US Raises Total Reward to $15 Million for Capture of Top MS-13 Leaders In Honduras

‘Porky’ and ‘Cuervo’ are in charge of the gang’s criminal activities, which include trafficking large volumes of cocaine into the United States.

A sign outside the State Department in Washington on July 11, 2025. Saule Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The State Department on Thursday raised reward offers to a total of $15 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two senior leaders of Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, one of the world’s most vicious gangs.

MS-13 was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration in 2025.

The department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs increased the reward to as much as $10 million for information leading to the arrest of Yulan Adonay Archaga Carías, also known as “Porky,” and offered a new reward of up to $5 million for information on Víctor Eduardo Morales Zelaya, also known as “Cuervo.” The two men are considered the highest-ranking MS-13 members based in Honduras.

MS-13 is based in Central America’s Northern Triangle—Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador—and its leaders have orchestrated the movement of large volumes of cocaine northward, as well as violence and crime on both sides of the U.S. border.

According to court documents, Archaga Carías and Morales Zelaya are in charge of the gang’s criminal activities, including drug trafficking, money laundering, murder, and kidnapping. They are also alleged to be behind the gang’s cocaine trafficking into the United States.

Archaga Carías is one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. He also ranks among the Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security Investigations’ most wanted fugitives.

The investigation falls under the purview of the Homeland Security Task Force, which was established by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump when he took office for his second term.

The permanent, whole-of-government task force focuses on criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking networks in the United States and abroad.

The State Department’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program enhances law enforcement efforts to undermine transnational crime across the globe.

The Trump administration has waged a campaign targeting criminal gangs such as MS-13. The group was designated a foreign terrorist organization in February 2025 by the State Department, and federal authorities have since conducted multiple arrests and deportations of alleged gang members, including removing individuals affiliated with MS-13 and Tren de Aragua from the United States to El Salvador.

Since Trump has taken office, there have been arrests of several notable MS-13 members, including the January nabbing of a senior gang leader who had been on the run for nearly a decade. In April 2025, a high-ranking MS-13 leader wanted for multiple murders was arrested in Long Island, New York.