Jose Miguel Reyes Jovel/El Salvador/Homicide, Drug Trafficking

Jose Miguel Reyes Jovel, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador and known MS-13 gang member, has been identified in recent enforcement reporting as having multiple serious convictions in the United States. Public summaries state that he has been convicted of homicide, drug trafficking and selling amphetamine, placing him among the most violent and heavily involved narcotics offenders highlighted in the latest federal operation.​

In addition to his U.S. convictions, Reyes Jovel was arrested in El Salvador in 2011 on an aggravated homicide charge, reflecting a prior record of alleged lethal violence in his home country before his more recent criminal activity in the United States. Officials and media accounts describing the Minnesota “Metro Surge” operation list him by name as an MS-13 member whose history spans cross‑border gang activity, deadly violence and distribution of hard drugs, including amphetamines.