By BETHAN SEXTON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 08:35 EDT, 1 April 2025 | Updated: 09:11 EDT, 1 April 2025 The mother of a suspected MS-13 gang leader claimed she had no idea about her son’s alleged antics following his dramatic arrest at her upscale Virginia home. The mom, who refused to emerge from behind her front door,
Two young elders from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were shocked to hear that a major FBI bust went down in the Virginia suburb where they were preaching. The two teenagers from the Salt Lake City area were out on a mission trip in Woodbridge, Virginia, to minister to those who
By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, CHIEF U.S. REPORTER Published: 15:49 EDT, 27 March 2025 | Updated: 23:22 EDT, 27 March 2025 The leader of MS-13 in the US coast was keeping a cache of weapons in the upscale Virginia suburb where he had been living. Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, 24, has been named as the undocumented
By BETHAN SEXTON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 08:01 EDT, 27 March 2025 | Updated: 08:13 EDT, 27 March 2025 An MS-13 kingpin has been arrested in Virginia, the Trump administration revealed. The 24-year-old suspect was apprehended in Woodbridge, south of Washington, D.C on Thursday, Fox reports. The authorities have not released his name, but said he is
By STEPHEN M. LEPORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 18:44 EDT, 18 March 2025 | Updated: 19:47 EDT, 18 March 2025 Kash Patel celebrated the capture of a senior leader of the notorious MS-13 gang and one of the FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.’ Francisco Javier Román Bardales, an alleged gang leader from El Salvador, was apprehended by
The Trump administration designated several gangs and cartels, such as Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and the Sinaloa Cartel, as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a public notice set to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday, that he had concluded there is a “sufficient factual basis” under section
The notorious mega-prison which ended years of brutal gang rule in El Salvador and stripped thousands of the most violent criminals of of their rights has been operating for two years this week. CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) is a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to lock
An unsuspecting Maryland high school allowed a MS-13 gang member at the center of a murder investigation to enroll after authorities failed to alert the administration of the gang member’s suspect status. Walter Martinez, an MS-13 gang member who at 16-years-old was the primary suspect in the July 2022 murder of Kayla Hamilton, enrolled in