The FBI arrested Danny Antonio Granados-Garcia, a Salvadoran national suspected of belonging to MS-13, on Tuesday in Waterbury, Connecticut, the agency said. FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X that Granados-Garcia was in the United States with an active Salvadoran arrest warrant for aggravated homicide in the alleged killing of a pastor.
FBI New Haven said the arrest followed assistance from the FBI legal attaché in San Salvador. The office said Granados-Garcia had an active Salvadoran arrest warrant and an Interpol Blue Notice for aggravated homicide and was wanted for the murder of a pastor who was a relative of an El Salvadoran police officer.
After the arrest, the FBI turned Granados-Garcia over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to facilitate his return to El Salvador to face charges, the agency said.
“MS-13 members are notorious for their brutality, violence, and intimidation,” FBI New Haven Special Agent in Charge P.J. O’Brien said in a statement. He added that the FBI and its partners remain “steadfast in our commitment to relentlessly pursue members and associates of MS-13 and obtain justice for the victims of their crimes.”
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