A 48-year-old El Salvadoran national who was a senior leader of the notoriously violent MS-13 gang and among the FBI’s most wanted fugitives was apprehended at the California-Mexico border earlier this month.
Freddy Ivan Jandres-Parada had been on the run for more than three years since he was indicted in the Eastern District of New York along with more than a dozen other leaders of MS-13 in December 2020 on terrorism offenses, according to federal court documents.
Jandres-Parada, also known as Lucky De Park View, was taken into custody March 7 at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego County by the FBI, the Los Angeles Times reported. He is being held at the federal prison in San Diego, and his detention order, dated March 8, showed he waived his right to bail. The FBI had issued a $10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
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