Three Points Border Patrol agents patrolling a remote mountain pass west of Tucson Sunday evening encountered and arrested a Salvadorian man who entered the U.S. illegally.
The man, later identified as 23-year-old Gerson Sanchez-Benitez, was transported to the Three Points Station for processing, where agents ran his biometric information through a criminal database and discovered his active affiliation with the MS-13 street gang. He was previously deported from the U.S. in 2017 for crimes committed in Virginia.
Sanchez will remain in federal custody pending prosecution for criminal immigration violations.