News Releases and Statements

On Aug. 12, ICE officers arrested Michael Kabiona and Noe Alberto Flores Sandoval — both convicted of heinous felonies against innocent children.

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.

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 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.

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

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, 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.

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.

Mario Torrez-Lopez, 34, of Mexico, is a self-admitted member of the Sureños gang and has been deported from the United States four times — in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022. Despite these removals, Torrez-Lopez illegally returned each time and continued to engage in criminal behavior across multiple states.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia and Homeland Security Investigations Philadelphia, IRS Philadelphia and ATF Philadelphia arrested Silvestre Herrera-Vasquez, a 48-year-old citizen of Mexico, in Malvern July 28.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia removed Olvin Mauricio Martinez Coto, a citizen of Honduras with a final order of removal, to Honduras July 23. Martinez Coto is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in Honduras for aggravated femicide, attempted homicide, and forcible entry to a home.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia, Homeland Security Investigations Philadelphia and IRS Philadelphia arrested Oscar Adalberto Penate, a 56-year-old citizen of El Salvador, in Pottstown July 27.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Maine arrested an illegally present Jamaican offender after he unlawfully attempted to purchase a firearm.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 214 illegal aliens for immigration offenses in the Houston area in the past six months who have been charged or convicted of a sex offense involving a minor.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Buffalo arrested Wahota Allassane Ouattara upon his release from the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in Comstock July 23. The 38-year-old illegal alien from the Côte d'Ivoire has an extensive criminal history that includes nine convictions in the United States, including arson and assault.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Buffalo arrested Salvadoran national Jacobo Argueta Fuentes pursuant to a warrant of deportation upon his release from the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision July 23 in Ossining.

Arsenio Valladares, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien July 7 at the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.