Mar 27, 2025 · In January, Jairo Saenz, 28, a high-ranking MS-13 leader nicknamed “Funny,” grinned in federal court as he was hit with a 60-year sentence for a series of seven horrific murders dating back to ...

Mar 27, 2025 · Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, and FBI Director Kash Patel, right, listen as Governor Glenn Youngkin speaks about a 24 year-old MS-13 gang leader who was arrested in an operation by the Virginia Homeland Security Task Force in Dale City, VA., on March 27, 2025, during a news conference at the Manassas FBI Field …

Apr 30, 2024 · A leader in the MS-13 street gang whose orders set off a wave of killings five years ago in northern Virginia has been sentenced to life in prison.

Mar 27, 2025 · Federal law enforcement officers captured an alleged “major leader” of the MS-13 gang Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said on social media. “Just captured a major leader of MS13 ...

Mar 27, 2025 · The FBI arrested a top-level member of the MS-13 gang in Virginia on Thursday. President Trump praised Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and others in his administration on social media for their work.

Mar 27, 2025 · Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed he is a Salvadorian national who was living in Virginia, “half an hour outside of Washington, D.C.” “I can now confirm that earlier this morning, law enforcement personnel arrested a top MS-13 leader in Virginia … Justice is coming,” FBI Director Kash Patel said on X.

Jan 31, 2025 · An MS-13 gang leader in Virginia will spend the rest of his life in prison for a string of murders, including a 19-year-old woman shot 16 times in the face after she disparaged the gang on social media.

Jan 30, 2025 · On March 11, 2021, Alas Candray and other MS-13 members and associates, surveilled S.A.T.L. in Fairfax County and waited for an opportunity to murder him. Alas Candray and his co-conspirators went to an apartment complex on Winterthur Court in Reston where Alas Candray fatally shot S.A.T.L.

Jun 18, 2024 · In June 2019, three MS-13 members, including Cristian Arevalo Arias and Carlos Turcios Villatoro, lured Victim 1 and Victim 2 to a wooded area and murdered them by shooting and stabbing the victims. The MS-13 members believed Victim 1 belonged to a rival gang, and then murdered Victim 2 to avoid leaving any witnesses to Victim 1’s murder.

Jan 30, 2025 · FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — A member of the MS-13 gang was sentenced Thursday to six concurrent life prison sentences along with additional terms of years for killing at least six people around Virginia and Massachusetts.