Salvadoran criminal who kept returning to the U.S. is deported for fourth time

By Kevin Krause
kkrause@dallasnews.com
3:09 pm on October 30, 2014


Zavala returns to El Salvador following his deportation from the U.S. (ICE)

A Salvadoran man who committed various crimes in the U.S. over the years was deported Wednesday back to his country for the fourth time, federal officials said.

German Ardon-Zavala, 57, was put on a government charter flight to El Salvador from Dallas by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was turned over to El Salvador’s Policia Nacional Civil, ICE said.

“By removing criminal aliens to their countries of origin, ICE also removes the threat they pose to public safety in local U.S. communities,” said Simona L. Flores, an ICE field office official in Dallas.

Zavala was first arrested by U.S. Border Patrol in October 1985 when he tried to illegally enter the U.S., according to ICE. He was deported the following month.

Zavala returned to the U.S. and was convicted of various misdemeanor crimes between 2006 and 2008. He was deported for the second time in 2008.

After re-entering the country, Zavala was convicted in Los Angeles of burglary and grand theft and sentenced to two years in prison in February 2011. Upon his release in 2012, Zavala was deported for the third time.

Border Patrol agents arrested Zavala in October 2012 when he again tried to enter the U.S. In January, he was convicted of that crime and sentenced to two years in federal prison. Zavala’s latest deportation occurred this week.

ICE said it flew 160 criminals back to El Salvador last year. Many of them were accused of homicide and other violent crimes, the agency said.

Since October 2009, ICE has removed more than 720 foreign fugitives from the U.S. who were wanted in their native countries for serious crimes such as kidnapping, rape and murder.

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