A female gangbanger and illegal immigrant who cased businesses and cleaned weapons used in heists carried out by a Maryland MS-13 robbery crew was sentenced Thursday to 95 years in prison on robbery and gang charges, The Washington Post reported.
"You are a scary human being," Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge John Maloney told 20-year-old Josselin Ramirez, the Post reported.
She had faced a total 105 years in prison on six charges against her.
During her trial, jurors watched a video of Ramirez speaking to detectives about her earlier gang life in El Salvador and about how she had lured a policeman into an MS-13 ambush, coldly telling them, "He was shot in the head," the Post reported.
But, according to the Post, Ramirez abruptly halted her trial June 28 to announce she was guilty of all charges — a plea that eliminated the chance prosecutors might play an audio recording of a telephone call she made from jail to her mother.
"She indicated that she was going to be found guilty," Assistant State's Attorney Patrick Mays said at the time of Ramirez's plea, describing the contents of the recording. "And she was going to jail for quite some time, that there were photographs."
The photos, Mays said during the plea, showed Ramirez holding guns, including one weapon that was used in a robbery. Other photos showed Ramirez displaying MS-13 hand signs, prosecutors said, the Post reported.
Ramirez joined MS-13 as a teenager, according to evidence at her trial. "How old were you?" she was asked in Spanish during a police interview.
"I was 13," she replied, according to the evidence, the Post reported.
She admitted to helping MS-13 kill a policeman in El Salvador and helping kill a rival gang member there, trial evidence showed, the Post reported.
Ramirez's lawyer, Timothy Clarke, said she was drawn back into gang activity when an associate in the United States recruited her, and with whom she eventually had a child. He had argued she should be placed on parole and quickly deported.
Assistant State's Attorney Teresa Casafranca said, however, Ramirez "willingly embraced the violence that is MS-13," adding she never told police she was forced or coerced back into gang activity.
Maloney, the judge, said he was puzzled about why Ramirez would commit such "horrific crimes" if she had intended to leave that lifestyle behind.
"You embraced the lifestyle again," Maloney said. "It doesn't make sense to me, and I'm having trouble understanding. You need to be housed away so you can't harm others."
Ramirez is likely to eventually face deportation proceedings, the Post reported.
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