MS-13 gang seen as growing threat

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MS-13 gang seen as growing threat

Texas – Shortly after midnight in late September, a Texas National Guard soldier with night-vision equipment spied four figures slipping through the brush and alerted Border Patrol agents.

The men were arrested, and one in particular stood out for the extensive tattoos across his face, body and arms. Wilmer Matamoros, 23, a Mara Salvatrucha gang leader, was imprisoned earlier this year in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

A fingerprint check showed Santos Chileno-Gomez, a 23-year-old Salvadoran, had been deported for an assault on a Long Island, N.Y., police officer. His lengthy criminal record – and the tattoos – labeled him as a member of Mara Salvatrucha 13, a vicious international street gang that federal authorities call one of the most violent in the U.S.

Click here for the full story. Click here to see unique facial tattos of a MS-13 gang member and click here to see body tattoos.

The black Expedition I was behind on 75/Fruitville this afternoon had 5 decals of that hand symbol pasted on the blackout windows. Now I know what it meant.