A presumed MS-13 gang participant with a fierce criminal background has actually been apprehended in Nashville, Tennessee, after a year on the run, cops claimed.
According to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), Leonel Vargas Jr., 24, was apprehended Wednesday mid-day.
Davidson County prison documents reveal that he has actually been billed with felony exacerbated attack by strangulation, felony exacerbated break-in, felony probation offense, violation residential attack and 2 matters of violation burglary of residential or commercial property.
Mugshot of Leonel Vargas Jr. (Metro Nashville Police Department)
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He is not qualified for bond.
MNPD claimed its Specialized Investigations Division (SID) investigators and government Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) representatives, that have actually been examining Vargas’ organization with the ultra-violent Salvadoran MS-13 gang, collaborated the security that brought about the apprehension.
ATF verified to Fox News Digital that their examination right into Vargas’ MS-13 connections is recurring.
risoners with MS-13 gang tattoos keep an eye out of their cell in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025. (Alex Brandon/Pool/ AFP by means of Getty Images)
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Vargas has a lengthy criminal background stemming back to 2019.
In that year, he was billed with exacerbated attack by strangulation, 2 matters of residential attack leading to physical injury and one matter of residential attack with anxiety of physical injury. He was punished to probation for those criminal activities.
In 2022, he breached his probation and was punished to a year behind bars, and a year of monitored launch. In the exact same year, a 2021 situation for felony averting apprehension by car and negligent endangerment was resumed.
An MS-13 gang participant motions in the Quezaltepeque police headquarters May 20, 2013, in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
He was condemned on those fees in 2023 and was punished to 2 years of monitored launch.
Last year, he was billed with felony residential exacerbated attack, break-in and burglary, and got on the run from cops till they apprehended him onWednesday
Earlier today, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed a $5 million bounty for info resulting in the apprehension of MS-13’s leader in Honduras, Yulan Adonay Archaga Car ías.
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In the United States, the gang has actually just recently remained in the information after one supposed participant, illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported toEl Salvador
He was thought of being associated with labor/human trafficking, according to a 2022 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) record acquired by Fox News.
