Members of Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, have “MS” tattoos, for example; 98 Main Street Mafia Crips have “98 M” tattoos, he said. Even though some gangs, such as MS-13, have ...

Yusel Quezada, 44, a Cuban body artist in Tampa, said he believes using a list of tattoos to identify or label someone as a member of a gang like Tren de Aragua can be a way to justify an unfair ...

Defense lawyers say some of the roughly 200 Venezuelan men the U.S. deported after accusing them of being gang members were targeted because of their everyday tattoos.

Body art becomes a socially acceptable pretext for ethnic and racial profiling. Thus, one of the main problems with identifying gang members by tattoos is not the potential for mistakes.

Walking into the Colur Tyme Tattoo Parlor is a lot like walking into a head shop. One wall is lined with gang monikers and symbols, the other with bongs for smoking marijuana and other drugs -- one ...

“He has various tattoos on his body related to MS-13. He is an active member,” García said. ... Certain tattoos associated with street gangs can get you stopped by police in El Salvador.

If you go to prison in Oregon as a juvenile, your record is typically wiped clean when you leave. But if you have tattoos ...

Tattoos are signals of membership in some Latin American gangs, with the facial tattoos of the El Salvadoran group MS-13 perhaps the best known. Experts, ... are often nothing more than body art.

Gang tattoos were once a vital currency in El Salvador, just a few years ago when it was known as the “murder capital of the world.” Some designs confirmed membership of MS-13 or 18th Street ...

A crown over a soccer ball. An eyeball that “looked cool.” Flowers. Those are some of the everyday tattoos that defense lawyers say helped lead to the sudden weekend deportation of roughly 200 ...