Ms-13 Gang Member Caught Illegally Crossing US-Mexico Border Into California: Border Patrol

Central American migrants sit above the US-Mexico border fence as a Border Patrol agent stands guard, as seen from Tijuana to San Diego as seen from Playas de Tijuana, in Baja California state, Mexico, on March 21, 2019. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images

An MS-13 gang member from El Salvador was arrested after crossing into the United States illegally, said the Border Patrol on Wednesday.

The 28-year-old El Salvadoran national, who was not named, was found at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday by an agent patrolling the mountains in the San Diego, California, border sector “when he encountered six men near the border wall,” the agency said in a news release.