Tattooed 'Ghost Face gang member' from Georgia featured on 'America's Most Wanted' is captured in Mexico after going on the run for more than a year over drug-related charges

An alleged member of a Georgia gang was arrested in northwestern Mexico state of Sonora last weekend after being on the run for more than a year.

Alleged Ghost Face gang member David D. Young was apprehended spotted walking in the Hermosillo neighborhood of Solidaridad on Saturday and immediately captured by agents assigned to the Ministerial Criminal Investigation Agency.

The 43-year-old is facing drug trafficking conspiracy charges in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, according to the FBI.

He was turned over to Mexico’s National Institute of Migration and extradited to the United States.

David D. Young, an alleged member of the Ghost Face gang, was arrested in Hermosillo, Mexico, on Saturday, the FBI said. Young fled from Georgia after an arrest warrant in December 2022. The 43-year-old is accused of conspiring to traffic drugs

David. D. Young was indicted in Operation Ghost Busted in January 2023 and was the last of 76 defendants to be arrested after Mexican authorities intercepted him while he was walking in the northwestern city of Hermosillo  

Young, who is also known as ‘Khados,’ was the last of the 76 defendants who were indicted in Operation Ghost Busted in January 2023.

The suspects were accused of running a drug ring that distributed fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine and alprazolam in southern Georgia and northern Florida regions.

In December 2022, the Southern District of Georgia issued an arrest warrant for Young, who allegedly conspired to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute a controlled substance.

The FBI initially reported that Young had fled to Puerto Peñasco, a resort city on the Gulf of California that is popular with American visitors.

The Ghost Face gang’s roots date back to the early 2000s when it was formed in the Cobb County Jail and later branched out to other prisons across Georgia.

The criminal organization made headlines in February 2020 when five members invaded a Coweta County home, where tied a woman and shot dead her 14-year-old daughter, Haley Adam.

In 2016, imprisoned leader Jeffrey Alan Bourassa directed members to punish another member, identified as JBB. 

The gang associates held him at gunpoint and cut off his gang tattoo with a knife.