Alleged MS-13 gang member on FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list captured in Virginia
An alleged MS-13 gang member on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list was captured Friday, authorities said, after going on the run in connection with a brutal 2011 slaying in New Jersey.
Agents apprehended Walter Yovany Gomez without incident in Woodbridge, Virginia, said Tim Gallagher, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Newark Division.
#FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Walter Yovany Gomez was apprehended in Virginia this evening without incident: https://t.co/jzbFtMYhGHpic.twitter.com/bEAPzJyNUf
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"Tips all along had generated interest in the Washington, D.C., area and a tip from the general public placed him in northern Virginia," Gallagher said.
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He added that Gomez is expected to be extradited to Newark and face charges of murder and racketeering.
Gomez was a known member of the MS-13 gang from Honduras and entered the U.S. illegally, the FBI said. His name was added to the "Most Wanted List" in April and the bureau had offered a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to his arrest.
The FBI said Gomez is a suspected co-conspirator in the murder of a man who was found in a New Jersey apartment with his throat cut and stabbed 17 times in the back. The victim was suspected of socializing with a rival gang and was allegedly ordered to be killed by MS-13 leaders.
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During a rally in Huntington, West Virginia, earlier this month, President Donald Trump praised law enforcement and immigration officials for cracking down on gang members, particularly MS-13.
"We are taking the fight to the drug smugglers, human traffickers and the vile criminal cartels like MS-13 who are being thrown out of our country so quickly you can't even count," he said. "We are liberating American communities from these vicious, violent gangs."