A presumed MS-13 gang participant with a fierce felony background has truly been apprehended in Nashville, Tennessee, after a 12 months on the run, cops claimed.
According to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), Leonel Vargas Jr., 24, was apprehended Wednesday mid-day.
Davidson County jail paperwork reveal that he has truly been billed with felony exacerbated assault by strangulation, felony exacerbated break-in, felony probation offense, violation residential assault and a pair of issues of violation housebreaking of residential or industrial property.
Mugshot of Leonel Vargas Jr. (Metro Nashville Police Department)
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He just isn’t certified for bond.
MNPD claimed its Specialized Investigations Division (SID) investigators and authorities Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) representatives, which have truly been analyzing Vargas’ group with the ultra-violent Salvadoran MS-13 gang, collaborated the safety that introduced concerning the apprehension.
ATF verified to Fox News Digital that their examination proper into Vargas’ MS-13 connections is recurring.
risoners with MS-13 gang tattoos maintain a watch out of their cell in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025. (Alex Brandon/Pool/ AFP via Getty Images)
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Vargas has a prolonged felony background stemming again to 2019.
In that 12 months, he was billed with exacerbated assault by strangulation, 2 issues of residential assault resulting in bodily damage and one matter of residential assault with anxiousness of bodily damage. He was punished to probation for these felony actions.
In 2022, he breached his probation and was punished to a 12 months behind bars, and a 12 months of monitored launch. In the very same 12 months, a 2021 state of affairs for felony averting apprehension by automobile and negligent endangerment was resumed.
An MS-13 gang participant motions within the Quezaltepeque police headquarters May 20, 2013, in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
He was condemned on these charges in 2023 and was punished to 2 years of monitored launch.
Last 12 months, he was billed with felony residential exacerbated assault, break-in and housebreaking, and acquired on the run from cops until they apprehended him onWednesday
Earlier at the moment, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed a $5 million bounty for information ensuing within the apprehension of MS-13’s chief in Honduras, Yulan Adonay Archaga Car ías.
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In the United States, the gang has truly only recently remained within the data after one supposed participant, unlawful alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported toEl Salvador
He was considered being related to labor/human trafficking, in response to a 2022 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) document acquired by Fox News.
