Posted: Friday, September 20, 2013 12:27 am

By Scott DeSmit
thedailynewsonline.com

ALBION — An illegal immigrant who was twice deported, including once after being caught trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, was arrested in the village Thursday for a three-year-old shooting in Michigan.

Orleans County Major Felony Crime Task Force and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents received information that the man was living in Albion.

Task Force Supervising Officer Joseph Sacco said officers waited until Leonel Lopez-Alvarado got into a car and left his residence at 129 West Academy St. and then pulled the car over on West Bank Street.

Sacco said Lopez-Alvarado was taken into custody without incident. Another person in the car was a legal alien, he said.

A search of the house on West Academy found a loaded 9mm handgun, ammunition and a fake alien registration and Social Security card.

Sacco said Lopez-Alvarado had only recently been in Albion and has ties to Georgia and Michigan.

Lopez-Alvarado was twice deported, once in 2009 and again the next year.

He was wanted in Michigan for aggravated assault using a firearm for a 2009 shooting, Sacco said.

Lopez-Alvarado was charged Thursday with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.

He was arraigned in Town Court and committed to Orleans County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Lopez-Alvarado cannot be bailed out, however, since he is facing numerous federal charges, including re-entry into the United States and is wanted in Michigan on the felony assault charge. A detainer was filed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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