Source: United States Department of Justice
Two members of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the “MS-13,” will be arraigned today in federal court in Central Islip on an indictment charging them with racketeering conspiracy and related firearms and narcotics offenses in connection with a conspiracy to kill rival gang members, the June 28, 2026 murder of Michael David Grajeda Suazo, and a narcotics trafficking conspiracy (the Indictment). Isaac Eliseo Lopez Alvarez, also known as “Flaco” and “Kofla” (Lopez Alvarez) and Denis Alexander Gonzalez Sorto, also known as “Demon,” “Demon Boy” and “DM” (Gonzalez Sorto), are both members of the Hempstead Locos Salvatruchas (Hempstead) clique of the MS-13. The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon at the federal courthouse in Central Islip. The indictment was unsealed on October 20, 2026. The defendants were in state custody on murder charges.