A suspected Colombian gangster stopped from illegally entering the US had tattoos linking him to a dangerous drug cartel — and sickening photos on his phone of people being tortured, according to authorities.
The unidentified man was arrested while “attempting to enter the country illegally” in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday last week, Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said Wednesday along with photos of the suspect, showing his cartel-linked tattoos and a bullet necklace.
“Agents searched the subject and found photos of people being tortured on his phone,” Owens said, without elaborating.
“He also had specific tattoos indicative of gang membership,” he said — namely Clan del Golfo, also known as the Gulf Clan, Colombia’s largest cocaine trafficker.
The troubling arrest is just one of a flood of migrants with criminal backgrounds being stopped at the US border, a Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson told The Post, calling it a “daily occurrence.”
“We apprehend criminal aliens every day on the southwest border,” the rep said.
Last year, more than 35,000 migrants with criminal backgrounds were detained, according to Customs and Border Patrol statistics.
