Enforcement Removal Operations Boston (ERO) announced Tuesday that an illegal immigrant from Guatemala has been arrested and convicted of assault and battery on a child under 14.
Officials announced on February 21 that ERO Boston arrested a 34-year-old Guatemalan national who was recently convicted of child sexual assault.
“This individual posed a serious threat to the residents of Massachusetts,” said Todd M. Lyons, ERO Boston Field Office Director. “A convicted sex offender who is in the United States illegally should not have the opportunity to reoffend. The victims of his crimes deserve better recognition from our justice system. The men and women of ERO Boston We will continue to protect our communities from such threats.”
Officials said the man, who declined to be named, was arrested in the North Shore city of Gloucester and released by Gloucester District Court despite ERO Boston filing an immigration complaint against him.
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A 34-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala was found guilty of assault and battery on a child under 14. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE))
Authorities believe the 34-year-old entered the country illegally in April 2011 at an unknown location without being inspected by U.S. immigration officials or authorized to enter the country. He was then detained and arrested in December 2023.
The 34-year-old Guatemalan national was convicted in January in Gloucester District Court of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and separate assault and battery, officials said.
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Boston Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) recently arrested an illegal immigrant from Guatemala. (ice)
He was ordered by the court to register as a sex offender on the state sex offender registry. However, courts ignored ERO Boston’s immigration detainees and released them into society.
ERO Boston deportation officers successfully rearrested the Guatemalan in Gloucester on February 21, and he remained in ICE custody pending deportation proceedings before a federal immigration judge in the Department of Justice’s Office of Immigration Review (EOIR). Ru.
Officials said the arrest of the Guatemalan sex offender is one of several arrests made by ERO Boston as part of ICE’s recent national immigration enforcement coordination efforts.
During a nationwide law enforcement operation that began on February 5 and spanned several weeks, deportation officers from ERO field offices across the United States arrested 275 non-national sex offenders who were in the country illegally.
