Department of Justice attorneys told a judge in Virginia on Wednesday evening that they wanted to drop a case they brought against the alleged East Coast leader of a violent transnational gang, rather than move forward with prosecuting him.
The move came after top DOJ officials held a large press conference last month alongside Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to draw attention to Henrry Villatoro Santos’s arrest in a Northern Virginia suburb. They alleged at the time that Santos, a Salvadoran national, was one of the top three leaders in the country of the MS-13 gang.
After the revelation of his case dismissal, Bondi said she planned to seek his deportation in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner.
“As a terrorist, he will now face the removal process,” Bondi said.
During the press conference, Bondi had said that “anything you can associate with MS-13, he was the…
