The United States captures Salvadoran assumed leader of Mara Salvatrucha in Virginia

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March 27, 2025March 27, 2025By Mario Vásquez
The United States captures Salvadoran assumed leader of Mara Salvatrucha in Virginia

A great police operation, in which Bondi and the director of the FBI, Kash Patel participated, stopped him in the vicinity of Woodbridge, Virginia, although The identity of the detainee has not been revealed at the moment.

Bondi informed at a press conference that the operation has been prepared for days, probably weeks. He added that they captured a high leader of the MS-13. The leader of the east coast, one of the top 3 of the country, living half an hour from Washington. It’s a illegal of El Salvadorbut it will not continue in the country much longer, he added.

“For different reasons We cannot identify it now by namebut he was one of the highest members, in the top Three from all over the country, head of the east coast. Responsible for crimes Very violent associated with the MS-13. It was very dangerous“, Added Bondi, who was accompanied by the governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin.

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Bondi said the operation was executed without altercationsin coordination with authorities of the State of Virginia, the FBI, the Department of National Security and other agencies, in an organized way and as a great teamwork.

The attorney general added that the detainee is a “terrorist”, Since criminal organizations such as MS-13 or the Aragua train They have been declared terrorist organizations by the United States.

Patel said that in recent months they have arrested 342 criminals in Virginia, as a result of this most intense work to stop alleged crime bands Organized with origins abroad.

The FBI director did not want to detail how long the detainee took residing illegally in the United Stateswhile Bondi assured that these people, the result of police investigations and operations, have been allowed to wander with freedom by the US.

The US president, Donald Trump, congratulated Bondi in the Truth Network, to Patel, to the so -called “Tsar of the Border”, Tom Homan, and the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, who on Wednesday visited the penitentiary center of El Salvador, where some of the detainees in these operations have arrived, thanks to an agreement with the government of Nayib Bukele.

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