U.S. authorities have arrested a top Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS-13, leader in Dale City, Virginia, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Neighbors are shocked and law enforcement is praising the team work that brought an accused high-ranking leader of the MS-13 gang into custody in Virginia Thursday. The FBI confirmed to WUSA9 that 24-year-old Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos from El Salvador was taken into custody Thursday morning.

Neighbors were shocked following the arrest of a man thought to be a top leader of the MS-13 gang in the early hours of Thursday morning. The FBI confirmed to WUSA9 Thursday night that 24-year-old Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos from El Salvador was taken into custody.

Federal agents and local law enforcement arrested the top East Coast leader of the MS-13 street gang in Dale City early Thursday morning.

A top MS-13 gang leader was arrested in northern Virginia on Thursday. New surveillance video shared with FOX 5 shows the moments the suspect was taken into custody in an operation that had been planned for weeks.

Portsmouth police say around 5 p.m., officers were sent to the 200 block of Dale Drive for a reported shooting. There, they found a juvenile boy who had been shot.