Video: ICE Captures Fugitive Illegal Immigrant in Hyattsville
Suspect from El Salvador targeted as part of operation against illegal immigrants with sex offense convictions.
- By Michael Theis
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- January 26, 2013
A new video posted to a government website shows agents of the Beaureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement arresting an illegal immigrant with a history of criminal sex offenses in the Hyattsville area.
The short video was uploaded Thursday, Jan. 24 to the US Army's Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System video sharing website DVIDSHUB.net by videographer Peter Nissen.
Not much detail is provided by the videographer. For instance, the suspect is not identified in the video, nor is the exact location of the sting disclosed.
Here is what is known: the raid was carried out by the officers with the Baltimore office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations division. The arrest was part of Operation SOAR, which stands for Sexual Offender Alien Removal. Operation SOAR targets illegal immigrants for deportation who are wanted on sexual offenses.
The suspect is described as a man from El Salvador living in the Hyattsville area with sexual assault and prostitution convictions on his record.
The operation was carried out in the morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.
The video shows officers reviewing details in a parking lot as a steady shower of snow descends against a pre-dawn sky. Radio crackles information about the suspect's car in shot from inside a vehicle. Then, after sunrise, the video shows officers leading a man in handcuffs out of a brick apartment building, their faces burred by the video editor.
The video transitions to a processing facility, where the suspect is fingerprinted and led to a holding cell.
A message left with the Baltimore ICE-ERO office for more information was not returned.
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Ted
2:39 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
I understand as soon as they captured him, they issued him a driver's license, a WIC card, and an ObamaPhone, and made arrangements for him to move into my neighborhood.
FRANCINE ABELL
12:02 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013
Oh, if only that were funny! I LIVE in a Hyattsville (not proper) neighborhood where ICE could drop a net!! Again, not funny.
Carolyn
5:53 am on Monday, January 28, 2013
and this was all possible because of intelligent citizens like you!