ICE arrests 1,361 criminal aliens in Houston area in June alone

Deportation officers from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office arrest David Antonio Lazo-Alvarenga, a 42-year-old criminal alien from El Salvador, June 12, in Houston. Lazo-Alvarenga has illegally entered the U.S. four times and has been convicted three times for driving while intoxicated and once for illegal reentry while in the country illegally.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,361 illegal aliens in the Houston area during the month of June who are currently charged with, or have been convicted of, a criminal offense after illegally entering the United States.

Among those arrested were 32 aliens convicted of child sex offenses, nine convicted of homicide-related offenses, 16 documented members of transnational gangs or drug cartels, and one alien convicted of hijacking an airplane en route to Key West from Cuba.

“Despite attempts by some to undermine our mission by spreading false and malicious rumors, the brave men and women of ICE continue to work tirelessly around the clock targeting dangerous criminal aliens to restore integrity to our nation’s immigration system and bolster public safety in our communities,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Acting Field Office Director Gabriel Martinez. “The number of dangerous criminal aliens that they removed from local communities across Southeast Texas last month is just another example of their selfless and unyielding efforts to return our local communities to places where we can all raise our families without having to worry about child predators, gang members or other violent criminal aliens preying on our loved ones.”

Among those arrested by ICE ERO Houston in June:

  • Adermis Wilson-Gonzalez, a 56-year-old criminal alien from Cuba, arrested June 29. He was convicted in 2003 of hijacking an airplane traveling from Cuba to Key West, Florida.
  • Arnulfo Olivares Cervantes, a 47-year-old criminal alien from Mexico and former Mexicles gang member, arrested June 13. He has illegally entered the U.S. six times and has been convicted twice for trafficking cocaine, and once each for attempted murder, evading arrest, illegal entry and drug possession.
  • Luis Pablo Vasquez-Estolano, a 29-year-old, six-time-deported criminal alien from Mexico, arrested June 10. He has been convicted of homicide, aggravated robbery, burglary of a vehicle and drug possession.
  • Jose Meza, a 40-year-old criminal alien from Mexico, arrested June 24. He has illegally entered the U.S. four times and has been convicted of sexual assault of a minor and theft.
  • Javier Escobar Gonzalez, a 51-year-old criminal alien from Mexico, arrested June 23. He has been convicted of sexual indecency with a minor, criminal trespass with a deadly weapon, driving while intoxicated, and unauthorized use of a firearm.

The arrests were part of the ERO Houston Field Office’s routine immigration enforcement activities conducted alongside federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Texas.

To learn more about ICE’s mission to combat illegal immigration in the Houston area, follow @EROHouston on X.

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Before creating Bluebonnet News in 2018, Vanesa Brashier was a community editor for the Houston Chronicle/Houston Community Newspapers. During part of her 12 years at the newspapers, she was assigned as the digital editor and managing editor for the Humble Observer, Kingwood Observer, East Montgomery County Observer and the Lake Houston Observer, and the editor of the Dayton News, Cleveland Advocate and Eastex Advocate. Over the years, she has earned more than two dozen writing awards, including Journalist of the Year.

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