America FINALLY grabs slippery global MS-13 boss

It’s easy to understand why this notorious international leader of the MS-13 gang prefers being called El Crook de Hollywood on the street. His real name is Elmer. Élmer Canales Rivera. Let me tell you about it.
The Mob Reporter here with news on the ups and downs of a man named as one of the baddest hombres of a bad bunch, a top shot caller for a gang declared public enemy number one by the White House, who was recently found and arrested in Mexico, and then whisked onto a plane to America, where he was arrested by the FBI when he landed in Texas.
On Nov. 15, 2023, El Crook was formally transferred to New York, where he and others face charges linked to MS-13’s sprawling criminal activities over two decades in the United States, Mexico, El Salvador, and elsewhere. You know you’re a badass when there’s bullet holes right behind your police mug shot. Crook is accused of being a founding member of the Ranfla Nacional, the global leadership body of the Mara Salvatrucha, the formal name of the MS-13.
El Crook’s arrest is more important than most gang busts, however. He is a highly sensitive subject in the Central American country of El Salvador. And here’s why. He was in prison in El Salvador when the United States unsealed an indictment for him in January 2021. He had been behind bars for 20 years on a murder beef when American authorities lodged an Interpol red notice and an extradition request for El Crook to the government of El Salvador. In November 2021, however, something happened.
Instead of being turned over to the U.S., El Crook was suddenly and mysteriously released from prison and whisked across the border to Guatemala and disappeared. At that time, the president of El Salvador was - and still is - Nayib Bukele. You might recall that El Salvador’s president has become globally famous lately for his unprecedented crackdown on El Salvador’s street gangs.
Here's a link to The Mob Reporter episode on Bukele’s mind-blowing purge of gangbangers. At last count, more than 73,000 people had been swept up and incarcerated, with little legal scrutiny.
LINK: • El Salvador's mind-blo...
Published reports say Bukele’s people arrange El Crook’s release as part of a secret deal Salvadoran authorities struck with MS-13 and their rival, Barrio 18, to reduce community violence. But now it isn’t just opposition critics and journalists saying this. The United States government says it’s true as well. The New York indictment of El Crook says he led the MS-13’s negotiations with the government of El Salvador starting in 2012. It gets worse. U.S. prosecutors say they will prove at trial that high-level Salvadoran government officials escorted El Crook out of prison, put him up in a luxury apartment, gave him a gun, and then drove him to the border where arrangements were made with a human trafficker to smuggle him into Guatemala.
His trial in New York, prosecutors say, will feature evidence from more than a dozen former MS-13 members, wiretaps, phone records, and confidential informants. This will be one to watch. I’m sure government officials in El Salvador will be watching it closely too.
CREDITS:
Music is: Spirit Riders by Telecasted // Riding Into The Sun by Telecasted // Dead Wrong by Jeremy Blake;
Crook with friend video from Instagram public account;
Movie film effect by Freepik, USA Flag, Guatemala by Videvo all at Videvo;
Operation Cathedral investigative phots from El Faro;
Mexico flag by Salvador RC, Houston skyline by Jeswin Thomas, NYC by CityXcape, Handcuff release by Ron Lach, Handcuff hanging by Tima Miroshnichenko, Houston at night by Jeswin Thomas, Bubbles by ad urpina all at Pexels;
Prison footage and Bukele photo courtesy of the Government of El Salvador; police operational video by El Salvador police and US ICE HSI.
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