The leader of MS-13 in the American coast held a cache of weapons in the luxury suburb of Virginia where he had lived.
Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, 24, is mentioned as the migrant without papers who reportedly led the branch of the cruelty of the east coast.
The FBI found AA -Totaal of four guns, ammunition and suppressors in his room, as reported by Fox News.
Villatoro Santos was arrested in Dale City, a community for the suburb of half an hour outside Washington, DC, asked on Thursday, the American attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday.
Bondi praised the arrest in the early morning as a big win in the attempt by the Trump government to combat a gang that is known for brutal violence and extortion.
Villatoro Santos was taken according to judicial articles in Noord -Virginia in Noord -Virginia on an excellent administrative immigration warrant.
He was accused of illegal possession of weapons after agents had found several firearms while searching for his house. Bondi said he lived illegally in the US.
According to the police, the alleged MS-13 leader Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos had a cache with weapons in his apartment in Virginia
The FBI says they have found a total of four guns, ammunition and suppressors in his room
Attorney General Pam Bondi (photo) and FBI director Kash Patel supervised the operation
No lawyer was mentioned for him in court. Phone numbers for family members were not immediately found in public registers.
Bondi said that the suspect was 'very dangerous' and was recruited by MS-13 when he was 'very young' before he sustained the ranks.
The Task Force has worked together for the past four weeks, according to Virginia Gouverneur Glenn Youngkin.
He said that many of his voters would be surprised to hear that the alleged gangster had lived in the Leafy Woodbridge community.
“They live here and they live throughout the country,” Youngkin said about MS-13 and Venezuelan prison gangs the Aragua.
The administration promoted the arrest as part of its efforts to fulfill campaign injuries to destroy illegal immigration and eliminate gangs. MS-13 Bende, or Mara Salvatrucha, was one of the eight Latin American criminal organizations that declared Trump foreign terrorist organizations last month.
“We want to make our streets safer,” Bondi told reporters.
MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, was one of the eight Latin American criminal organizations declared foreign terrorist organizations last month
'We want to make our schools safer. We want to make your neighborhoods safer. This man lived in a neighborhood around you, no longer. '
In the White House, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, stating the arrest, called it 'a good day for our country'.
In the past decade, the US Department of Justice has intensified its focus on MS-13, which originated as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles, but grew into a transnational gang based in El Salvador.
It has members in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico and thousands of members in the US with countless branches, or 'cliques'.
