Federal agents nabbed another violent Salvadoran national and MS-13 gang member who is wanted for allegedly killing a pastor in El Salvador.
Danny Antonio Granados-Garcia was arrested on Tuesday in Waterbury, Conn., without incident, the FBI’s New Haven office said. He is a wanted fugitive in his home country.
Granados-Garcia has been linked to the murder of a pastor, who was a relative of an El Salvadorian police officer.
FBI Director Kash Patel shared news of his arrest on X, adding “Granados-Garcia was in the U.S. with an active El Salvadorian arrest warrant for aggravated homicide.”
Earlier today, @FBINewHaven arrested Danny Antonio Granados-Garcia — an El Salvador national and suspected member of MS-13.
Granados-Garcia was in the U.S. with an active El Salvadorian arrest warrant for aggravated homicide – wanted for the murder of a pastor.
He has been… pic.twitter.com/JzV7hBbjQr
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) March 10, 2026
The FBI’s New Haven office also issued an update on social media and said he was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “to facilitate his return to El Salvador to be held accountable for his crimes.”
FBI New Haven worked with FBI LEGAT San Salvador to confirm his identity and criminal activity in El Salvador. He had an Interpol HQ Blue Notice for aggravated homicide.
He’s also a suspected member of the MS-13 gang, designated a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration.
“MS-13 members are notorious for their brutality, violence, and intimidation” said FBI New Haven SAC P.J. O’Brien. “No matter how committed they are to creating chaos in our communities, the FBI and our law enforcement partners remain steadfast in our commitment to relentlessly pursue members and associates of MS-13 and obtain justice for the victims of their crimes.”
MS-13 as a transnational organization formed by Salvadoran immigrants who came to the United States and are involved in lucrative illegal enterprises, according to the U.S. Department of Justice gang profile.
The group spreads violence in several countries, primarily in Central and North America. MS-13 is involved in murder, drug trafficking, human smuggling, sex trafficking, racketeering, and extortion.
Members are known for extreme violence, often using machetes, and use intimidation and fear tactics to obtain and control territory.
Several Salvadoran nationals with gang ties have been arrested in the U.S. and linked to violent crimes in recent weeks.
Four illegal immigrants and MS-13 members were indicted last week for allegedly murdering a 14-year-old boy with a machete. He disappeared in August and his body was found in Maryland park three months after the alleged killing.
The suspects all Salvadoran nationals who had previous run-ins with the Metropolitan Police Department, and two were confirmed to have been released from custody during the Biden administration.
In a disturbing and unsolved case out of Mobile County, Alabama, Hector Gamaliel Argueta-Guerra was arrested last month for kidnapping in connection to the Jan. 31 disappearance of the Choc family. He is in the country illegally and had prior arrests and immigration holds but was released.
Argueta-Guerra initially gave a fake alias and has a criminal history in El Salvador and the U.S. Authorities said he is a documented member of the Sureños, also known as Sur 13, and was involved in attempted aggravated homicide investigation in 2015.
In January, Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez, 27, of El Salvador, was arrested in Virginia and taken into custody by ICE. Hernandez is suspected of participating in five murders in El Salvador and is an MS-13 gang member who goes by the aliases “Demente” and “Crazy.”
