Dany Fredy Ramos-Mejía

Dany Fredy Ramos-Mejía, known in later federal records as “Cisco de Teclas” and in earlier records through variants including “Sisco,” “Cisco” and “Grompie,” is one of the most historically useful MS-13 figures in the El Salvador cluster. Unlike many defendants whose public federal record begins with the 2022 Ranfla II indictment, Ramos-Mejía appears in U.S. racketeering litigation dating back to 2007. That gives the archive a rare opportunity to follow one leadership figure across more than fifteen years of documented cases.

In June 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a federal racketeering indictment in Maryland against Ramos-Mejía, Saúl Antonio Turcios Ángel and Rigoberto del Tránsito Mejía Regaldo. Prosecutors alleged that the defendants participated in an MS-13 enterprise spanning the United States and El Salvador and involving murder, robbery, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. The government further alleged that leaders incarcerated in El Salvador communicated with gang members in the United States and directed criminal activity across borders. These were allegations in the indictment and should be presented as such.

That early case is significant because it demonstrates that the transnational command problem associated with MS-13 did not suddenly emerge in the 2020s. U.S. prosecutors were already describing prison-based communications from El Salvador to American cliques in the mid-2000s. The 2007 case therefore deserves its own canonical case page, connected both to Ramos-Mejía and to Saúl Turcios, who is already present in the El Salvador package.

Ramos-Mejía reappears in the Ranfla II indictment more than a decade later. Federal prosecutors describe him there as a long-time high-ranking MS-13 member and a member of the Ranfla Nacional. The indictment alleges that he provided direction to MS-13 members in the United States, including encouraging violence, and that he participated in negotiations with Salvadoran government officials. Again, these are prosecution allegations rather than findings the archive should state as independently proven facts.

His alias “Cisco de Teclas” reinforces the Teclas node already created in earlier batches. The connection is particularly valuable because the 2007 Maryland case separately described communications involving the Teclas Locos Salvatruchos clique. This gives the Teclas branch unusual historical depth: it can connect early U.S.-El Salvador racketeering allegations to later senior-leadership prosecutions.

When Ranfla II was unsealed in February 2023, the Justice Department stated that Ramos-Mejía was believed to be in custody in El Salvador and that the United States would explore extradition options. That statement should be treated as a dated status snapshot.

Within the archive, Ramos-Mejía should link bidirectionally to MS-13, Teclas, Ranfla Nacional, the Ranfla II case and the 2007 Maryland racketeering case. He should also connect directly to Saúl Turcios through the older prosecution. These links create one of the strongest chronological chains in the package.

Ramos-Mejía’s profile is therefore more than another senior-leader biography. It demonstrates continuity between early transnational MS-13 prosecutions and the later terrorism and racketeering cases targeting the organization’s command structure. That makes him a key bridge between the historical and modern phases of the El Salvador graph.

This long time span also makes Ramos-Mejía useful for audit purposes: older federal allegations can be kept separate from later Ranfla II allegations while still remaining attached to one canonical identity. That prevents the site from accidentally merging different cases into a single undifferentiated narrative.

Documented network

RB ORG MS13 (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as member of or associated with, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

RB ORG RANFLA_NACIONAL (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as member of or associated with, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

RB ORG TECLAS_CLIQUE (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as member of or associated with, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

RB CASE US_V_AREVALO_CHAVEZ_RANFLA_II (case) is recorded in the canonical graph as defendant in, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

RB CASE US_V_DANY_FREDY_RAMOS_MEJIA_2007 (case) is recorded in the canonical graph as defendant in, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Status and record

The structured life-status field is unknown. This administrative field should change only when a reliable current source supports an update.

Source record

The current Master package attaches the following evidence sources to this profile: – Three of the Highest-Ranking MS-13 Leaders in the World Arrested on Terrorism and Racketeering Charges — U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, Tier 1. – United States v. Arevalo-Chavez et al. indictment (inline text) — U.S. District Court / U.S. Department of Justice, Tier 1. – Three Salvadoran Nationals Indicted on Racketeering Charges for Participation in Violent International Gang — U.S. Department of Justice, Tier 1.

Each source supports only the claims tied to it. Structured source references remain attached so later audits can trace timeline and relationship records back to evidence.

Evidence and editorial boundaries

For living subjects especially, legal claims and current status require dated sourcing. Future expansion should therefore come from stronger records or newly processed canonical entities rather than unsourced crime lore.