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Shelby Township police arrested a suspected terrorist from the MS-13 gang organization, the department said Tuesday.

Police conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle near West Utica Road and Dequindre Road about noon on Dec. 5. The driver presented an identification card from El Salvador to the officer.

A records check then “identified the driver, Walter Ceron Linares, as a possible member of a terrorist organization, with instructions to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” police said in a news release.

The FBI was immediately contacted and confirmed that Linares was a suspected MS-13 gang member currently on their terrorist watch list. He was taken into custody without incident and held until the U.S. Border Patrol Detroit station ar

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