News Releases and Statements

ICE's ERO Boston removed Adrian Patricio Huerta-Nivelo, a 25-year-old Ecuadoran national wanted for questioning following the rape of a minor, invasion of privacy and a violation of exit prohibition in his home country, on Dec. 3.

ICE's ERO Dallas Field Office arrested Ricardo Ernesto Nunez, an unlawfully present 60-year-old citizen of El Salvador, Nov. 29.

ICE's ERO arrested Salvador Castro Garcia, 46, after the Brockton District Court released him on bail Nov. 21. Castro, a Honduran national who also goes by the name Jose Luis Sanchez-Cruz, is accused of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and assault and battery.

Officers from ICE's ERO Boston arrested Christian Maximo Castaneda Negrete, 46, on Dec. 3, after the Hartford Police Department released him on bond for pending sexual assault charges.

ICE's ERO Manchester arrested Mikhail Sebastian, an Indonesian national who’s been accused of sexually assaulting a New Hampshire child, Nov. 29.

ICE's ERO Boston removed Julio Cesar Hernandez Funez, 41, to Honduras Nov. 18. Hernandez, who’s also known as Rodas and Flores Najera, unlawfully entered the United States multiple times.

Those included removal flights to Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, and Mexico.

ERO Chicago removed an unlawfully present noncitizen wanted by law enforcement authorities in Honduras for murder.

ICE's ERO Philadelphia Field Office removed Guilherme Rodrigues Silva Rocha, a citizen of Brazil with a final order of removal, to Brazil on Nov. 22. Rodrigues is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in Brazil after a conviction for bodily injury performed against a woman, for reason of sexual condition.

ICE's ERO Philadelphia removed Jonathan Javier Arequipa Montesdeoca, a citizen of Ecuador with a final order of removal, to Ecuador Nov. 26. Arequipa is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in Ecuador for attempted murder.

ICE's ERO Baltimore apprehended Darwin Reynadi Cruz-Rosa, 25, an unlawfully present Salvadoran noncitizen convicted of second-degree conspiracy to commit murder Nov. 25.

ERO Seattle removed Mohammad Hasan Abdellatif Albana, 41, with ties to terrorism Nov. 15, to his home country of Jordan.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement today updated its Enforcement and Removal Operations statistics page with data from the second and third quarters of fiscal year 2024. In the third quarter, ICE removed nearly 68,000 individual noncitizens — almost 1,000 more than in the second quarter. This reflects a 69% increase over removals during the third quarter in fiscal year 2023, and is more than 140% of ICE removals for all fiscal year 2023.

ICE's ERO arrested Felix Meletz Guarcas, 45, a Guatemalan national accused of sexually assaulting a child in Rhode Island.

ICE's ERO Boston arrested Julio Esteban Batista-Castillo, 24, in Boston Nov. 18. The Roxbury District Court in Boston had arraigned him that same day on multiple assault and battery charges, kidnapping, malicious destruction of property, breaking and entering and home invasion before releasing him.

ICE ERO Houston, with assistance from ERO El Salvador and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement Task Force, removed Silas Otoniel Zamora-Hernandez, a 49-year-old unlawfully present Salvadoran fugitive from the United States Nov. 22.

ICE ERO Buffalo arrested Christopher Alexsandro Dos Santos on Nov. 20. Dos Santos is a 28-year-old citizen and national of Brazil subject to a final order of removal. An immigration judge in Buffalo ordered him removed in absentia from the United States to Brazil on Nov. 8, 2023.

Those included removal flights to Brazil, Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Liberia, Mauritania, Mexico, and Peru.

ICE ERO Boston arrested Jose Luis Castro Jovel, a 24-year-old Salvadoran national and confirmed MS-13 gang member, Nov. 12. ERO Boston lodged an immigration detainer with the Northampton District Court asking for notification before Castro’s release, but the court declined to honor it.

Baez — also known as Grullon Antonio, Johan, Moniker and Albin — unlawfully entered the United States on an unknown date, at an unknown location, without inspection or parole by an immigration official.

ICE ERO Boston arrested Belardis Tapia Gonzalez, a Dominican national charged with second-degree child molestation-sexual assault in Rhode Island, Nov. 18. Tapia unlawfully entered the United States around July 2021.

ICE ERO Boston arrested Alexandre Romao De Oliveira Nov. 18 in Methuen. De Oliveira, 41, is a Brazilian foreign fugitive convicted of rape of a child in Brazil.

ICE ERO Boston arrested Mynor Stiven De Paz-Munoz, 21, an unlawfully present Guatemalan national charged in Massachusetts with rape of child by force, rape of a child, and indecent assault and battery against a minor, Nov. 12 in Great Barrington.

ICE ERO Boston arrested a 42-year-old Colombian charged in Massachusetts with rape of a child by force, statutory rape, and aggravated rape against a minor. Officers with ERO Boston arrested Billy Erney Buitrago-Bustos Nov. 15 in Pittsfield.

ICE ERO officers in New York City arrested Andres Fernando Arroyave Ramirez, a 36-year-old Colombian citizen, Nov. 15. He had been previously convicted of conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine by the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida.