U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office arrested a six-time removed criminal alien and MS-13 gang member from El Salvador on February 24, just hours after he allegedly murdered a Houston-area man in the Colony Ridge sub-division in Plum Grove, Texas.
Luis Miguel Perez-Miranda, a 34-year-old Salvadoran national, was apprehended following a manhunt by authorities in Dayton, Texas, and was taken to the Liberty County Jail.
“The residents in Southeast Texas can rest easier knowing this dangerous transnational gang member has been removed from the community and is safely in custody,” said ICE Homeland Security Investigations Houston Special Agent in Charge Chad Plantz.
Plantz added, “Thanks to the close relationships we have with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners, we were able to quickly apprehend him within a matter of hours before he could endanger anyone else in the area.”
Perez-Miranda has illegally entered the U.S. at least seven times and was expelled from the U.S. under Title 42 in August 2021 and removed to El Salvador in September 2009, August 2014, July 2016, March 2019, and March 2023.
Perez-Miranda has also been convicted of drug trafficking, drug possession, and twice for illegal entry while he was illegally present in the U.S.
