Nocturno: The MS-13 Leader Sentenced to 1,335 Years
Imagine a judge handing down a prison sentence longer than recorded human history.
In December 2025, Marvin Abel Hernández Palacios — better known as Nocturno de Teclas — received 1,335 years behind bars as part of a massive trial that convicted 248 members of MS-13’s Teclas Locos Salvatruchos clique. The charges spanned more than eight years of terror in El Salvador’s La Libertad department: dozens of aggravated murders, enforced disappearances, femicides (including the killing of a young soccer player), and a vast extortion network that strangled local communities.
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