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King County filed charges against 6 people for the blockade which trapped motorists and emergency vehicles for over 5 hours. Two Seattle public school teachers and an Antifa militant with ties to the MS-13 gang were among those charged for shutting down the Interstate 5 freeway in January as part of an anti-Israel demonstration. On Friday, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office (KCPAO) filed misdemeanor charges against six people in connection with the January 6 blockade, during which hundreds of anti-Israel activists flooded the northbound lanes of the freeway and trapped thousands of motorists and emergency vehicles for over 5...

A pair of illegal aliens, considered “got-aways” after they successfully crossed the nation’s borders illegally and who are wanted for crimes such as murder, torture, and kidnapping, were found living in the United States. Angel Anibal Alvarado Benitez, a 75-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, was deported from the United States this month after having been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in June of last year. Alvarado Benitez is wanted in El Salvador for his role in so-called “death-squad killings” during the country’s civil war. Authorities allege that Alvarado Benitez was involved in the kidnapping, torture, and...

After four years on the run, a senior leader of MS-13 – one of the largest transnational criminal organizations – was captured this month in Southern California on terrorism charges, court documents say. Freddy Ivan Jandres-Parada was accused by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York in December 2020 of being a member of MS-13’s board of directors, known as the Ranfla Nacional, along with a dozen other MS-13 members, according to his indictment. Federal authorities have been searching for him since, offering a reward for his capture on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Jandres-Parada was arrested on...

A suspected member of the notorious MS-13 street gang is accused of sex trafficking a 17-year-old migrant girl he recruited out of a Queens shelter — while still on the lam for allegedly fondling a 9-year-old girl years earlier. Alfredo Morocho, 37, who was also hit with a bail jumping charge for skipping out on the 2018 child molestation case, is finally being held on Rikers Island without bail, according to officials and court records. He is now charged with two counts of sex trafficking of a child, five counts of promoting prostitution and two counts of patronizing a person...

Former New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly, the department’s longest-serving commissioner, cautioned on Sunday that New York City’s quality of life “has really deteriorated.” Migrant crime is a major reason.Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang and El Salvador’s feared MS-13 — what former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker calls “prison-spawned gangs” — are threatening to take over American cities. They bring “mindless knuckle-dragging violence,” warns Swecker. They’re the “most dangerous gangs on the planet.”Swecker speculates that countries are emptying their prisons deliberately. Gang leaders setting up crime rings in the U.S. “come out of the muck and the...

Welcome to Joe Biden’s America…where kids can’t play in a neighborhood park without tripping over human body parts. A cadaver dog working with local police has located a woman’s head and several body parts in a Long Island, NY, park. A little girl playing in the park reportedly discovered the body parts. Colin Rugg tweeted about the incident. “Open borders have consequences,” he said. Just hours earlier, police found two… pic.twitter.com/2kVGrCdM2s — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 1, 2024 Police are saying the Salvadorian MS-13 gang may have been involved. NY news is reporting on the limbs and head discovered next...

A brutal Venezuelan gang that has used the border crisis to set up in New York could join forces with the feared MS-13, a senior FBI agent has told The Post. Tren de Aragua, which law enforcement is warning is rapidly expanding its criminal empire with a spate of brazen phone robberies in the five boroughs, is a priority for the FBI, agent John Morales said. Morales, the special agent in charge of the El Paso division in Texas, said the agency is closely monitoring Tren de Aragua’s growth and is concerned about it forming alliances with existing networks.

The family of 20-year-old autistic Kayla Hamilton, raped and murdered by one of Traitor Joe Biden’s illegal-alien invaders, will sue the administration for $100 million, the mother of the victim and her attorney announced. The murderer was a MS-13 gang member who crossed the border illegally and whom Biden released.Tammy Nobles and attorney Brian Claypool announced the forthcoming lawsuit this week. Nobles and other parents testified before the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee this week as part of the impeachment probe of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.In May, the House Judiciary Committee released a damning report, based on the illegal’s...

Arizona rancher says border crisis is 'still outrageous' as illegal migrant crossings surge ... A fifth-generation Arizona rancher said an influx of illegal migrants crossing his land in recent years has increased his fear that terrorists are successfully sneaking into America. ... The ongoing crisis at the southern border is breaking records as illegal migrant entries skyrocket, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. The first week of December saw a record-setting 18,900 migrant apprehensions in Arizona's Tucson Sector alone, the section's Chief Border Patrol Agent John Modlin said. By comparison, that's about 2,000 more encounters than all of...

