MS-13 Sex Offender Arrested in Texas

Texas law enforcement arrested an MS-13 gang member with a history of “sexual violence,” among multiple alien sex offenders in recent days.

Asylum-seeking illegal immigrants sit by concertina wire fence while waiting to be transported by U.S. law enforcement officers after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 24, 2023. Go Nakamura/Reuters

Texas law enforcement has arrested a member of the MS-13 gang with a history of “sexual violence,” amid a round of arrests of criminal illegal aliens near the southern border, the governor’s office announced on Aug. 11.

“DPS Texas Rangers Special Operations Group arrested a known MS-13 gang member from Honduras, Emerson Lopez Fugon, after he was found hiding on a train in Maverick County near Eagle Pass,” an Aug. 11 press release from the Office of the Texas Governor reads. “Lopez Fugon is also a registered sex offender with a violent criminal history, including kidnapping, abduction, and sexual violence.”