Posted on 08/22/2025 5:36:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Thursday's arrests in Washington, D.C., during the Trump administration's federal crime crackdown included a suspected member of the brutal Salvadoran street gang MS-13.
"Just yesterday we made 40 arrests, took 5 more illegal firearms off our streets, and had 36 ICE arrests—including a suspected MS-13 gang member," Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X Friday morning.
Thursday's arrests bring the total to 719 since President Donald Trump announced his effort to federalize the D.C. police Aug. 11, according to Bondi. She thanked Trump for his "unwavering support to make DC safe again!"
Approximately 800 National Guard troops have descended upon the city since the order, along with countless federal agents from the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), ICE and the DEA.
On Aug. 15, Bondi said the total number of arrests was 189, meaning that over the past week, federal authorities have arrested 530 suspected criminals, an average of almost 76 per day.
The suspects have been charged with crimes including homicide, drug trafficking, possession of illegal firearms and child sex crimes.
With mounting criminal cases in the nation's capital, the Trump administration said Thursday that it was deploying Judge Advocate General (JAG) attorneys, who are military lawyers, to prosecute misdemeanors.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. confirmed to Fox News Digital that 20 JAGs will handle the cases.
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Some federal woke liberal judge will set him free.
I go to DC about quarterly. I look forward to my next visit without walking by gangs of weed soaked thugs harassing passerby.
If Congress doesn’t vote to allow an extension, the good days in DC are over when the special thirty days are over.
At that time, as the joke about the City of Detroit goes:
In most places if someone hears a loud bang they rush to the window to look outside to see what’s happening.
In Detroit, everyone just immediately hits the floor.
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