Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 15

ICE Agents Work With Local Police; Arrest Indiana MS-13 Gang Member

MONTICELLO, Ind. — ICE officers, working with local police, arrested a member of the violent “Mara Savatrucha” (MS-13) gang here July 12.

Victor Maravel, 28, a national of El Salvador, was arrested at his girlfriend’s residence in Monticello. Maravel is an admitted member of the violent MS-13 street gang, and is in the U.S. illegally. He has a criminal history that includes convictions for public intoxication, resisting law enforcement and operating a vehicle without a license.

Working on a tip, ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) officers attempted to arrest Maravel at his brother’s residence in Monticello. Unable to locate him, ICE exchanged information with the Monticello Police Department, which encountered Maravel later that day at his girlfriend’s house and turned him over to ICE.

Maravel, who has an outstanding final order of removal against him, will remain in ICE custody until he’s deported to El Salvador.

“Street gangs threaten the safety of our communities,” said ICE DRO Field Office Director Deborah Achim, who oversees ICE DRO in a six-state area that includes Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas and Missouri. “ICE is aggressively targeting MS-13 gang members with the ultimate goal of removing them from the United States.” Achim said.

Maravel’s arrest is part of Operation Community Shield, an ICE national anti-gang initiative launched in March to target members of the MS-13 gang. To date, ICE agents, working with federal, state and local law enforcement partners, have arrested more than 400 MS-13 members nationwide. The vast majority of those arrested so far have been placed into removal proceedings.

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