Four immigrant squatters arrested at their Bronx home on gun and drug charges were found to have missed their Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing appointments after being released into the United States, police said Wednesday. Became.
ICE also acknowledged that at least three of the eight Venezuelan immigrants arrested by the NYPD in the March 27 raid on an apartment complex had previous run-ins with law enforcement.
Yoesy Pino Castillo, Yohailo Martinez, Javier Alborno, and Yarvin Rosado-Muñoz, all 25, were detained by the U.S. Border Patrol in Texas from September 2022 to May 2023. , were released due to overcrowding in processing centers.
Johan Cárdenas Silva was also detained in the Lone Star State in October 2022 and ordered deported, ICE announced.
In March of the following year, an immigration judge ruled that Silva should be removed from the United States, but seven months later the 35-year-old was released from the Stewart County Detention Center with a supervision order to report to the Big Apple.
ICE said Silva arrived in New York City but failed to show up for an appointment for the removal operation.
And four others failed to show up for their procedural appointments.
Upon check-in, migrants are required to submit their asylum claims and inform authorities where they are staying. Immigration officials can then determine what level of supervision is required.
Meanwhile, Hector DeSousa Villalta, 24, who allegedly fired a pistol at someone on a property in the Bronx last Wednesday, leading to the surprising discovery of the squatter, was arrested on May 3, 2023. He was taken into custody by the U.S. Border Patrol on the same day.
According to ICE, DeSousa-Villalta was issued a summons to appear before being released on his own recognizance. He was one of three migrants previously arrested before eight Venezuelans were arrested on gun and drug charges.
Desousa-Villalta was arrested and charged with attempted murder by Yonkers police last year, but the case was later dropped because the victim did not want to cooperate, NYPD Sergeant John Chell previously said. .
Alborno had the longest rap sheet since March 2023, when the NYPD arrested him for petty theft and released him on his own recognizance.
According to ICE, he was rearrested in New Jersey in June 2023 on shoplifting charges, and the following September in New York City for second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
In January, police in Woodbridge, New Jersey, handcuffed Alborno on a shoplifting charge, and he was released on his own recognizance later that month, according to ICE.
According to ICE, Castillo was arrested in January on shoplifting charges.
ICE did not release any background information on Miguel Vermondez-Barrios, who is currently being held at Rikers. The agency issued a detention request for him and three other immigrants currently in custody in the city or Nassau County.
Three of the migrants, DeSousa-Villalta, 42-year-old Martinez, and 20-year-old Castillo, were arrested on Hull Street on Wednesday after ICE notified them that deportation proceedings would begin against the three Venezuelan nationals. was arrested again, this time by federal authorities, at the same home.
“New York City Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) is aware that eight undocumented Venezuelan nationals were recently arrested by the NYPD,” an ICE spokesperson said in a statement.
“Today, ERO NYC Fugitive Operations Officers conducted a targeted law enforcement operation at 3259 Hull Avenue in the Bronx and arrested three of eight noncitizens, all of whom are subject to removal.
“ERO NYC also filed for ICE custody of the remaining four non-citizens currently in local custody.”
Of the eight immigrants caught up in last week’s raid, only one is still in the wind after being released by a Bronx judge.
Additional reporting by Steve Janoski
