An aged chief of the ruthless MS-13 gang was detained in Long Island for his claimed responsibility in just about a heaps murders, the Justice Department introducedWednesday
Joel “Momia” Vargas-Escobar was the claimed chief of the “Parkview clique” of MS-13 working out of the Las Vegas location, authorities district attorneys acknowledged.
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The Department of Justice seal is seen all through a press convention on the DOJ office in Washington, May 16, 2023. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Vargas-Escobar was deported to El Salvador in 2018 but unlawfully reentered the nation and had truly gotten on the run for just about 4 years, the DOJ acknowledged.
An cost from the District of Nevada prices Vargas-Escobar, and numerous different claimed members of the “Parkview clique,” with devoting 11 murders over regarding a yr in Nevada andCalifornia The cost declares that MS-13 members kidnapped targets and drove them to distant locations within the hills and desert the place they had been harm and eradicated.
Prosecutors declare Vargas-Escobar instantly bought a minimal of two of the billed murders.
Attorney General Pam Bondi talks previous to President Donald Trump on the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. ( SWIMMING POOL)
“The American people are safer following the arrest of yet another MS-13 leader thanks to the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and Joint Task Force Vulcan,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi acknowledged in a declaration. “This terrorist entered our country illegally and is accused of orchestrating 11 murders — under President Trump’s leadership, we will not rest until this terrorist organization is completely dismantled and its members are behind bars.”
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