A identified MS-13 gang member wished for years for homicide and terrorism in El Salvador has been busted residing illegally in New Jersey.
The arrest Friday of Johnathan Stanley Garcia-Vasquez in West New York ends a troubling saga stretching from June 2016, when he was stopped — then launched — whereas crossing the border illegally in Texas, the Newark workplace of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) introduced Monday.
The “identified member of the MS-13 legal group” is lastly awaiting deportation to El Salvador, the place he has been wished for six years on a warrant for aggravated murder and terrorism expenses, ICE stated of the “transnational legal.”
“The US shouldn’t be a secure haven for worldwide fugitives in search of to use our immigration legal guidelines to evade justice of their residence international locations,” stated John Tsoukaris, the Newark director for ICE Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO).
“Our officers’ diligence and dedication to public security allowed them to soundly apprehend this worldwide fugitive earlier than he might trigger hurt to the residents and residents of New Jersey.”
The gangster, who additionally goes by Johnathan Stanley Garcia-Garcia, was first stopped whereas crossing illegally into Hidalgo, Texas, in June 2016, ICE stated.
He was issued an order of expedited removing and detained by ICE till Jan. 27, 2017, when he posted bond and was launched.
A choose in San Miguel, El Salvador, issued an arrest warrant for him on Aug. 7, 2018, for aggravated murder and taking part in a terrorist group, ICE stated, with out detailing the crimes.
A US immigration choose ordered the gangster to be eliminated in absentia in October 2018 — however Garcia by no means surrendered.
He had evaded authorities for years till his arrest final week.
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