Brian Dowling Saturday, September 10, 2016


Credit: FBI

The reputed MS-13 gang enforcer who the FBI put out a $20,000 reward for earlier this week had twice been deported from the United States, federal immigration officials told the Herald.

Efrain Vasquez-Yanez, 34, was deported in February 2006 and July 2008, according to Shawn Neudauer, New England spokesman for U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement.

Vasquez-Yanez, indicted in January along with 55 other reputed members and associates of MS-13, “is an ICE enforcement priority due to his gang affiliation,” 
Neudauer said in a statement to the Herald.

The FBI on Thursday offered up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of Vasquez-Yanez, a convicted felon on the run from federal RICO and drug charges. The native Salvadoran was last seen in Everett in July and is believed to still be in the Boston area, FBI 
officials said.

Vasquez-Yanez is described as having a tattoo of the Grim Reaper and a skeleton on his right arm, black hair, brown eyes, about 5 feet, 7 inches, and 140 pounds. The FBI said he is likely armed with a gun, knives or both.

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