Federal immigration officers primarily based in Boston have nabbed two noncitizens accused of kid sexual abuse both in their very own nation or right here in New England.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removing Operations brokers arrested Dominican unlawful immigrant Emilio Jose Pena-Casilla in Boston on Dec. 17, however introduced the arrest on Friday.
He was charged in Boston municipal court docket in Dorchester in July with assault to rape, kidnapping, two counts of indecent assault and battery on an individual 14 years or older and intimidating a witness/juror/police/court docket official. He was then indicted on the identical fees in Suffolk Superior Courtroom that September.
“Today, another victim in Massachusetts no longer needs to fear their predator,” Patricia Hyde, the performing area workplace director of ERO Boston, stated following the arrest.
“Emilio Jose Pena-Casilla stands accused of some very serious offenses against a Massachusetts resident,” she continued. “We hold a sacred duty to protect the residents of our communities, and we will continue to do so by apprehending and removing egregious noncitizen offenders from our neighborhoods.”
The sector workplace says it lodged a detainer — which is a request by ICE to native legislation enforcement companies to carry the defendant so brokers can apprehend them — to each the Boston Police Division, the Suffolk Sheriff’s workplace and the court docket, however that the court docket ignored it and launched Pena-Casilla with GPS monitoring.
The subsequent arrest was of a Peruvian charged in his personal nation with raping a baby. ERO Boston-based brokers arrested him in New Haven, Connecticut, on Dec. 16 and introduced the arrest on Friday.
The workplace shouldn’t be naming the person “due to ongoing privacy issues concerning this case,” in accordance with an announcement, and has blurred his face in a photograph it launched with the assertion.
“ERO Boston, in partnership with local authorities, is charged with keeping our communities safe — and we take that responsibility very seriously,” Hyde stated within the assertion asserting the arrest. “Connecticut is not, and never will be, a safe haven for fugitives accused of harming children.”
