A decade after the original deportation order, ICE finally catches the MS-13 criminal

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently arrested an MS-13 member who had been ordered deported and was convicted of a felony, the agency said Thursday.

The 24-year-old citizen of El Salvador entered the United States illegally in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as an unaccompanied child in June 2014. seconds to ICE. Federal authorities gave him a future court date and transferred him to ICE and later to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which released him in July 2014 to his mother who lived in Rockville, Maryland .

An immigration judge ordered his removal from the United States in August 2014 when he failed to appear in court, according to ICE.

In November 2016, the Montgomery County Police Department arrested the illegal alien, charging him with assault and weapons violations, according to ICE. Montgomery County District Court sent the charges to juvenile court, and on March 7, 2017, Homeland Security Investigations confirmed his affiliation with MS-13, which slogan is “kill, rape, control”.

Montgomery County police arrested the individual again in January 2022, charging him with firearms violations, according to ICE. He was later convicted in Montgomery County Circuit Court of unlawful possession of a firearm, and sentenced to five years in prison and three years of probation, but the court suspended four years of his sentence to jail and dismissed his remaining charges.

ICE arrested the illegal alien on Jan. 10 at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland, and he will remain in federal custody pending deportation, the agency said.

“This Salvadoran non-citizen posed a significant threat to the residents of our Maryland communities,” ICE Enforcement and Removal (ERO) Baltimore Field Office Director Darius Reeves said Thursday in a communicated ER is responsible for the detention and deportation of illegal aliens in the country.

“Not only is he a proven member of a notorious street gang, but he also showed a willingness to illegally carry a firearm in public. ERO Baltimore will continue to prioritize public safety by removing these threats from our streets,” add Reeves.

Border Patrol agents identified 312 MS-13 members who illegally entered the US nationwide in fiscal year 2022, 178 in fiscal year 2023 and 10 between October 2023 and November 2023 . seconds to agency statistics.

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