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April 25, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston apprehended an unlawfully present Guatemalan national recently arrested for first-degree sexual assault in Hartford April 18. The 53-year-old Guatemalan native has multiple criminal convictions in New York and Connecticut for offenses including second-degree strangulation, driving while intoxicated and domestic assault.
April 25, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Baltimore arrested a Salvadoran national convicted of accessory to murder and weapons charges in Baltimore.
April 25, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO New York City’s Fugitive Operations Team apprehended Brayan Freites-Macias, 21, near his residence in New York City on April 24.
April 24, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
U.S. Border Patrol apprehended the Ecuadoran national in May 2015, after he unlawfully entered the United States in Texas without authorization.
April 24, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston arrested the 30-year-old Ecuadoran national April 4 at his residence in Worcester.
April 24, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Washington, D.C. apprehended a Honduran national charged locally for sex crimes against a Virginia minor. Deportation officers from ERO Washington’s Mobile Criminal Apprehension Team arrested the 30-year-old Honduran noncitizen April 15 at his residence in Bladensburg, Maryland.
April 22, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Luis Enrique Villalpando Villagomez, 28, departed from Las Vegas, Nevada, and arrived at California’s San Ysidro Port of Entry, where officials transferred him into the custody of authorities from Mexico.
April 22, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Nilson Doblado Doblado, 47, departed from Las Vegas, Nevada, and arrived at the San Pedro Sula airport in Honduras, where he was handed over to authorities.
April 22, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston apprehended an unlawfully present Brazilian national who has been charged in Worcester with assault and weapons charges.
April 19, 2024
|Detainee Death Notifications
Consistent with ICE protocols, the appropriate components were notified about the death, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Inspector General, and the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility.
April 19, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Those included removal flights to Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico and Peru. If a noncitizen arrives and has no legal basis to remain in the United States they will be processed and removed quickly, consistent with U.S. law.
April 19, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston’s Hartford field office arrested the 26-year-old Honduran national in New Britain April 4. Local officials ignored an ICE immigration detainer and released him from the Hartford Correctional Center.
April 18, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston apprehended an unlawfully present Colombian national wanted for premeditated murder in his native country. 
April 18, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston removed Thiago Marcos Silva Souza, 34, from the United States to Brazil March 22.
April 18, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston removed Yerson Enrique Chiriboga Hinestrosa, 38, to Bogota, via air.
April 18, 2024
|Statement
As one of its private detention contractors, it is imperative for the agency to engage with valued partners to ensure continued understanding of our changing mission space and the shared responsibility of appropriate care for those in custody.
April 17, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO arrested a Romanian national April 5 wanted in their home country for kidnapping.
April 17, 2024
|Detainee Death Notifications
Consistent with ICE protocols, the appropriate components were notified about the death, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General and the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility.
April 17, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Baltimore apprehended a Salvadoran national and validated member of the notorious MS-13 street gang who was convicted in Maryland of conspiracy, armed robbery and weapons charges.
April 17, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston removed Altair Jose Portuense-Lana, 51, via a flight to Brazil March 22.
April 16, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
Deportation officers from ERO Boston’s Hartford suboffice arrested the 25-year-old Jamaican national April 3, after he was previously released by the Connecticut Department of Corrections despite the existence of an active federal immigration detainer seeking his custody.
April 16, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE ERO officers in the Denver area of operations covering Colorado and Wyoming apprehended nine unlawfully present noncitizens who violated the conditions of their release in the ATD program during a local operation April 1-5.
April 15, 2024
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston arrested a Brazilian national charged with raping a Massachusetts minor. Deportation officers from ERO Boston apprehended the 20-year-old Brazilian noncitizen March 28 near his residence in Lowell.
April 15, 2024
|Child Exploitation
HSI San Juan special agents arrested Luis Javier Perez-Badillo, a 49-year-old man from Aguadilla, whom a federal grand jury indicted April 10.
April 15, 2024
|Financial Crimes, Document and Benefit Fraud
If convicted, Gary Dale Thrasher, 56, faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on the bank fraud counts, a maximum of 10 years of imprisonment for the passport fraud offenses, and a two-year minimum mandatory term of imprisonment for aggravated identity theft.  
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