United States v. Barrera

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WILLIAM F. KUNTZ, II, District Judge.

Jose Barrera (“Defendant” or “Barrera”) is charged with six counts in a seventeen-count indictment (the “Indictment”), which alleges various crimes on the part of several members of the street gang La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13 (“MS-13”). Currently pending before the Court are several of Defendant’s pre-trial motions. First, Defendant moves to suppress evidence procured through the use of a wiretap on the phone of an alleged co-conspirator. Second, Defendant moves for an evidentiary hearing pursuant to Franks v. Delaware to…