ICE arrested an unlawful immigrant who faces a number of little one intercourse crime fees in Massachusetts.
Sostenes Perez-Lopez, 59, a nationwide of Guatemala in the USA illegally, is charged in Massachusetts with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a baby below 14.
Perez-Lopez was charged with the crimes in municipal courtroom in Brighton in November.
“Sostenes Perez-Lopez stands accused of some horrific crimes against a child in Massachusetts,” stated Patricia Hyde, the appearing Boston workplace director of Enforcement and Elimination Operations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“We will not tolerate the victimization of our residents at the hands of alien offenders,” Hyde added. “ICE Boston will continue to prioritize the safety of our public by arresting and removing illegally present lawbreakers.”
The Boston Municipal Courtroom launched Perez-Lopez with a GPS tracker and particular circumstances pending the end result of his state case, however as of Feb. 18, Perez-Lopez is in ICE custody pending an look earlier than a federal immigration decide.
The President Trump administration has made immigration arrests a precedence.
Nationally, ICE housed nearly 44,000 detainees as of Feb. 23, 2025, in keeping with statistics maintained by the Transactional Data Entry Clearinghouse at Syracuse College. Greater than half of these detainees had been arrested by ICE and the remaining 48% had been arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Safety.
ICE databases that embody arrests within the New England area went down and stayed down late Tuesday afternoon, and so native arrest statistics had been unavailable for this story.
ERO, the enforcement department of the company, made 113,431 administrative arrests in fiscal 12 months 2024, in keeping with an company factsheet.
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