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March 28, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal, Narcotics

WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers apprehended 216 unlawfully present noncitizens who have been convicted of drug trafficking or multiple drug possession related offenses involving methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, or synthetic drugs, during a nation-wide law enforcement effort that ran from March 11 - 26, 2024.

March 28, 2024
|Statement
Communities around the country benefit when law enforcement agencies cooperate across all jurisdictions whether federal, state, or local.
March 27, 2024
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking, Child Exploitation
Partnerships with foundations like Operation Light Shine will allow law enforcement agencies to better serve Northeast Florida communities and the many victims of human trafficking.
March 25, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston removed Yael Gonzales-Mejia from the United States to Italy March 6.
March 25, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
On March 1, in Mobile, Alabama, ERO New Orleans arrested a Honduran foreign fugitive wanted for murder in his home country.
March 25, 2024
|Transnational Gangs, Enforcement and Removal
On March 20, ERO New York City arrested an unlawfully present citizen of Colombia and suspected member of a transnational organized criminal enterprise known as a South American Theft Group.
March 25, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal, Transnational Gangs
ERO Chicago arrested Adelvis Rodriguez-Carmona, an unlawfully present citizen of Venezuela and member of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization.
March 25, 2024
|Human Rights Violators
ERO Philadelphia removed Angel Anibal Alvarado Benitez, a citizen of El Salvador with a final order of removal, on March 22. Alvarado Benitez, 75, is wanted by law enforcement authorities in El Salvador for murder and other crimes.
March 25, 2024
|Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives
Gerardo Rafael Perez Jr. aka “Jerry,” 23, Luis Matias Leal aka “Wicho” aka “Poncho” aka “El Tio,” 30, Antonio Osiel Casarez, 26, Francisco Alejandro Benavides aka “Frankie,” 23, and Mark Anthony Trevino Jr., 24, all were charged in an indictment for one count of conspiracy to traffic firearms, which carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison, and one count of conspiracy to straw purchase firearms with a maximum penalty of 25 years of imprisonment.
March 25, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Baltimore arrested an unlawfully present 30-year-old Nigerian national convicted in 2013 of armed robbery in Maryland.
March 22, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component agency of the Department of Homeland Security, working in close coordination across the Department including with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), continued to facilitate removal flights of single adults, family units, March 18 – March 22.
March 22, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Newark arrested a Brazilian national on March 19 in Newark, New Jersey, who is wanted in Brazil to serve a 17-year, 4 month prison sentence for intentional murder and attempted murder.
March 21, 2024
|Human Rights Violators
Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, a/k/a Eric Tabaro Nshimiyimana, 52, of Uniontown, Ohio, has been charged in a criminal complaint with falsifying, concealing and covering up a material fact by trick, scheme or device, obstruction of justice, and perjury following an investigation by HSI New England special agents.
March 21, 2024
|Narcotics
Jacob Andrew Mendoza, 37, from Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico was sentenced to 420 months in prison for importing and possessing methamphetamines.
March 21, 2024
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
U.S. District Judge Alia Moses imposed the following sentences on four defendants: Eva Maria Galeas, 43, was sentenced to 180 months in prison and Lisa Marie Ortega, 25, was sentenced to 156 months in prison. Both are from San Antonio, Texas; Sandra Galeas-Mejia, 48, from Mexico was sentenced to 84 months in prison; and Norma Galeas-Mejia, 52, from Honduras, was sentenced to 78 months. Judge Moses also ordered the forfeiture of $603,593, which was discovered in a safe during the home search of Roberto Galeas-Mejia, Eva Maria Galeas and Lisa Marie Ortega. Additionally, Galeas and Ortega were assessed money judgement in the amounts of $97,668 and $21,388, respectively.
March 20, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
On Feb. 25, 2024, the BPSO, Bossier City, Louisiana, arrested the noncitizen for driving while intoxicated, being an unlicensed driver and expired vehicle registration. The next day, the ERO New Orleans Criminal Apprehension Program identified the individual as a previously removed noncitizen wanted for murder in Honduras.
March 20, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal, Narcotics
ERO Philadelphia removed Anthony Eduardo Murillo Oliva, a citizen of Honduras, with a final order of removal, to Honduras on March 18.
March 20, 2024
|Child Exploitation
Steven Lee Carty, 55, of Live Oak, was previously convicted of possessing, receiving and distributing child sex abuse images and has been ordered to pay $19,000 in restitution to his victims. 
March 20, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal, Narcotics
On March 18, ERO New York City arrested an unlawfully present citizen of Colombia convicted of conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute one kilogram and more of heroin.
March 19, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston arrested an unlawfully present Brazilian national wanted in his home country for failing to complete a 19-year prison sentence for an armed robbery conviction.
March 19, 2024
|Financial Crimes
HSI Jacksonville, CCSO, the FHP – Bureau of Criminal Investigations and Intelligence and IRS-CI, determined Christopher Leo Daragjati, of Middleburg, Florida, frequently obtained PII, including the Social Security numbers of multiple victims, to apply for U.S. SBA's PPP loan forgiveness program, as well as fraudulently file multiple tax returns in different stolen identities.
March 19, 2024
|Contraband
Savannah Nicole Valdez, a 21-year-old resident of Houston, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to 15 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by three years of supervised release.
March 19, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
County executives and ERO Baltimore leadership agreed on Feb. 27 to cooperate on apprehending and removing violent noncitizen offenders from Montgomery County communities.
March 19, 2024
|Child Exploitation
Rayvon Birden, 26, of Raleigh, North Carolina, entered the guilty plea on March 13 at the U.S. District Court in Charlottesville, Virginia.
March 19, 2024
|Contraband
Kenneth Fleming and Akua Mosaics, Inc. (“Akua Mosaics”) pleaded guilty March 19 to a conspiracy to smuggle goods into the United States in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371 and 545, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
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