A notorious MS-13 gang leader who is one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives was arrested at the California-Mexico border earlier this month after more than three years on the run, according to court records.
Freddy Ivan Jandres Parada has been on the run since December 2020, when the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York indicted him and more than a dozen other members of MS-13’s “board” on terrorism charges. Ta.
Jandres Parada was arrested by FBI agents in San Diego on March 7, officials said. He waived his right to bail the next day. CNN reported.
The 48-year-old Salvadoran national, known by the nickname “Lucky De Park View,” is being held at a federal prison in San Diego, according to inmate records, pending transfer to a federal detention center in New York to await trial. During the .
Jandres Parada was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list and a $10,000 reward was being offered for information leading to his arrest.
“He is said to be one of the top MS-13 leaders worldwide,” the FBI wrote on its website. “Jandres Parada has been charged with numerous acts of violence against civilians, law enforcement, and rival gang members, as well as several terrorist crimes for allegedly directing drug distribution and extortion schemes around the world. .”
Two other members of the ruthless transnational gang’s governing body, known in Spanish as Ranfra Nacional, remain at large, Cesar Humberto López-Larios and Hugo Armando Quinteros-Mineros.
According to reports, all 14 suspected M3-13 members, 11 of whom have been in detention for many years, most of them in El Salvador, are accused of providing material support to terrorists, conspiring to conceal them, and crossing the border. He is facing federal charges of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism. Indictment.
Federal prosecutors allege the group “operated a military-style training camp.” He acquired weapons, handguns, rifles, grenades, improvised explosive devices, and rocket launchers, and also “directed acts of violence and murder in El Salvador, the United States, and elsewhere.”
According to a 31-page federal indictment, Ranfra Nacional was formed in an El Salvadoran prison in 2002 and grew out of a hierarchical control organization of gangs known as the Twelve Apostles of the Devil.
According to the indictment, a criminal organization known as the “Board of Directors” controls the gang’s operations around the world and issues “green lights” or execution orders for the killing of rivals, disloyal gang members, and law enforcement officers.
MS-13, also known as “La Mala Salvatrucha,” is an offshoot of a Los Angeles street gang formed by Central American immigrants in the 1980s, and is America’s most violent criminal gang with a large number of brutal machetes attached. It has spread to one of the tissues. Massacres involving Long Island.
In 2017, at least 12 suspected MS-13 members were indicted in connection with seven murders, including the bloodthirsty murder and dismemberment of three Brentwood High School students in 2016.
