MS-13 gang leader accused in murder of ex-Honduran president’s son arrested in Nebraska

An MS-13 person believed to person overseen a termination squad for the bloodthirsty pack — and who is linked to the sidesplitting of the lad of the erstwhile president of Honduras — was arrested successful Nebraska connected Monday, the bureau said.

Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, 33, aka "Fantasma," was taken into custody successful Grand Island, 150 miles westbound of Omaha, connected immigration-related charges, the FBI said Tuesday.

Cuadra is believed to person overseen "El Combo," an MS-13 termination squad designated to transportation retired assassinations connected behalf of the gang. He has been charged successful Honduras with 4 homicides, authorities said. 

Authorities fishy helium played a relation successful the July 2022 sidesplitting of Said Lobo Bonilla, the lad of erstwhile Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa. Bonilla and 3 different men were killed arsenic they near a nightclub successful the Honduran superior of Tegucigalpa.

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Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, 33, aka "Fantasma," was taken into custody successful the Omaha country connected immigration-related charges. Authorities said Soto is an MS-13 person with adjacent ties to different pack leaders.  (Hall County Department of Corrections;  Getty Images)

Cuadra fled Honduras pursuing the quadruple murder. He and 2 co-defendants were released from jailhouse aft authorities officials were paid $125,000 successful bribes, national prosecutors said, according to an unsealed affidavit.  

Authorities allege that Cuadra entered the United States successful November by crossing from Mexico into Texas and aboriginal obtained a California driver’s license.

Honduran authorities identified Cuadra arsenic a adjacent subordinate of Yulan Archaga Carias, known arsenic "Porky," who is listed connected the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted fugitives list. Carias is believed to beryllium MS-13's person successful Honduras and a voting subordinate of the gang’s enactment group, "La Mesa."

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The convulsive thoroughfare pack MS-13 has made its beingness felt successful tiny towns and suburbs. (Fox News)

He is charged by the Justice Department with racketeering conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and possession of and conspiracy to person instrumentality guns.

Despite Cuadra’s apprehension connected migration charges, the FBI's Houston office, which led the probe that resulted successful his arrest, continues to analyse him for his alleged relation arsenic an MS-13 leader. 

The lawsuit is portion of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide inaugural aimed astatine dismantling cause cartels and transnational transgression organizations, and to support communities from convulsive crime.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the FBI, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security for much information, but did not instantly person a response.

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In February, President Donald Trump designated respective groups — mostly cause cartels, including MS-13 — arsenic Foreign Terrorist Organizations, expanding the government’s quality to ace down connected transgression groups operating successful the U.S.