An unlawful migrant from Guatemala has been arrested and convicted of assault and battery on a baby underneath the age of 14, the Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO) Boston introduced on Tuesday.
Officers stated on Feb. 21, ERO Boston arrested a 34-year-old Guatemala nationwide, who was just lately convicted of sexual assault on a baby.
“This particular person represented a dire menace to the residents of Massachusetts,” stated ERO Boston Subject Workplace Director Todd M. Lyons. “Unlawfully current, convicted intercourse offenders shouldn’t be given the chance to re-offend. The sufferer of his crimes deserves higher from our justice system. The women and men of ERO Boston will proceed to guard our communities from such threats.”
The person, who was not named, was arrested within the North Shore metropolis of Gloucester, and had been launched by the Gloucester District Court docket, regardless of ERO Boston having filed an immigration detainer in opposition to him, in response to officers.
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Officers consider the 34-year-old unlawfully entered the USA in April 2011 at an unknown location, and with out being inspected or admitted by a U.S. immigration official. He was later detained and arrested in December 2023.
The 34-year-old citizen of Guatemala was convicted in January of indecent assault and battery on a baby underneath the age of 14, and a separate offense of assault and battery, in Gloucester District Court docket, officers acknowledged.
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He was ordered by the courtroom to register as a intercourse offender with the state intercourse offender registry. Nevertheless, the courtroom ignored ERO Boston’s immigration detainer and launched him again into the group.
Deportation officers with ERO Boston re-arrested the Guatemalan nationwide with out incident Feb. 21 in Gloucester, the place he’ll stay in ICE custody pending removing proceedings earlier than a federal immigration choose with the Justice Division’s Government Workplace for Immigration Evaluation (EOIR).
Officers stated the seize of the Guatemalan intercourse offender was among the many arrests that ERO Boston made as a part of ICE’s latest coordinated nationwide immigration enforcement effort.
Through the nationwide operation, deportation officers from ERO subject places of work throughout the U.S. apprehended 275 unlawfully current non-citizen intercourse offenders throughout a nationwide regulation enforcement effort that ran for a number of weeks beginning Feb. 5.