Alleged MS-13 gang member accused of 5 murders in home country nabbed in Virginia

FIRST ON FOX: An MS-13 pack subordinate and alleged wide murderer has been taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) successful Virginia, Department of Homeland Security sources told Fox News Digital. 

The announcement of the apprehension of Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez, 27, of El Salvador, comes aft recently sworn-in Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an enforcement bid saying section and authorities instrumentality enforcement are nary longer required to cooperate with ICE, repealing an bid from her Republican predecessor, Glenn Youngkin. 

Sources told Fox News Digital that Hernandez has claimed to person participated successful 5 murders successful El Salvador and is an MS-13 pack subordinate who goes by the aliases "Demente" and "Crazy." 

In 2 of the claimed murders, Hernandez allegedly changeable members of the rival 18th Street pack successful the thorax and head, according to the sources. The gang, besides referred to arsenic Barrio 18, was designated by the U.S. State Department past twelvemonth arsenic a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).

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Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez was detained by ICE successful Alexandria, Va., DHS sources told Fox News Digital. (GettyUSCIS)

In different murder, Hernandez stated that MS-13 was torturing an 18th Street pack subordinate and stabbed him doubly successful the thorax earlier MS-13 dismembered the idiosyncratic portion helium was inactive alive, the sources added. 

A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) study obtained by Fox News Digital said Hernandez entered the U.S. illegally adjacent Hidalgo, Texas, successful June 2015. 

He was past arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol, the study said, earlier being released from custody during migration tribunal proceedings.

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Abigail Spanberger is sworn successful arsenic Virginia's archetypal pistillate and the 75th Governor of Virginia connected Jan. 17, 2026, successful Richmond, Va. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hernandez yet was brought backmost into custody by ICE connected Dec. 31 successful Alexandria, Va., for remaining successful the U.S. without a due visa and amerciable entry, according to the report. 

DHS sources told Fox News Digital helium was arrested aft USCIS referred him to ICE. 

On her archetypal time successful office, Spanberger, a Democrat, signed an enforcement bid that "rescinded Executive Order 47, which requires and encourages authorities and section instrumentality enforcement to divert their constricted resources for usage successful enforcing national civilian migration laws."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, on with different national instrumentality enforcement agencies, be a pre-enforcement gathering successful Chicago, Ill., connected Jan. 26, 2025.  (Getty Images)

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"Ensuring nationalist information successful Virginia requires authorities and section instrumentality enforcement to beryllium focused connected their halfway responsibilities of investigating and deterring transgression activity, staffing jails, and assemblage engagement," her bureau said astatine the time. 

Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.