Juan Carlos Alvarez-Robles is on his way back to his native Mexico after U.S. Border Patrol agents found the decorated MS-13 gang veteran living the life in Toledo, Ohio, but he’ll likely be back soon.

It’s his sixth trip through the system.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials allege the 38-year-old started his life of crime three decades ago, racking up charges for drug dealing, grand theft auto, and other theft and burglary crimes.

“On January 23, U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Sandusky Bay Station, Detroit Sector Special Operations Detachment, and the Toledo Drug Enforcement Task Force executed a federal arrest warrant in Toledo, Ohio,” CBP announced on Tuesday. “The arrest warrant resulted in the apprehension of Juan Carlos Alvarez-Robles, a convicted MS-13 gang member who has been removed from the United States five times previously.”

CBP officials did not explain when, where or how agents apprehended Alvarez-Robles, but they did include a mugshot with his shirt off, revealing a body full of tattoos depicting guns, faith and his affiliation with MS-13.

“Alvarez … is suspected of numerous nefarious activities in the Great Lakes region,” CBP reports.

Acting Deputy Chief Patrol Agent Alan Booth said the arrest “was a perfectly executed warrant resulting in the removal of a hardened criminal from our community without incident.”

“I applaud all of the law enforcement professionals that worked on the case, resulting in making the city of Toledo a safer place,” he said.

There’s plenty of other MS-13 members in the region to pick up where Alvarez-Robles left off.

“The Department of Justice estimates the gang’s membership to exceed 50,000 members with affiliates in several urban centers in the country including Northwest Ohio,” spokesman Brian McNeal told WTOL.

Alvarez-Robles wasn’t the only MS-13 gang member arrested last week.

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Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents nabbed another MS-13 veteran from El Salvador crossing the Arizona border with Mexico with another person a little before 7 p.m. last Tuesday.

“After processing and subsequent interviews by Border Patrol agents assigned to the Yuma Sector Intelligence Unit’s Operation Denied Facilitation Action Team, Raul Ibanez-Lue, a 47-year-old male from El Salvador, admitted to being an MS-13 gang member,” CBP reports.

“Ibanez-Lue and the other individual were both processed for immigration violations.”

CBP data on apprehensions by gang affiliation show federal agents arrest far more members of MS-13 than any other gang. In fiscal year 2019, Border Patrol arrested 464 MS-13 members, a figure that accounts for nearly half of the total 976 apprehensions with gang affiliation last year.

So far in fiscal year 2020, agents have arrested 33 MS-13 members and a total of 145 illegal immigrants with gang affiliation.