ilepurtm.ent nf Justice Breon Peace United States Attorney Eastern District of New York ______________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: JOHN MARZULLI NOVEMBER 15, 2023 DANIELLE BLUSTEIN HASS...
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ilepurtm.ent nf Justice Breon Peace United States Attorney Eastern District of New York ______________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: JOHN MARZULLI NOVEMBER 15, 2023 DANIELLE BLUSTEIN HASS WWW.JUSTICE.GOV (718) 254-6323 HIGH-RANKING MS-13 FUGITIVE ARRESTED ON TERRORISM INDICTMENT Defendant Was Influential Member of the Ranfla Nacional, MS-13’s Board of Directors that Directed Transnational Criminal Operations Today, at the conclusion of a removal hearing, a federal court in Houston, Texas ordered Elmer Canales-Rivera, also known as “Crook de Hollywood,” a high-ranking leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as 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 els
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