Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 22

ICE Arrests 50 Aliens In NYC Operation Predator Sweep

New York—ICE agents and New York City probation officers arrested 50 criminal alien sex offenders in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan October 19 as part of “Operation Predator.”

All of those arrested are foreign-born, convicted sex offenders. Their crimes include rape, sodomy, assault with intent to cause physical injury, sexual abuse and sexual misconduct, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangerment and possessing a sexual performance by a child. The youngest of the victims was three years old.

“Predators stalk and attack the most vulnerable segments of society, our children,” said ICE Director of Investigations Marcy Forman. “Predators commit unspeakable acts that often do irreparable harm and rob the innocent of their innocence. Left on the streets predators can victimize communities time and time again. Today, we stopped these predators in their tracks, and the public safety of New York City is better off for it.”

Those arrested included:

• A 36-year-old Honduran man arrested in New York City who was previously charged with 13 counts of rape in the 3rd degree and endangering the welfare of a child. He was convicted of rape in the 3rd degree and sentenced to 10 years probation. The victim was 14-years-old at the time of the abuse, which occurred over a three-year period.
• A 37-year-old Dominican female arrested in New York City who has been convicted of sexual abuse in the 1st degree. The victim was a five-year-old.
• A 50-year-old Mexican man arrested in New York City who was previously charged with attempted sodomy in the 3rd degree, forcible touching and multiple counts of sexual abuse. The victim was a 4-year-old girl at the time of crime.

The arrests included citizens of Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad, and the Ukraine. Thirty-six of the aliens were in the country illegally and fourteen were legal permanent residents. All predators have been placed into removal proceedings and transported to various detention facilities.

Those already with final orders of removal will be deported from the country shortly and the remaining predators will have their cases heard before an immigration judge.

Forman thanked the special agents and officers from the New York ICE office from ICE’s Office of Detention and Removal Operations, the Federal Protective Service and the New York City Department of Probation for their investigations, which culminated in today’s arrests.

ICE’s Operation Predator protects children by investigating and presenting for prosecution pedophiles, Internet predators, human traffickers, international sex tourists and other predatory criminals. Since Operation Predator was launched on July 9, 2003, ICE agents have arrested nearly 6,500 child predators and sex offenders nationwide and removed more than 3,100 criminal alien predators.

ICE has a toll-free number for the public to provide leads to its enforcement team on any violations, including tips about child pornography, child sex offenders and others preying on children. The toll-free number (1-866- DHS-2ICE) is monitored 24 hours a day by officers at the ICE Law Enforcement Support Center. For more information on Operation Predator, please visit the ICE Web site at www.ice.gov.

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