Eric Alberto Lucero, also known as “Rockero”, a member of the Salvadoran MS 13 gang, was caught in Belize and handed over to Guatemalan police, before being transferred to El Salvador.

by Charles Gladden

BELIZE CITY, Wed. Aug. 24, 2022

Last Monday, Eric Alberto Lucero, a member of the MS13, one of the most dangerous gangs in all of Central America, was found in Belize, and was thereafter handed over to Guatemalan police at the Benque/Melchor border, before being transferred to El Salvador, where he was immediately placed in jail.

Lucero, also known as “Rockero,” who is suspected of carrying out notably vicious crimes in El Salvador and has been labeled a “terrrorist” by that country’s authorities, was stopped last Monday by Belizean law authorities who observed some striking tattoos on Lucero that were particularly menacing in appearance, and decided to run a quick search in the law enforcement database. They then found out that Lucero was wanted in El Salvador.

Belizean authorities thus communicated with their Salvadoran police counterparts, and last Thursday, members of the Belize Police Department and the Immigration Department handed him over to Guatemalan police at the western border. Lucero was then handed over to the Transnational Anti-Gang Center of El Salvador.

PNC El Salvador, the local police department in El Salvador, posted on social media that Lucero is known as an MS 13 terrorist and will be held in custody until his trial. The Salvadoran police department added that Lucero could be imprisoned for up to 30 years.