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14 Jul2025
Arrested MS-13 kingpin is wanted for multiple murders; MS-13 associate also captured
OMAHA, Neb. — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided key assistance to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations resulting in the July 9 arrest of a high-ranking member of the violent MS-13 gang who was listed among El Salvador’s top 100 most wanted fugitives.
The Salvadoran national is a criminal alien wanted in El Salvador for the aggravated homicide of five victims, attempted aggravated homicide, deprivation of liberty, and affiliation with a terrorist organization, ICE announced in a news release.
The criminal alien was apprehended alongside an MS-13 associate he was residing with and who was also in the United States illegally.
His associate, Rene Saul Escobar Ochoa, 30, is a criminal alien, known MS-13 gang member, and foreign terrorist also wanted in El Salvador. Escobar Ochoa is accused of giving orders to fellow gang members to commit a variety of crimes, including multiple homicides, extortion, imprisonment, and drug trafficking.
Both individuals were arrested without incident in a targeted enforcement action. They had embedded themselves in the Omaha area, where they posed severe threats to the local community’s safety.
HSI, ICE’s Enforcement Removal Operations, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are conducting the investigation. USCIS provided key information to HSI that helped narrow down the location of the criminals and the vehicle one of the suspects was using, leading to successful arrests.
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