Posted on 04/23/2025 1:51:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
MS-13 Member Sentenced to Over 12 Years for Kidnapping, Witness Retaliation, and a Firearms Offense
An MS-13 member and Honduran national, illegally in the United States, was sentenced today to 147 months in prison for kidnapping, retaliating against a federal witness, and unlawful possession of a firearm.
According to court documents and statements made in court, on Nov. 5, 2023, Bayron Wuifredo Santos-Recarte, 27, of Honduras, together with other associates of La Mara Salvatrucha 13, better known as MS-13, kidnapped a former federal witness at gunpoint in the parking lot of a laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee. The witness was kidnapped because, eight months prior, he had testified during a federal racketeering trial against MS-13 members. Specifically, the witness testified that MS-13 members tried to shoot and murder him on two occasions over a drug dispute.
During the kidnapping, the victim was held in a truck for hours while being assaulted with a firearm, hammer, and machete. While Santos-Recarte and others assaulted the witness, they also questioned him about why he testified against MS-13 and threatened him with death. After the victim was finally able to escape and call for help, he was treated at a local hospital for serious injuries, which included fractured bones, internal bleeding, and an injury to his kidney.
“The defendant, an MS-13 member, kidnapped a former federal witness and tortured him with a machete, hammer, and gun. This violence and obstruction of the American legal system is core MS-13 conduct and exemplifies why MS-13 has been designated a foreign terrorist organization,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “The Department remains focused on eliminating this organization. There is more to come. Thank you to the prosecutors, ATF, and our local law enforcement partners...”
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Just don’t try to deport him.
12 years?
We ought to give him a free hole in the ground with no marker.
12 years hardly seems like justice to me. We used to give kidnappers life.
Send him to El Salvador. Our prisons are Country Clubs compared to theirs.
Should have been more than 12 years.
Send him to GITMO.
I taught GED in English and Spanish for quite a while. All of the adult students were legally in the United States. They had to prove it to be enrolled.
When we would have the occasion to discuss keeping your record clean to get a better job, I will never forget what one of the students stated:
“Ah, C’mon teacher. The prisons in America are like the hotels in my country.”
Justice would be served if he was sentenced to death, dismembered with body parts sent to different countries and all liberal activist judges should be forced to watch the execution and take part in the dismemberment for patriotic re-education.
If they had firing squads for these monsters, there would be a lot fewer of them joining gangs.
This was by the DOJ. They are just one by oneing us to death. They crow about 1 or 25 being indicted on Rico charges.....there are over 30 million here! I don’t care if they’re criminals or not. Quit nitpicking and get them all out. Start mass deportations and I’ll give you some credit. Til then....shrug.
Hope he goes into the witness protection program, even though it sounds like he was none too clean, himself.
photo.
Sen. van Hollen: “I’ll be there with a lavender scented lotion to give him a massage. At taxpayer expense.”
“Quit nitpicking and get them all out. Start mass deportations and I’ll give you some credit. Til then....shrug.”
Duh, they were flying them out by the planeloads...
Way back in the old days.
I'll bet they felt cool playing the Carpenters and Barry Manilow on cassettes on their blasters.
So, this VISITOR is a NASHVILLE RESIDENT?
At least he wasn’t a j6er, they get 20 years./s/
Along with Mayorkas and Biden.
My take as well. I would not oppose killing those human vermin just for setting foot in this Nation.
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