A criminal president of MS- 13 did be , hauled back to New York , to face terrorism costs after his imprisonment in Texas over the weekend, according to federal prosecutors.
Cesar Humberto Lopez- Larios, 45, oversaw , the bloodthirsty gang ‘s , increase in El Salvador and the U. S. starting in 2002, and sat in MS- 13’s inside circle, which ran defense- style training camps and forced murders, assaults, kidnapping, drug dealing, extortion and various crimes, the feds say.
Lopez- Larios spent three years on the run before being detained on June 9 at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. He’ll show up in a Long Island national courthouse at a later time.
He’s the fourth of 14 MS- 13 officials to get arrested on a , 2020 indictment , alleging violence and narco- terrorism plot. The authorities have indicted a full 27 members of the group’s leadership construction in , two separate situations.
According to U.S. Attorney Breon Peace,” the imprisonment of Lopez-Larios, who is one of the most top officials of MS-13 in the world, is a significant accomplishment for law enforcement and a major step in the unraveling of this international legal enterprise.”
The accused will soon be subject to a hearing in a provincial court in Long Island, where MS-13 has effected so much body and transformed towns into war zones in response to his orders.
MS- 13 gained its footing in Los Angeles among the state’s community of El Salvadoran refugees, and it gained strength in the wake of the U.S. deporting hundreds of Salvadorans in the early 1990s.
The gang’s members were linked to dozens of , murders , in , Long Island , and Queens in the mid 2010s, often using machetes to chop up their victims, leading to , a series of crackdowns , that netted scores of suspects in recent years.
Lopez-Larios is accused of being a member of MS-13’s elite, who allegedly dubbed themselves the” Twelve Apostles of the Devil” while imprisoned in El Salvador in 2002. The gang established military- style training camps for its members and got weapons like rifles, handguns, grenades, improvised explosive devices and rocket launchers, the feds said.
He also helped form the gang’s Ranfla Nacional, which used acts of public violence to extort benefits out of El Salvador’s government, brokered drug and weapons deals with Mexican cartels, engaged in human trafficking and smuggling, and directed the gang’s activities in the U. S., the feds allege.
If found guilty, Lopez could receive a lifetime prison term.
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