Border Patrol Agents Arrest Criminal Sex Offenders and Gang Members in RGV

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector agents arrested a Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13) and a 18th Street gang member and two convicted sex offenders. On April 20, Rio Grande City Station agents encountered…

Here’s How Many Gang Members Have Been Caught Trying To Exploit Biden’s Border Policies

Here’s How Many Gang Members Have Been Caught Trying To Exploit Biden’s Border Policies Jennie Taer on April 20, 2022 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers apprehended nearly 500 migrants affiliated with…

Child Predators Arrested by USBP Agents

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrest two child sexual predators and more gang members. Agents working at the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint referred a tractor trailer…

RGV Agents Apprehend Five Gang Members

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrest two Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13), a Sureno, and two 18th Street gang members in two days. On April 11, McAllen Border Patrol…

Multiple Criminal Migrants and Gang Members Arrested

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector agents arrested three gang members, three convicted sex offenders, and a Romanian national with a criminal history of financial crimes and identity fraud. On April…

Statement of United States Attorney Breon Peace on the Verdict in United States v. Escobar

“I am Breon Peace, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Five years ago today, on April 11, 2017, the defendant Leniz Escobar lured five young men to…

Declaración del Fiscal de los Estados Unidos Breon Peace sobre United States v. Leniz Escobar

“Soy Breon Peace, el Fiscal de los Estados Unidos para el Distrito Este de Nueva York. Hoy hace cinco años, el 11 de abril de 2017, la acusada, Leniz Escobar, atrajo a…

Multiple Criminal Migrants Arrested

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector agents arrested five gang members, a criminal migrant with a conviction for a child related crime, and a Mexican national with a conviction for kidnapping.…

USP Lee Inmate Sentenced to 188 Months for Attempted Murder of Fellow Inmate

ABINGDON, Va. – Moris Alexis Flores, 33, an inmate at United States Penitentiary Lee County (USP Lee), was sentenced yesterday to over 15 years in prison for conspiring to murder a fellow…

Border Patrol agents arrest six gang members in three days

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested six subjects with gang affiliations in three days. On April 2, 2022, Rio Grande City Border Patrol agents working in Roma,…

Criminal Migrants and Gang Members Arrested Throughout the RGV

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector agents arrested multiple gang members and criminal migrants with extensive criminal histories including murder and sexual assault convictions and charges. On March 28, Weslaco Border…

Venice Man Sentenced To 15 Months In Federal Prison For Making Threatening Phone Calls To Members Of Congress

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge William F. Jung today sentenced Frank Anthony Pezzuto (73, Venice) to 15 months in federal prison for transmitting in interstate commerce communications threatening to injure certain…

RGV Agents Arrest Five Gang Members

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested four Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13) and an 18th Street gang members over several days. On March 21, McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents…

Border Patrol Arrests Multiple Criminal Migrants and Gang Members

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector (RGV) agents arrested two previously convicted sex offenders and two gang members. On March 15, McAllen Border Patrol Station agents apprehended a Salvadoran…

RGV Agents Arrest Multiple Gang Members and Sex Offenders

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector Border Patrol agents arrested three migrants with prior convictions for sexual crimes and three gang members. On March 2, a McAllen Border Patrol Station…

RGV Agents Apprehend 18 Criminal Migrants

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrested and identified 12 gang members, and six migrants with criminal convictions, to include homicide and sexual crimes against children. These…

Multiple Criminal Migrants Arrested in the RGV

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector Border Patrol agents arrested several migrant criminals this week. On Feb. 7, McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents arrested a Salvadoran national near Mission,…

McAllen Border Patrol Agents Arrest Three Gang Members

EDINBURG, Texas – McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents arrest several active gang members over the weekend. On Feb. 5, MCS agents working near Havana, Texas, arrested several subjects, to include a…

RGV Agents Arrest Two Convicted Murderers

EDINBURG, Texas –Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrest five criminal migrants, including two convicted murderers, a sex offender, and known gang members. Just after midnight on Jan. 12,…

Border Patrol Arrests Two Child Sex Offenders

EDINBURG, Texas –Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrest two sex offenders and a gang member. On Jan. 2, at approximately 7:00 a.m., McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents arrested…

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