ERO Boston arrests 3 times removed MS-13 gang member Salvadoran national in Massachusetts wanted for murder

BOSTON — Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an unlawfully present Salvadoran fugitive and MS-13 gang member wanted for homicide in El Salvador. Deportation officers from ERO Boston apprehended the 44-year-old foreign fugitive in Foxboro February 19th.

“This unlawfully present fugitive is a member of a violent transnational criminal organization who is wanted for murder in his home country,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons. “The people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are safer today now that this fugitive criminal has been arrested. ERO Boston continues to help make our communities safer by our unwavering commitment to protecting public safety every day.”

According to the Boston Herald, the suspect in question is Wilmer Alexy Garcia-Manzanarez.

In March 2001, the Salvadoran national unlawfully entered the United States at the Canadian border in New York. He was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol and served with a notice to appear before a federal immigration judge with the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review.

In March 2002 the DOJ immigration judge ordered the Salvadoran national removed from the United States in absentia; ERO Phoenix removed him in January 2007.

In May 2010, he reentered the United States. USBP arrested him in Falfurrias, Texas, and served him with a notice of reinstatement of his previous final removal order.

ERO San Antonio removed the Salvadoran citizen from the United States a second time in July 2010.

After unlawfully entering the United States a third time, he was again arrested by USBP in Edinburg, Texas, in September 2012. USBP again reinstated his prior removal order.

ERO Harlingen removed him from the United States in October 2012.

The unlawfully present foreign fugitive unlawfully entered the United States a fourth time on an unknown date at an unknown location without being inspected or admitted by an immigration official.

After becoming aware of his presence in Massachusetts, deportation officers from ERO Boston arrested him without incident February 19th in Foxboro. The Salvadoran national will remain in ICE custody pending his removal from the United States.