Inside ICE: Volume 3, Issue 1

ICE Fugitive Op Nets MS-13 Gang Member Wanted For Murder

MIDLAND PARK, N.J.—A man wanted by authorities in El Salvador for murder is behind bars following his arrest on January 12 by the ICE Newark Fugitive Operations Team.

Newark Detention and Removal officers arrested 25-year-old Rene Hugo Mejia Juarez in a pre-dawn operation. Mejia was located following a brief but intensive investigation.

When ICE officers knocked on the door of the house Mejia was in, he attempted to flee through a side entrance but was apprehended. The Midland Park Police Department and the United States Marshals Service assisted in the operation.

Mejia is the subject of an Interpol warrant for a murder committed in El Salvador. “Apprehending and removing violent alien gang members from the United States is a priority for ICE,” said Field Office Director Raymond Simonse. “In the last 11 months ICE has arrested more than 1,800 gang members, including 805 MS-13. The message is loud and clear: Those who were once the hunters are now the hunted.”

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