CALEXICO, Calif. – U.S. Border Patrol agents in the El Centro Sector nabbed a previously deported MS-13 gang member as he attempted to sneak back into the United States on Saturday.

Border Patrol agents arrested David Ernesto Pacheco, a 44-year-old from El Salvador and member of the notorious MS-13 gang, around 4:25 p.m. as he crossed into the U.S. about 25 miles east of the California’s Calexico West Port of Entry, according to a release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Pancheo, a convicted felon, is now locked up at Imperial County Jail awaiting prosecution.

If he’s deported, there’s a good chance he’ll be back soon. MS-13 has a long documented track record of moving members, drugs, guns, and just about anything they want across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Earlier this month, police in Alexandria, Virginia announced the arrests of three MS-13 gang members – an adult male, a 17-year-old male and a 16-year-old female – will be charged in the killing of a 24-year-old man who was brutally killed and discovered near a playground in November, Fox 5 DC reports.

An 18-year-old MS-13 member, Edwin Alexander Guerreo Umana, is also charged with murdering of a 22-year-old man in Alexandria in December.

“… The intensity and the violence has risen a great deal in the last couple of years,” Alexandria Police Chief Earl Cook told the news site. “We unfortunately had two of the victims here in Alexandria die because of the violence.”

In Charlotte, North Carolina, prosecutors are sifting through the cases of 37 alleged MS-13 gang members and associates rounded up in Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations case, WSOC reports.

In a plea agreement for one of the suspects, Funes Rivera, authorities contend the gang’s initiation process required a member to “shoot the first black guy that passed,” and left one victim near death in 2013.

Breitbart points out the recent apparent resurgence of MS-13 activity in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and other places, as well.

The Los Angeles Times reported on the gang’s exploitation of the U.S. immigration system as early as 2005, and noted at the time that many are repeat offenders. One member was deported four times, and twice in one year.

Over the last decade, MS-13 gang members have plotted to murder Immigration and Customs Agents, murdered small children and their mothers, and faced federal prosecution for racketeering, extortion, prostitution, kidnapping, money laundering, murder, as well as a variety of human, arms, and drug trafficking charges, according to numerous news reports.

And the problems with the nation’s porous border isn’t limited to MS-13. U.S. Border Patrol agents last week arrested previously deported Sureno gang member Luis Armando Barrera Espinoza, 27, after he crossed into the U.S., according to a Jan. 19 U.S. Customs and Border Protection news release.