U.S. authorities arrested an alleged leader in a local MS-13 gang who had been a fugitive for nearly four years after being ...

Joel Vargas-Escobar was arrested for his alleged role in a “conspiracy responsible for 11 murders,” the Department of Justice ...

Escobar, also known as "Momia," was indicted in the District of Nevada and charged with a racketeering conspiracy that ...

A high-ranking leader of the violent MS-13 gang, who had been a fugitive for nearly four years, was arrested Tuesday night in ...

Escobar, an illegal El Salvadoran immigrant and alleged MS-13 gangbanger, after four years he spent as a wanted fugitive in ...

Federal law enforcement agents arrested another high-ranking MS-13 member, marking the Trump administration’s latest blow to ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KOLO) - A man accused of being a high-ranking member of the gang MS-13 has been indicted in Nevada. Joel ...

Joel "Momia" Vargas-Escobar was the alleged leader of the "Parkview clique" of MS-13 operating out of the Las Vegas area, federal prosecutors said. Vargas-Escobar was deported to El Salvador in ...

The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that the FBI arrested a "high-ranking' MS-13 leader in New York.

Joel Vargas-Escobar was arrested in Westbury, New York, late Tuesday and is being transferred to Nevada, where he was initially charged in a 2021 federal indictment. Prosecutors are seeking to put ...