Border Patrol agents announced Wednesday they nabbed an MS-13 gang member traveling with the thousands of Central American migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US.
Jose Villalobos-Jobel, 29, was arrested Saturday evening near the Calexico Port of Entry by agents who suspected he’d made it into California illegally, US Customs and Border Protection said in a statement.
During questioning, Villalobos-Jobel told border patrol agents he was part of the notorious, bloodthirsty Mara Salvatrucha 13, or MS-13, gang and that he’d traveled with the caravan of migrants that have made their way from Central America to the Mexican border town of Tijuana.
The gangster will be sent back to his native Honduras, the statement said.
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