 22, both of Gaithersburg, are detained awaiting sentencing.
