GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) - The Nebraska U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that federal charges were filed against a Grand Island man who federal officials say is an MS-13 leader wanted in connection with the deaths of four people in Honduras.

Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, 33, was charged in federal court in Lincoln with illegal entry of an unlawfully present alien.

According to U.S. Attorney Lesley A. Woods, an unsealed complaint alleges that Cuadra Soto, a Honduran national, was a leader in MS-13 and part of a professional assassination squad for the criminal organization.

The complaint says that after being charged in Honduras in 2022 with firearms offenses tied to the quadruple homicide, Cuadra Soto and two co-defendants allegedly bribed their way out of jail.

He is then alleged

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