A federal judge has dismissed a pistol charges against a 24-year-old man from Virginia, and the Trump administration called the top leader of the MS-13.
Henry Jose Villato Santos is still faced with his native El Salvador after a brief order of senior judge Claude Hilton of April 30 rejects the prosecution of a crime, as requested by federal prosecutors. Villatoro Santos has no legal status in the United States and remains at risk of sending a notorious mega prisoner to his native El Salvador, despite the decline in the allegations, his lawyer said in court treaties.
The Trump administration has sent hundreds of migrants accused of ties with Salvadoran and Venezuelan gangs at the Salvador or Secot Terrorism Center. Many of the people who were prisoned, neither had criminal files nor links with bands.
The Federal Judge decided May 1, that the Trump administration could not send immigrants to El Salvador’s detention under the Enemy Enemy Act. Later on the same day, the administration asked the Supreme Court to hear the case.
Villatoro Santos is already in the arrest of immigration and customs law enforcement at the Farmville detention center in Virginia, according to court records. He has a hearing of the Immigration Court on June 3.
His lawyer, Mohammed Elsaid, said in an email statement on May 2 that the government had used Villato Santos “as a stunt -stunt support.”
“No one in America should wonder if they will be granted their fundamental rights to a proper process when they are detained by the government,” he said, “and no one should live in fear that he may be forcibly disappeared into a foreign autocracy in the middle of the night.”
Accused of being a band’s leader
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With a little evidence, employees called Villatoro Santos one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the country responsible for the supervision of the band’s operations on the east coast.
Prosecutor General Pam Bondi has announced a case against Maine’s Ministry of Education over state refusal to ban transsexual athletes.
“America is safer today because one of the best internal terrorists in the MS-13, it is off the street,” Bondi said at the time.
The Ministry of Justice did not return a request for comment on May 2 to reject the charges. The FBI, whose agents bet Villatoro Santos Family House, declined to comment. Youngkin’s service forwards questions to the US Law Firm. The US Prosecutor’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia declined to comment, pointing to it as a continued question.
Prince William County Police refer questions to federal employees and declined to comment on any alleged band relationships. Virginia’s court records indicate that Villatoro Santos had a case in November, which led to two violations for driving without a certificate and driving without insurance. Previously, he pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana, a crime in 2019.
The arrest at his mother’s home revealed that Villatoro Santos seems to have lived into a garage, turned into a bedroom. Inside, an ice deport official said in court documents that employees had found several firearms, ammunition, two suppressors and “indications” of MS-13 affiliation.
Federal prosecutors accused him of a crime, as an undocumented immigrant holding a gun. But less than two weeks later, prosecutors moved to withdraw the case completely. On the same day, April 9, Bondi said employees would strive to remove it from the country.
A charge has been rejected but still faced with the removal
In extraordinary proposals, he confessed to “unusual”, Elsei tried to delay the federal case to be rejected against his client. He was worried that Villatoro Santos would be removed and detained without a proper process in Salvadoran’s prison known as Cecot.
He pointed to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 -year -old, Maryland’s father misconded in Salvador, who was housed in Secot. The federal courts have ordered his return.
In response to the potential removal of Villatoro Santos, federal prosecutors said in court files: “Within the United States’ prerogative to seek the removal of aliens, which are illegal or illegal in that country instead of chasing them, whether accusations are indicted.”
Elside said Villato Santos had already had a hearing in front of judges from districts and magistrates, and now an immigration judge. He said this demonstrated “Our system is able to handle these issues in an expeditionary way.”
This article originally appeared in USA Today: The judge drops the case against Washington, the MS-13 brand by Trump Admin