The arrest Thursday of 24-year-old Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, an illegal from El Salvador who operated as the east coast leader of the violent MS-13 gang, is reverberating across local law enforcement agencies in the Washington, D.C. area. MS-13 has long been a plague on the DC suburbs, particularly in Northern Virginia, where many illegals from El Salvador and other Central American countries choose to set up camp.
As a resident of one of those Northern Virginia suburbs, Loudoun County, I was pleased to see such a high-profile arrest of such a low-life criminal. I did, however, also wonder what the arrest would mean for communities like mine, which has suffered the ill-effects of MS-13’s continued presence. So, I reached out to Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman, who was clearly thrilled at this development.
Chapman told RedState:
“I congratulate…