MIAMI — Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO) Tallahassee’s Felony Alien Program workforce officers arrested a citizen of the Dominican Republic in Tallahassee after he served a five-year sentence for lewd and lascivious battery in Osceola County.
ERO Miami encountered David Jean Charles Pena Melo on the Florida Division of Corrections’ Taylor Correctional Establishment in Perry. He was convicted in March 2018 for violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act as a noncitizen for an aggravated felony, a regulation referring to homicide, rape or sexual abuse of a minor.
Upon Pena Melo’s parole, ERO Miami detained and transported him to the Broward County Transitional Facility. Shortly afterward, Massachusetts’ Dorchester District Court docket issued a warrant for Pena Melo, the prime suspect in an unsolved homicide case of a lady who disappeared over a decade in the past. ERO Miami turned over custody of Pena Melo to the Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace for extradition to Boston to face homicide prices within the chilly case. He additionally faces an excellent warrant for cocaine trafficking within the state of New York.
“That is yet one more instance of how ICE detainers assist deliver noncitizens who’re violent criminals to justice,” stated ERO Miami Discipline Operations Director Garett Ripa. “After serving a sentence for felony battery, he now finds himself on the middle stage of a homicide investigation because of the arduous work of ERO Tallahassee’s Felony Alien Program workforce officers.”
ERO, a directorate of ICE, upholds U.S. immigration regulation at, inside, and past our borders. ERO operations goal public security threats, resembling convicted felony noncitizens and gang members, who’ve violated our nation’s immigration legal guidelines, together with those that illegally re-enter the nation after being eliminated and immigration fugitives ordered eliminated by federal immigration judges. ERO deportation officers assigned to Interpol additionally help in concentrating on overseas fugitives for crimes dedicated overseas at-large within the U.S. ERO manages all elements of the immigration enforcement course of, together with identification and arrest, detention, bond administration, supervised launch, transportation, and removing. Moreover, ERO repatriates noncitizens ordered faraway from the U.S. to greater than 150 nations worldwide.
Members of the general public can report crimes or suspicious exercise by calling 866-347-2423 or finishing ICE’s online tip form.
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