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March 11, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
The new building will replace four dormitories that were built when the ICE-owned facility was established in 1966. It will hold 216 people; the El Paso Processing Center has the capacity to hold 840 detainees.
March 8, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Those included removal flights to Albania, Georgia, Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Romania and Uzbekistan.
March 8, 2024
|Partnership and Engagement
Born out of tragedy, the Bridegan Foundation has presented the 50th Bexley Box to HSI Jacksonville special agents and task force officers with the child exploitation group.
March 8, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Baltimore arrested an unlawfully present Guatemalan national convicted of a 2021 assault on a Maryland resident. Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Criminal Apprehension Program apprehended the 37-year-old noncitizen March 4 outside of his residence in Lanham.
March 8, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE ERO Houston, with assistance from ERO Honduras and SAFE in Honduras, removed Jorge Munoz Pineda, a 32-year-old unlawfully present Honduran national, from the United States on March 8. Munoz is wanted in Honduras for homicide.
March 8, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal, Child Exploitation
ICE ERO Chicago arrested 28 noncitizens with sex offense convictions during a nationwide law enforcement effort that netted 275 noncitizen sex offenders. The operation ran from Feb. 5 to Feb. 16.
March 8, 2024
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Tony Cardenas, 36, of Phoenix, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens for profit and conspiracy to commit money laundering on Nov. 17, 2023.
March 8, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
During this operation, ERO St. Paul used an intelligence-driven enforcement model to target noncitizens who have committed egregious sex crimes while in violation our nation’s immigration laws.
March 8, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston apprehended the 23-year-old Honduran national Feb. 27 in Providence, Rhode Island.
March 8, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Joaquin Villalobos Navarro, 54, was turned over to Mexican authorities at the border in Brownsville, Texas, Feb. 28.
March 8, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
An immigration detainer is a request from ICE to state or local law enforcement agencies to notify ICE as early as possible before a removable noncitizen is released, allowing ERO to assume custody for possible removal to the subject’s home country in accordance with federal law.
March 8, 2024
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Cesar Daniel Hernandez-Ortiz, 23, and Angel Gabriel Lopez-Alvarado, 18, remain in federal custody charged with human smuggling. The men, both Mexican nationals unlawfully present in the United States, and 25 undocumented noncitizens were discovered in a stash house in the 200 block of Sofia Place in the Lower Valley.
March 8, 2024
|Partnership and Engagement
Thomas Evans, the firearms, defensive tactics and taser instructor for ERO Miami’s Tampa field office, took the top spot in the Pistol Caliber Carbine, C-class during the 2024 U.S. Practical Shooting Association’s Florida State Championships, outshooting 20 other shooters in his class.
March 7, 2024
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
If convicted, Michael Andrew Milano, 42, of Merritt Island, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for each count.
March 7, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal, Narcotics, Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives
Leonard Mnela, a citizen of Albania with a final order of removal, is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in Italy for criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, attempted extortion, firearms violation, drug trafficking, drug importing and drug selling.
March 7, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE ERO Baltimore arrested eight noncitizens with sex offense convictions during a nationwide law enforcement effort that netted 275 noncitizen sex offenders. The nationwide operation ran from Feb. 5 to Feb. 16.
March 7, 2024
|Statement
This engagement marks the second meeting between the two organizations since the beginning of the calendar year.
March 7, 2024
|Financial Crimes
Michael Akame Ngwese Ay Makoge’s co-conspirator, Christian Malik Adrea, 26, of Mitchellville, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft Feb. 26 for his role in the fraud scheme.
March 7, 2024
|Transnational Gangs, Organized Crime
Bayron Santos-Recarte, a 25-year-old Honduran national, was charged in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.
March 7, 2024
|Child Exploitation
The court also sentenced Dominic Lawrence Carsi, 34, Naples, to a term of supervised release for life and ordered him to register as a sex offender. Carsi pleaded guilty Oct. 31, 2023.
March 7, 2024
|Narcotics
Juan Carlos Perlaza Caicedo aka Olindo Perlaza Caicedo aka Gafas, 45, of Colombia pleaded guilty to producing and transporting several tons of cocaine from Colombia to Central America beginning in at least 2002.
March 7, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal, Child Exploitation
ERO New York City Fugitive Operations officers apprehended 32 unlawfully present noncitizens convicted of sex offenses during a nationwide law enforcement effort from Feb. 5 to Feb. 16.
March 7, 2024
|Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives, Narcotics
If convicted, Reginald Dugger, 42, of Orlando, faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison for the drug offense and up to 15 years in federal prison for the firearm offense.
March 6, 2024
|Narcotics
A superseding indictment was partially unsealed in the Southern District of California March 5 charging alleged drug trafficker Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta, 22, with murdering two people to prevent them from testifying in drug trafficking cases in federal court in San Diego.
March 6, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston arrested an unlawfully present, 30-year-old convicted sex offender Feb. 12 in Barnstable.
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