Overview
- The DOJ says Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, 33, was taken into custody Monday in Grand Island on illegal-entry grounds.
- Authorities allege he helped oversee an MS-13 assassination unit known as El Combo.
- He is charged in Honduras in connection with a 2022 quadruple homicide, and investigators link him to the killing of Said Lobo Bonilla.
- Prosecutors say he and two co-defendants bribed officials to leave jail, after which he crossed from Mexico into Texas in November and later obtained a California driver’s license.
- The FBI’s Houston office led the operation and continues a broader gang investigation under Operation Take Back America.