OCOTILLO, CALIF: US Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro station apprehended a gang member attempting to make an illegal entry into the United States.
While performing line watch duties Border Patrol agents observed a man later identified as Hugo Guevarra, a 35-year-old Salvadoran national, as he entered the United States illegally from Mexico Agents arrested the man without incident 22 miles west of the downtown Calexico Port of Entry.
The man was transported to the El Centro Border Patrol station, where agents discovered that Guevarra had numerous gang affiliated tattoos. Guevarra openly admitted that he was a member of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) criminal street gang out of El Salvador.
Guevarra is in Border Patrol custody and will be further processed for his illegal entry into the United States.
