Multiple Criminal Migrants Arrested by Border Patrol in RGV

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector agents arrested three gang members and one sex offender, all from El Salvador.

On Dec. 8, McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents encountered a national of El Salvador, whose record checks revealed he is a Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member. The 34-year-old Salvadoran was previously sentenced by a Georgia court to 18 months' incarceration for conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 2011. He was also sentenced to 46 months confinement for immigration-related offenses and subsequently removed from the United States.

That evening, MCS agents conducting processing duties identified a Salvadoran national whose record checks revealed his affiliation to the Sureño gang. In 2008, he was sentenced to six months confinement for inflicting corporal injury on a spouse/cohabitant in California. Three years later, he was arrested again and sentenced to two years incarceration for the same charge, in addition to three years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon that causes great bodily injury.

On Dec. 9, MCS agents apprehended a group of five migrants near Hidalgo. Record checks on a Salvadoran national revealed he was charged in El Salvador with sexual assault of a minor in 2013. Later that evening, agents encountered another MS-13, who had been sentenced to 185 days incarceration, in 2019, for being in the U.S. after being previously deported.

Within a week's span, RGV agents have encountered nine significant arrests throughout the Rio Grande Valley.

All subjects were processed accordingly.

The public is encouraged to take a stand against crime in their communities and report suspicious activity at 800-863-9382