Defendant Was Influential Member of the Ranfla Nacional, MS-13’s Board of Directors that Directed Transnational Criminal Operations At the conclusion of a removal hearing, a federal court in Houston, Texas ordered Elmer Canales-Rivera, aka Crook de Hollywood, a high-ranking leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, aka MS-13, to be transferred in custody to the Eastern District of New York where he and 13 other high-ranking MS-13 leaders were indicted in December 2020 on terrorism offenses relating to their direction of the transnational criminal organization’s criminal activities in the United States, El Salvador, Mexico, and elsewhere over the past two decades. On...

The Justice Department will no longer seek the death penalty for two alleged MS-13 gang members accused of brutally killing several teenagers in Long Island, New York. In a letter to a federal judge, Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said Attorney General Merrick Garland directed prosecutors to withdraw notices of intention to seek the death penalty against brothers, Alexi Saenz and Jairo Saenz. "We write on behalf of the Government in the above-captioned matter, to provide an update to the Court with respect to the status of the death penalty deauthorization requests of...

The alleged leader of an MS-13 clique in New York City “was the one signing the death warrants” for the ruthless gang — including ordering up the slaying of a 16-year-old boy found nearly decapitated in a Queens park, federal prosecutors said Monday in closing arguments at his murder trial. Melvi Amador-Rios, 32, the head of the Centrales Locos Salvatruchas clique of MS-13, was allegedly behind the gruesome stabbing death of Julio Vasquez in 2017, and also called for the murder of another teen who was left paralyzed by the attempt on his life, according to prosecutors. “They kill anyone...

MS-13 gang members commit savage crimes -- beheading their targets with machetes, hacking off their hands, burning them to death, dismembering them. Demonic acts. If you think these crimes won't happen where you live, keep reading. The gang's rule is "kill, rape, control." Members are required to kill. MS-13 brings terror to neighborhoods and even schoolyards. In the New York City area, MS-13 has been linked to more than 65 murders since 2009. President Joe Biden could care less. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is cracking down, jailing tens of thousands of suspected gang members and causing others to flee...

FREDERICK, Md. - Authorities say they have arrested and charged five people in the murder of a teenage boy whose remains were found in a Frederick County state park nearly two months after he was reported missing. Police arrested 21-year-old Alexis Alfredo Ayala Lopez, 23-year-old Jose Roberto Ramos Lopez, 29-year-old Ismael Lopez Lopez, 27-year-old Elmer Bladimir Reyes Reyes, and 20-year-old Ismael Ivan Rivera Canales in connection with the death of 15-year-old Limber Lopez Funez. All five are members of the violent gang MS-13, police said, and they have each been charged with first-degree murder. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against an MS-13 gang member who had recently been released from prison on parole, charged with murdering an Uber Eats driver in a case that police have called “demonic.”

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) entered into public record the previously undisclosed name of a 17-year-old illegal alien murder suspect while she was admonishing House Republicans Tuesday during a congressional hearing for revealing details of the case. Jayapal, ranking member on the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, appeared to have accidentally exposed the name, which appeared in the subject line of an email from Health and Human Services (HHS) that she made public during the hearing.

Pete Santilli joins The Alex Jones Show to break down intel by federal sources claiming two leading cartels have joined forces to wage a terror campaign on U.S. soil to serve as the pretext for the Biden regime to stay the lifting of Title 42 and come after the American people’s guns.(Video at link) Also available here: https://banned.video/watch?id=64585541c97967094378983b

On July 27, 2022, 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton from Aberdeen, Maryland was raped and strangled to death in her bed, according to WMAR Baltimore. Investigators learned that Hamilton was autistic and that she had recently moved to the area with her boyfriend. DNA evidence collected at the scene led investigators to a 17-year-old boy from El Salvador who entered the United States last March as an “unaccompanied minor.” The suspect, whose name has not been revealed, is listed in El Salvador as a member of Malva Salvatrucha, which is MS-13, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to Fox 6 Now. Now,...

A gang task force group in northern Virginia that targeted MS-13, the largest gang in the area, was shuttered at the start of the year, leaving a potentially dangerous void in its absence. The Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force’s most recent executive director, Jay Lanham, told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that the 20-year task force had been suddenly disbanded Jan. 1, a dissolution he blamed on anti-police sentiment. “The task force dissolved as of January 1,” Lanham wrote in an email. “Certainly I'm disappointed, but I also understand the challenges facing law enforcement these days, especially with staffing....

Santa Cruz County, Sheriff David Hathaway told FOX 10 Phoenix he’ll arrest anyone who tries to place them in the county, which he referred to as "illegal dumping."