Attorney General Pam Bondi said the alleged Top MS-13 Bendel member That early on Thursday morning in Virginia was arrested, was probably in the United States for more than ten years.
Bondi made the revelation in an interview about “The Ingraham -Hoek“After 24-year-old Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, federal agents were taken in custody.
“We believe that he was recruited in high school – in high school!” The former Attorney General of Florida said.
“He lived here illegally with friends and family, and the Biden administration did absolutely nothing to deport these people. You know, as the president says, we didn’t need new laws, we needed a new president to resolve this.”
The alleged thorough leader of MS-13 was arrested on Thursday, March 27, 2025 in Virginia.
Santos was taken into custody on an excellent order and was accused of illegal possession of weapons in a search of his house, the Associated Press reported.
Bondi told FOX News-gasheer Laura Ingraham that a task force consisting of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Marshals and others, worked hand in hand with American immigration and customs enforcement, sharing data to catch Santos.
“He was One of the best leadersAnd he lived for half an hour from where we are now and live among us, “she said.” Today we took one of the worst of the worst streets. Americans are safer because of Donald Trump. “
Prisoners remain in a cell in the mega prison of the terrorism restriction (Cecot), where hundreds of members of the MS-13 and 18 street gangs are held, in Tecoluca, El Salvador on January 27, 2025
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin praised the state and local agencies during a press conference alongside FBI director Kash Patel for working on “eradicating the existing drug and terrorist networks”.
MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, was designated As a foreign terrorist organization by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in February, together with Tren the Aragua and the Sinaloa cartel.
The arrest of Santos comes as part of the Trump government’s efforts to combat illegal immigration and to send criminal migrants back to their country of origin.
Venezuelan migrants walk on a flight after their arrival after being deported from the United States, in Caracas, Venezuela, 24 March 2025. (Reuters/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)
The White House is involved in a legal battle after a federal judge has temporarily stopped flights from Verdende Venezuelan gang member terrorists to El Salvador.
Doj insists that El Salvador Deportation Flights has not violated the judicial order
Bondi said that the Ministry of Justice will try to deport Santos, who, according to her, is one of the top three leaders of MS-13, to the terrorism limitation center, a megapison in El Salvador.
Prison officials are a guard in a pavilion in the mega prison (Cecot) in the terrorism control center (Cecot), where hundreds of members of the MS-13 and 18 street gangs are held, in Tecoluca, El Salvador on January 27, 2025.
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“Let’s send him home. He belongs,” she told Ingraham. “You know, he hears in that El Salvador prison, and that’s where he should go, but we’re going to – you’re going to see much more charges on him.”
