Immigration and Customs Enforcement addressed the arrest of a prison defendant mid-trial at Boston Municipal Court docket Central final week — however didn’t communicate on contempt costs the choose filed towards the agent Monday.
“Officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston field office apprehended Juan Carlos Baez (aka Wilson Martell-Lebron), a 49-year-old, illegally present Dominican national with prior drug trafficking convictions, after he departed the Boston Municipal Court March 27, 2025,” an ICE spokesperson mentioned in a Tuesday assertion.
Baez, or Martell-Lebron as he’s been referred to in court docket, was arrested Thursday throughout his trial on the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse and brought to a detention facility in Plymouth.
The defendant was being tried on making a RMV-related false assertion and forgery costs, which had been dismissed by the choose Monday “due to egregious and intentional prosecutorial misconduct” following the ICE arrest.
The DA’s workplace mentioned after they heard of Baez’s detention, they “requested his return to court” from ICE, and the choose discovered Particular Agent Brian Sullivan, who facilitated the arrest, in contempt of court docket.
Baez entered the U.S. in 2000 through Miami, Florida, in keeping with ICE, and was convicted of three drug trafficking crimes within the Middlesex County Superior Court docket in 2009.
ICE didn’t reply an inquiry about why he was detained mid-trial.
Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden was scheduled to carry a press convention on the detention of the defendant Tuesday, however it was postponed till Wednesday morning.
