Top Five wins for Trump’s new FBI director as Patel targets gangs, fugitives and terror rings

Cash Patel spent his first month as director of the Federal Investigation Office in some of the most important priorities for law enforcement in the Trump administration, including violent crime, gang activity and drug trafficking-all while he was able to avoid a lot of prominent controversy that some other national security officials have been involved.

His early moves earned him prizes of Republicans in congress, who rushed to praise the first weeks of Batille in office, including his efforts to move quickly and share some documents that the majority requested in the judicial committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

“Under the leadership of the Prosecutor Pam Bondi, the office works strongly every day to find violent criminals, regardless of their whereabouts, and bring them to justice,” Patel told mechanics to think about the first few weeks heading to the office.

“Any success so far is the credit for brave men and women at the FBI, law enforcement partners and local states who are doing a great job to carry out the task.”

Just five weeks after confirming as director of the Federal Investigation Office, here are some of the oldest victory – and most importantly.

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The arrest of the higher members MS-13

The FBI announced this week the arrest of the best MS-13 leader in the United States, Henrry Josue Josue Santos, 24-year-old, Henrry Josue Santos.

Santos was arrested in Woodbridge, Virginia, and was accused of being an illegal foreign in the possession of a firearm.

Fox News told this week that Santos is one of the three best leaders in the MS-13 gangs in the United States

Bondi, the American Public Prosecutor, and Patil, watched the detention at the nearby tactical operations center.

In an interview with Fox News, Bondi praised the team to carry out a “clean and safe operation” and guest the FBI employees to obtain “one of the worst in MS-13 off the streets this morning.”

Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi, Director of the FBI Cash Patel and the Director of National Intelligence Toulsi Gabbard, was seen in the form of March 5, shared by the US Department of Justice. (US Department of Justice.)

The fleeing arrests “wanted”

Patel announced last week that since January 20, the FBI has arrested three fugitives from the list of the 10 best wanted in the FBI – an achievement that he said on social media is the result of good leadership and hard work of office employees.

Among the individuals arrested by Arnoldo Jiminies, accused of killing his wife in Borbank, Illinois, in 2012; Donald Eugene Fields II, accused of trafficking in children’s sex and the charge of raping children in the Federal Court and the State Court, respectively; and Francisco Javier Roman Bardales, another leader of MS-13, was arrested in Mexico last week and handed him over to the United States, where he was charged with blackmail, conspiracy and conspiracy to provide and hide material support and resources to terrorists, and foreign conspiracy.

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Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi and FBI director Cash Patel. (Reuters)

The Romanian Bardales had been fleeing for nearly three years before his arrest and believed to be a founding member of the MS-13 leadership structure in the United States, where he helped direct the activities of the illegal group in the United States, El Salvador, and elsewhere for almost 20 years.

Battle praised the arrests in a post on X, noting that the successes of the FBI “are not an accident.”

“When you let good police be good policemen, this is what happens,” he said. “This administration gives FBI and AG Bondi resources to accomplish the task – and we will not stop.”

Drug

The FBI (FBI), under the leadership of Patel, raided and arrested 22 members of the Lubuk drug smuggling ring, Texas, believed to be linked to violent drug gangs in Mexico.

This process comes at a time when Patel and Bondi moved to suppress drugs and smuggle drugs as part of Trump’s agenda for the second White House term.

In a post on X, Patel praised the Dallas Field Office at the FBI, the Texas Law enforcement committee, and the drug control department.

“These are the operations that mean the safest streets for American families,” Patel said. “We just started.”

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Tesla arrests

The FBI and the US Department of Justice have worked side by side to break a wave of sabotage targeting Tesla agents, accusation stations, and individual Tesla cars in the United States – the measures described by Bondi at a press conference earlier this month as “local terrorism” that are punishable by imprisonment for up to 20 years.

Individuals have been arrested in recent weeks to set fire to Tesla cars and TESLA throughout the country, sabotage of charging stations and wall sculpting, including anti -Trump’s messages, into personal vehicles.

Crime prompted a federal campaign followed by the leadership of the FBI and the Ministry of Justice.

Recently, the authorities announced on Thursday of federal accusations against a 36 -year -old resident of Las Vegas, accused of setting cars in Tesla collision in Nevada earlier this month. Video footage obtained by the authorities shows an individual who uses Molotov cocktails to set fire to Teslas, using the AR-30 gun to shoot in vehicles and spray the word “resistance” on individual cars.

The Las Vegas authorities described the crime as a “targeted” attack on the Tesla facility.

“As I promised, it will not be tolerated with violence and sabotage, and today the law enforcement officials have been quickly to arrest an individual on charges of intentional burning,” Patel said on Thursday in a press statement announcing federal charges. “Under the leadership of the Public Prosecutor Bondi, we will continue to follow these investigations with the full force of the law and we will provide justice to justice responsible for these attacks.”

Lashing terrorist money has stopped

The Ministry of Justice announced this week a successful disturbance in the main cryptocurrency financing system that is believed to be used to launder money to Hamas – a great victory for the Anti -Terrorism Department at the FBI, the Cyrran Department and the Boucoric Field Office at the FBI, which was running the investigation.

The enthusiastic -controlled financing episode by the terrorist group was used to wash more than $ 1.5 million in a virtual coded currency since October 2024, according to the FBI and Ministry of Justice employees.

The authorities said that the supporters had been encouraged to make donations to Hamas through an encrypted group chat and the complex money laundering system.

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The FBI director, Cash Patel, was seen waiting for a delivery trip that was carrying Mohamed Shaiflullah. (Ministry of Justice)

In total, the FBI seized the assets of an encrypted currency from the group, including another $ 112,000 of three exchange accounts registered in the names of Palestinian individuals who live in Türkiye and other places. The important success comes as Hamas has increasingly embraced the cryptocurrency and cryptocurrencies to better detect the detection.

The US Treasury believes that Hamas has been using encryption to launder its money since at least 2020, while taking advantage of the decentralized and unorganized nature of the digital currency.

These early victories are a sign of power for the office as it seeks to get rid of what it considers unfair perceptions of weapons or politicization, and to follow the main priorities within the framework of the Trump administration.

A spokesman for the FBI’s Ben Williamson’s job office praised the performance of Patel, and told Fox News Digital, “The FBI and law enforcement partners have provided our multiple major initiatives during the first month only, but the work began only.”

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Williamson said: “Director Pattel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino built a very wonderful team for the Federal Investigation Office, committed to providing promises to build general confidence, participate with Congress partners to increase transparency, and follow -up of violent criminals in every corner of the Earth,” Williamson said.

“We just started.”

Anders Hagstrom of Fox News, David Spunt and Jake Gibson contributed to this report.