Honduran man repeatedly deported is held in Fla. on suspicion of murder. A Honduran repeatedly deported from the United States over the last 16 years is being held in South Florida this week on suspicion of murder in his homeland.
BY ALFONSO CHARDY
achardy@ElNuevoHerald.com
A Honduran who was repeatedly deported from the United States but managed to return has been arrested once again -- this time for murder.

Federal agents on Wednesday arrested Pedro Antonio MartÃ*nez Escobar, 37, on charges that he was illegally in the United States. MartÃ*nez is expected to be charged criminally for repeatedly re-entering the United States after being deported.

AGAIN AND AGAIN

Federal agents said MartÃ*nez Escobar re-entered the United States at least four times since 1994.

In the MartÃ*nez Escobar case, the FBI advised immigration authorities on Aug. 13 that Interpol had issued a notice for the Honduran because he was wanted for murder in his homeland.

MartÃ*nez Escobar first entered the United States illegally through Texas in 1994. He was deported in 1997 and again in 1999.

He managed to return and was deported yet again in 2003. In 2008, he was arrested again and deported a fourth time.

He sneaked back into the country and once again is in custody. Immigration authorities did not say when MartÃ*nez Escobar allegedly committed the murder.

NOT THE FIRST TIME

It is not the first time that a Honduran has re-entered the United States multiple times after repeatedly being deported.

Juan Angel Hernández Lara, a torture suspect twice before deported to Honduras, managed to sneak back into the country a third time in 2004 and was then arrested at his Wellington home.

Hernández Lara had been identified by immigration authorities as a member of a notorious Honduran death squad in the 1980s known as Battalion 316, a military unit implicated in the abduction and murder of at least 184 political opponents of the regime in Honduras in the 1980s.



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