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06/05/2015

ICE, US Marshals arrest 27 international fugitives with Interpol




WASHINGTON — Twenty-seven criminal foreign fugitives with active Interpol alerts were arrested across the United States this week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS).

Those arrested are from 13 different countries and wanted for crimes abroad. Of the 27, five are wanted for homicide, two for kidnapping, one for raping a child and one for human sex trafficking.

“Criminals who create mayhem here in the United States or abroad should understand that law enforcement is a global partnership,” said ICE Director Sarah R. Saldaña. “We will find them, and we will bring them to justice.”

Arrests occurred nationwide in nine states during the three-day sweep, which took place Tuesday through Thursday. Those arrested fell squarely into the agency’s enforcement priorities, which ICE officers prioritize and enforce every day.

“The arrest of these foreign fugitives should send a strong message to anyone attempting to avoid prosecution for their crimes here in the U.S. or abroad,” said USMS Director Stacia Hylton. “Our men and women were relentless in their effort to locate and apprehend these criminals. We hope our effort gives victims a sense of comfort in knowing these individuals are no longer on the streets.”

“Information-sharing 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year among U.S. law enforcement agencies like ERO and the USMS, along with the 189 other Interpol member countries and Interpol Washington, ensures transnational criminals have no place to hide,” stated Interpol Washington Director Shawn A. Bray. “By facilitating the sharing of this information with our law enforcement partners, together, we will continue to enhance safety and security for U.S. citizens and the global community.”

Arrests included:

• On June 2, ERO arrested Nelson Garcia Orellana, 30, and his brother Jorge Garcia Rivera, 23, both natives of El Salvador, in Trenton, New Jersey, and Alexandria, Virginia, respectively. They are wanted by authorities in their home country for kidnapping and are the subjects of Interpol Red Notices.
• On June 2, ERO arrested Gabriel Collado Gonzalez, 40, a native of Nicaragua, in Miami. Gonzalez is wanted by authorities in his home country for embezzlement and criminal conspiracy and is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice.
• On June 2, ERO arrested Raul Ortiz Henriquez, 40, a native of El Salvador, in Santa Fe Springs, California. Henriquez is wanted by authorities in his home country for rape of a minor. In November 2013, Henriquez grabbed his victim by her arms and forced her into a van he was driving while she was leaving school. He drove away, parked, beat her in the chest and raped her. He is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice.

The following individuals are all the subject of Interpol Red Notices and remain at-large:

• Juan Chicas Ramos, 56, a native of El Salvador, is wanted by authorities in his home country on an Interpol Red Notice for homicide
• Lisandro Medina Gamez, 33, a native of El Salvador, is wanted by authorities in his home country on an Interpol Red Notice for fraud

The ICE National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center (NCATC) provided critical investigative support for this operation, including criminal and intelligence analysis from a variety of sources. The NCATC provides comprehensive analytical support to aid the at-large enforcement efforts of all ICE components.

ICE credits the combined efforts of the U.S. National Central Bureau-Interpol Washington, the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Members of the public who have information about these fugitives are urged to contact ICE by calling the toll-free ICE tip line at 1-866-347-2423 or internationally at 001-1802-872-6199. They can also file a tip online by completing ICE’s online tip form.

Since Oct. 1, 2009, ERO has removed more than 720 foreign fugitives from the United States who were sought in their native countries for serious crimes, including kidnapping, rape and murder. ERO works with HSI’s Office of International Operations, foreign consular offices in the United States, and Interpol to identify foreign fugitives illegally present in the United States.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ic...tives-interpol

These 27 do not offer much comfort due to this is only a few of a bunch of bad bananas. Then, while they were corralling these, many more were just waking across, and those are not any better than these.

Why is government so proud of their law enforcement? They do not even arrest their own in house criminals, that alone makes them hypocritical, doesn't it?

6 FOREIGN FUGITIVES ARRESTED IN SOCAL FEDERAL SWEEP



Federal authorities arrested 27 high-profile fugitives from foreign countries in the U.S., including six in Southern California, in a three-day sweep.



By Robert Holguin
Friday, June 05, 2015 07:30PM

SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. (KABC) --
Federal authorities arrested 27 high-profile fugitives from foreign countries in the U.S., including six in Southern California, in a three-day sweep.

The arrests were part of an operation across nine states that began Tuesday, where U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Marshalls located and arrested dangerous fugitives wanted by Interpol.

Of those arrested, five were wanted for homicide, two for kidnapping, one for raping a child and one for human sex trafficking.

"We certainly are not going to allow individuals to commit serious, egregious, violent crimes in foreign countries and come to the United States to hide out," said Jim Pilkington with ICE.

On Tuesday, federal officers descended on an industrial park in Santa Fe Springs and arrested 40-year-old Raul Ortiz Henriquez while he was working.

The 40-year-old is wanted for abducting a girl leaving school and raping her in his home country of El Salvador.

Henriquez was taken to a federal building in downtown Los Angeles, where he was fingerprinted, photographed and transferred to a holding cell until his deportation to El Salvador.

He denied any knowledge of the crime to Eyewitness News and said he assumed he was being arrested because of his immigration status.

In Orange County, another fugitive was arrested for bribery charges in Central Asia.

Pilkington says the ICE enforcement and removal operation team works year round, tracking down fugitives who are trying to hide from their past.

http://abc7.com/news/exclusive-6-for...-sweep/769331/