In a major federal operation, one of the top MS-13 leaders on the East Coast was arrested without incident in Woodbridge, Virginia. The 24-year-old suspect, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was captured after weeks of surveillance by FBI, DOJ, and state police, with top officials monitoring the raid in real time.
The arrest is seen as a major blow to the violent gang’s leadership and part of a broader Trump-era crackdown on transnational crime. Authorities say more arrests are coming as law enforcement targets gang leaders who believed they were untouchable.
