Brigido Josue Gonzales Sales, 22, was sentenced to 12 years for attacking a victim with a machete, as well as involvement in a gang beatdown and a nonfatal shooting, all in San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO — A 22-year-old MS-13 member was sentenced this month to 12 years in federal prison for an attempted murder involving a machete, as well as other gang-related assaults, court records show.
Gonzales Sales, who went by the nicknames “Inocente” and “Kilo,” was indicted in a 2020 move that targeted 17 members of an MS-13 subset known as the 20th Street Clique. A new indictment, filed in 2021, linked the gang toGonzales Sales was jumped into the gang in 2020, but started associating with it two years earlier.
The 12-year prison term was agreed upon by both the prosecution and defense. In a letter to the court, Gonzales Sales says he regrets his crimes and is coming to terms with how his incarceration will affect his young daughter.
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