U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested eight undocumented Venezuelan immigrants at the southern border who were arrested last week after being found with drugs and guns in a New York City home and have been released into the United States. It was announced that one of them was suspected of murder. Officials announced this on Wednesday.
Immigration authorities re-arrested three of the squatters on Wednesday and filed detention requests for four others in local custody, ICE told Fox News. One person remains at large.
New York police arrested immigrants on March 27 after authorities were called to a report of a person with a gun at an apartment in the Bronx, police said.
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Eight illegal immigrants were found squatting in an apartment in the Bronx, New York, and are facing weapons charges. All were previously captured at the southern border and released, authorities said. (WNYW)
When police arrived, they found a man pointing a gun at someone in the driveway of an apartment at 3259 Hull Avenue, NYPD Sergeant John Chell told the New York Post. The suspect fled when police approached and ran into the basement of the building.
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Some of the immigrant squatters arrested last week have been released. Three of them were taken into federal custody Wednesday. Immigration authorities also requested the detention of four immigrants in local custody, an ICE spokesperson said.
One of the migrants arrested on Wednesday was identified as Hector DeSousa Villalta, 24, who was previously arrested in August.
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Four guns, magazines, ammunition and drugs were found in the home of an immigrant believed to be an illegal immigrant. (New York City Police Department)
DeSousa Villalta, who allegedly brandished a gun last Wednesday, was initially released without bail, even though the Bronx District Attorney’s Office told Fox News that prosecutors had asked for $150,000 bail. It was done.
The newspaper said Chell allegedly shot a fellow immigrant in the leg during an argument over a woman in Yonkers in August 2023, but the attempted murder failed because the victim refused to cooperate. new york post.
“On August 28, 2023, Yonkers Police arrested De Souza on charges of First-Degree Assault: Intent to Inflict Serious Injury with a Weapon and Second-Degree Murder: Manslaughter,” ICE said in a statement.
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Two other people, Yoesie Pino Castillo, 20, and Yojailo Martinez, 42, were also arrested as federal authorities raided the home. Castillo was encountered by border authorities in Brownsville, Texas, on May 6, 2023, and released.
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She was arrested by the Woodbridge Police Department on January 6th in New Jersey on charges of shoplifting and manufacturing burglary tools. Castillo and six other immigrants face multiple charges, including possession of a weapon, possession of a loaded firearm and possession of a controlled substance.
Martinez was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, on September 22, 2022, and released. All three will remain in custody while authorities begin deportation proceedings, ICE said.
A group of eight undocumented immigrants who shared an apartment with a child are facing gun and drug charges. (WNYW)
The three immigrants in ICE custody are Johan Jose Cardenas Silva, Yervin Benjamin Losada Muñoz, and Javier Jose Albornoz Marchan.
Silva entered the United States in Cardenas del Rio, Texas, on October 3, 2022, but was determined to have entered the country illegally at another time. In March 2023, a judge ordered him to be deported. However, he was released from custody on October 6, 2023, but did not report it to ICE.
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Munoz was taken into custody by border authorities near Eagle Pass, Texas, on October 3, 2022, and later released.
Machan entered the United States on May 6, 2023 near El Paso. He was arrested several times on suspicion of shoplifting, possession of a weapon, possession of a loaded firearm on school grounds, and possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.
Miguel Gregerio Barrios is the only immigrant suspect being sought.
