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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Monday arrested three men living above the Big Apple Restaurant & Lounge on Route 9 on charges of illegal immigration, and two of them were found to be "associated with the MS13 gang," ICE spokesman Harold Ort said. The criminal gang is known formally as Mara Salvatrucha, and its members have been involved with contract killings, human trafficking, home invasions, assaults and other crimes. It typically has operated in the Southwest and on the West Coast.Two El Salvador nationals arrested in Saratoga Springs are members of the violent international gang MS13, and police are investigating whether a Salvadoran from Corinth who is charged in the kidnapping of a 24-year-old woman is part of the group, authorities said Wednesday.Two of the men who were arrested worked at the restaurant. Noting that most of the gang's members are Salvadorans, Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III said they ''have a r...

Jose Franciso Cardoza Quinteros told Canadian officials that he had killed at least four people, thrown grenades into crowds of rivals and been present at the beheading of a woman by a member of his gang, also known as MS-13.Quinteros, 30, is awaiting a pre-removal risk assessment, which could take months, before it is determined if and when he will be sent back to his Central American home.The federal government wants him locked up as a danger to the public and argued before the Federal Court of Canada on Tuesday that Immigration and Refugee Board member Otto Nupponen erred when he released Quinteros on a $1,000 bond last September.Judge Dolores Hansen reserved her decision after a special sitting in downtown Vancouver.Quinteros has already had three secret refugee board hearings since arriving in B.C. in a rental vehicle driven by his sister, Mery Manzano, with her two daughters inside.The Surrey woman first claimed Quinteros was a stranger who she met at a gas station where he asked...