Bayron Wuifredo Santos-Recarte, a 27-year-old MS-13 member and Honduran national unlawfully present in the United States, was sentenced to 147 months in prison for kidnapping a federal witness in Nashville on November 5, 2023. The victim, who had previously testified against MS-13 members in a racketeering trial, was abducted at gunpoint from a laundromat parking lot and tortured for hours with firearms, hammers, and machetes, sustaining fractured bones, internal bleeding, and a kidney injury. Santos-Recarte pleaded guilty in December 2024 and will be deported following completion of his sentence.

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