Juan Antonio Martínez-Abrego

Juan Antonio Martínez-Abrego, known as “Mary Jane de Hollywood,” is a senior MS-13 figure charged in the federal Ranfla II prosecution in the Eastern District of New York. His record is particularly important for the archive because federal filings connect him to several different layers of the organization at once: the Hollywood clique, the Ranfla en las Calles, the Mexico Program and efforts to organize MS-13 operations in the United States.

The 2022 indictment alleges that Martínez-Abrego was a member of MS-13, a member of the Mexico Program and a member of the Ranfla en las Calles. Prosecutors further allege that he participated in efforts to obtain firearms for retaliation against the government of El Salvador. According to the charging document, the Ranfla Nacional sent him first to Mexico and then to the United States to help organize MS-13 operations. These are allegations in a criminal case and the archive should continue to distinguish them clearly from findings established by a conviction or guilty plea.

His alias makes the Hollywood connection explicit. The Hollywood clique is already one of the strongest subgraphs in the El Salvador package because Borromeo Enrique Henríquez, Elmer Canales-Rivera and José Wilfredo Ayala-Alcántara are also tied to Hollywood in federal sources. Martínez-Abrego adds a different pathway: instead of linking Hollywood only to the Ranfla Nacional, his record links the clique to the Ranfla en las Calles and to the Mexico Program. That makes the clique useful for showing how local identity could overlap with broader command responsibilities.

The Mexico Program is another major part of his profile. Federal prosecutors have described that program as an effort by senior MS-13 leaders to preserve and expand the gang’s operations in Mexico while building ties useful for weapons, narcotics, smuggling and other criminal activity. The indictment specifically alleges that Martínez-Abrego was sent to Mexico by the Ranfla Nacional, then onward to the United States. That movement gives his page a strong transnational narrative without requiring speculation beyond the filing.

When the Ranfla II indictment was unsealed in February 2023, Martínez-Abrego was publicly listed as a fugitive. Justice Department updates later in 2023 continued to list him among the defendants sought by U.S. authorities. Because fugitive status can change over time, the archive should treat those notices as date-stamped status records rather than permanent biography fields. The stable canonical facts are his identity, aliases, indictment and source-supported organizational relationships.

The Ranfla II case charged thirteen alleged senior MS-13 leaders with racketeering conspiracy, terrorism-related offenses and narco-terrorism conspiracy. Four defendants also faced an alien-smuggling conspiracy count resulting in death. Prosecutors described the defendants as part of a command structure spanning the Ranfla Nacional, Ranfla en las Calles and Ranfla en los Penales and operating across El Salvador, Mexico, the United States and elsewhere.

Within the archive, Martínez-Abrego should link bidirectionally to MS-13, Hollywood, Ranfla en las Calles, the Mexico Program and the Ranfla II case. His page should also link laterally to other Hollywood figures and to Mexico Program figures already in the graph. This creates several reader routes through the network rather than reducing him to one federal charge.

His profile is therefore valuable less for public notoriety than for connectivity. Martínez-Abrego helps connect the historical Hollywood clique to later transnational leadership structures and provides another documented bridge between El Salvador, Mexico and the United States.