Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 23

Cooperation Between ICE, State Dept. Leads To Arrest Of N.J. Gang Member

NEWARK, N.J.—ICE agents in New Jersey have arrested a 19-year-old member of the notorious Salvadorian 18th Street Gang in a case that highlights the close cooperation between ICE and the U.S. Department of State.

Dennis Amilcar Terezon-Zepeda was captured last week in Newark. Last summer, in El Salvador, Terezon-Zepeda applied for an immigrant visa to enter the United States, but was denied by the State Department due to his gang affiliation.

The State Department informed the ICE Attaché Office in San Salvador of Terezon-Zepeda’s failed application, raising the possibility that he would attempt to enter the country illegally and go to New Jersey. Acting on that information, ICE agents from the Newark office were able to locate Terezon-Zepeda at the house of a family member and arrest him. Terezon-Zepeda has been placed in removal proceedings and will be held in custody pending his hearing in immigration court.

The arrest of Terezon-Zepeda is part of Operation Community Shield, launched by ICE in March 2005 as a comprehensive law enforcement initiative targeting the violent criminal street gang Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13.

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