POLITICS NEWS – Justice Department moves to drop case against alleged MS-13 leader
Laila Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is now seeking to drop the criminal case against a Virginia man accused of being a leader of the MS-13 gang. This comes weeks after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced his arrest in a press conference last month. Bondi referred to Henry Villatoro Santos as, “one of the top members and head of the East Coast” of the violent MS-13 gang during a news conference on March 27th in Virginia. Bondi also accused Villator Santos of being responsible for, “very violent crimes, anything you can associate with MS-13. He was the leader over all of the violent crimes.”
In a court filing Wednesday in Virginia, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia asked a judge, “to dismiss without prejudice the criminal complaint presently pending against the defendant.” When asked why the DOJwas dropping the case Bondi said that Villator Santos, “won’t be in this country much longer.”