Overview
- Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, 33, was taken into custody in Grand Island on Monday on immigration-related charges, according to the Justice Department.
- Authorities allege he led an MS-13 assassination unit known as "El Combo," with the FBI’s Houston office directing the investigation.
- Honduran prosecutors have charged him in a July 2022 quadruple homicide that included Said Lobo Bonilla, the son of former President Porfirio Lobo Sosa.
- An unsealed affidavit says he and two co-defendants bribed officials $125,000 to secure release from a Honduran jail, then fled the country.
- Prosecutors say he crossed from Mexico into Texas, obtained a California driver’s license using his real identity, settled in Nebraska, and was arrested without incident as part of Operation Take Back America; investigators also link him to MS-13 figure Yulan Archaga Carias.