ERO Boston Acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde described the crimes the unnamed migrant is accused of committing as “extremely serious and disturbing” saying, “He attempted to hide out in Massachusetts and escape the law in his home country. He posed a substantial threat to the residents of Martha’s Vineyard.”
The suspect’s long history with immigration authorities began when U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended the Salvadoran fugitive on November 27, 1994, after he unlawfully entered the United States near Harlingen, Texas. He was issued a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge but was released from custody.
On June 21, 1995, a DOJ immigration judge ordered the Salvadoran noncitizen removed from the United States to El Salvador in absentia. In 2003, the migrant was convicted of disorderly conduct and sentenced to a fine and court costs in Portland, Maine. Six years later, the migrant was encountered in the Boston area and was arrested by ICE ERO officers in 2009 in Framingham and released on an order of supervision.
ERO Boston placed the Salvadoran noncitizen into the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program and issued a departure plan. However, the Salvadoran national violated the terms of the ATD program, according to ICE. Officers from ERO Boston again apprehended the Salvadoran national May 18, 2010, and removed the migrant from the United States to El Salvador on June 20, 2011.