FBI’s Gang Task Force Scores Big Wins, Now Hochul Pressured To Do The Same in NY

FBI Director Kash Patel’s new anti-gang task force is already stacking bodies, collecting criminal gang members like they’re Pokémon cards.

Since launching in Virginia, it’s taken down 340 criminals, including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua members.

Yep, Patel’s team is out to catch ’em all!

Now Patel wants to go nationwide, and Long Island prosecutors are begging Gov. Hochul to say yes.

It’s high time Long Island got cleaned up. All of New York, for that matter.

The mission?

Stop violent migrant gangs before they do anymore damage to this great nation.

Pressure mounts on Hochul to bring new FBI task force that targets violent criminals to New York https://t.co/pe9064WdvE pic.twitter.com/MwYsh8z0DH

— New York Post (@nypost) March 27, 2025

New York Post reports:

FBI Director Kash Patel hopes to expand the bureau’s new task force to all 50 states after rounding up dozens of migrant gang members since its debut, and prosecutors on Long Island — which has seen its communities terrorized by MS-13 — are urging Gov. Hochul to roll out the red carpet.

“Gov. Hochul should be open to a conversation about having a gang task force here. I support it. We should do everything in our power to take down these gangs,” Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly told The Post.

“In Nassau, we always work closely with our federal partners, state partners. I work with whoever will help us improve public safety.”

The first-in-the-nation interagency task force, led by the FBI, was established to target “violent criminals and illegals harming our citizenry and our way of life,” Patel told The Post.

The law enforcement agencies involved include different FBI field offices, the Border Patrol, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, the Virginia State Police, the Virginia Department of Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Administration and more.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Wednesday that a major task force operation in Virginia had netted 340 criminals since its March 3 launch, including gang members from notorious and violent gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua.

On Thursday, the task force nabbed Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador, the East Coast’s top leader of MS-13, whom Bondi branded “the worst of the worst.”

Long Island communities like Brentwood in Suffolk County have seen some of the worst of MS-13’s savagery in recent years, including the merciless slaying of innocent teenagers.

Justice is indeed coming.

To those that are known criminals, and to those wolves that are still wearing masks.

Exposure and justice.

The FBI arrested one of the top three leaders of the MS-13 gang in Virginia, marking a significant blow to the organization

Now send them to El Salvador prison https://t.co/m2LP7PKTdy pic.twitter.com/ij4smvqES3

— 🌸 DigiGal (@DigitalGal_) March 27, 2025