News Releases and Statements

ICE San Diego officers arrested an illegal alien from Mexico Aug. 11 who has been deported from the United States twice and has a prior conviction for driving under the influence.

Rolando Ico-Choc, 30, was arrested repeatedly for driving under the influence and other serious offenses, including endangering the life of a child, domestic battery, resisting law enforcement, multiple DUIs, and operating uninsured vehicles. Despite his repeated disregard for the law and continued danger to the public, local jurisdictions were unable to transfer him to federal custody, due to irresponsible sanctuary laws.

ICE deported Yimi Samario Sevilla Leon, a 30-year-old foreign fugitive and the alleged leader of an ultra-violent faction of the18th Street gang known as “El Mango” from the United States Aug. 11.

ICE removed a convicted Burkinabe coup leader from the United States following his arrest by ICE Detroit agents and officers in Cincinnati.

ICE San Antonio lodged an immigration detainer against Jose Fredi Rivera-Mejia aka Wilfredo Lopez, 44, a criminal illegal alien from Honduras Aug. 11, who was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Three violent MS-13 members with 14 attempted murder charges between them are behind bars after being arrested by ICE New York City, the Nassau County Police Department and the FBI.

ICE, in collaboration with federal law enforcement partners, arrested Quoc Bo Pham and Dung Quoc Pham, both Vietnamese nationals, July 22 in Westminster.

An investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations New England led to the Aug. 6 arrest of Connor McAuliffe, a 34-year-old emergency medical technician, for allegedly receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material.

Miguel Angel Guevara-Murillo was arrested Aug. 4 and charged by criminal complaint with possession of a document-making implement after he allegedly told investigators he used the equipment to make counterfeit state identification documents, which he sold for $250 to people who sought to work as DoorDash drivers.

Davon Mitchell was sentenced July 28 to serve 20 years in prison after he admitted to distributing fentanyl that resulted in the overdose deaths of two individuals; and selling fentanyl that resulted in the non-fatal overdose of another individual on three occasions.

Among those arrested were convicted murderers, child predators, thieves, and arsonists and an alien who illegally entered the US 40 times.

Matthew Ozol, 39, of Jersey City, was charged with one count of possession of child pornography at the U.S. District Court in Newark. HSI Newark executed a search warrant at Ozol’s residence and recovered at least 26 images and videos of child sexual abuse material.

HSI personnel arrested Dennis Costa, 66, on July 29 at his residence in Fall River.

HSI personnel arrested Eynar Estuardo Vielman Jimenez, 38, on Aug. 2 in West Roxbury.

ICE agencies in Newark arrested an additional four illegally present child predators since July 21, making a total of eight arrests in an ongoing effort targeting illegal aliens with histories of child exploitation.

Juan Carlos Padilla Santos, a Dominican national with prior murder and narcotics convictions, was sentenced to 100 months in prison after an investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations New York uncovered he had illegally reentered the United States despite having been previously deported twice and having been the subject of a third removal order.

An ICE Homeland Security Task Force in Orlando arrested Guillermo Perez Alzate, a confessed murderer and criminal alien from Colombia. Perez is a former paramilitary leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a transnational criminal organization that uses drugs to finance its illegal activities.

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, in close coordination with U.S. and international law enforcement partners, has successfully dismantled critical infrastructure used by BlackSuit ransomware, a major cybercriminal operation and successor to Royal ransomware, responsible for attacks on essential services around the world. The operation resulted in the seizures of servers, domains and digital assets used to deploy ransomware, extort victims, and launder proceeds.

Chaofeng Ge, a 32-year-old citizen of China in ICE custody, passed away at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center on Aug. 5.

An investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations New York, in coordination with its law enforcement partners, led a Long Island woman to plead guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the United States by obstructing the Federal Election Commission’s administration of campaign finance laws July 30.

ICE, with assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations, the U.S. Border Patrol, and state and local law enforcement, arrested 42 illegal aliens Aug. 5 during an operation in Southeast Houston targeting criminal aliens and other egregious immigration offenders.

ICE arrested six illegal aliens this past week in the Houston area who, as a group, have illegally entered the U.S. an astounding 42 times and been convicted of 48 criminal offenses.

ICE removed Romulus Mihai, an illegally present, 33-year-old Belgian fugitive convicted of sexual exploitation of a child in his native country, and turned him over to Belgian authorities July 31.

On June 11, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 53 gang members from the municipality of San Juan with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, possession and distribution of controlled substances, and firearms violations.

ICE arrested Dominican national and illegal alien Bean Gomez-Cepeda July 2, after a U.S. Magistrate Judge issued a warrant against him for assaulting federal agents. He was charged with resisting, opposing or impeding federal agents with a dangerous weapon and hitting a government vehicle with his own vehicle.