A member of the MS-13 gang suspicado with a violent criminal history has been arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, after a year in the race, police said.
According to Metro Nashville (MNPD) Police Department, Leonel Vargas Jr., 24, was arrested Wednesday afternoon.
Davidson County Prison records show that he has been accused of aggravated aggression for serious crime due to strangulation, theft aggravated by serious crimes, probation rape, domestic aggression of bad guys and two charges of property robbery.
Mugshot or Leonel Vargas Jr. (Nashville Metro Police Department)
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It is not eligible for Bond.
MNPD said that its detectives from the Specialized Research Division (SID) and the federal agents of the alcohol tobacco, firearms and explosives (ATF), which have been investigating the Vargas Association with the Ultra Violent Salvadoran Man.
ATF confirmed Fox News Digital that his research on MS-13 ties of Vargas is ongoing.
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Vargas has a long statement of criminal records in 2019.
In that year, he was accused of an assault aggravated by strangulation, two domestic assault charges result in body injuries and a domestic assault charge with fear of body injuries. He was sentenced to probation for those crimes.
In 2022, he violated his probation and was sentenced to one year in prison and a year of supervised liberation. In the same year, a case of 2021 for the serious crime that evades the trial for motor vehicles and the reckless danger, Ropered was.
A member of the MS-13 gestures at the Quezalteque Police Station on May 20, 2013 in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Giles Clarke/Getty images)
He was convicted of those charges in 2023 and was sentenced to two years of supervised release.
Last year, he was accused of a serious crime of aggravated assault, theft and theft, and was fleeing the police until he was arrested on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, announced a reward of $ 5 million to obtain information that led to the sentence of the MS-13 leader in Honduras, Yulan Adonay Archana Carías.
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In the United States, the gang has recently been in the news after an alleged member, Illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego GarcíaHe was deported to El Salvador.
He was suspended from being involved in trafficking in labor/people, according to a National Security Research Report of 2022 (HSI) obtained by Fox News.