Hundreds of illegal aliens were rounded up during a recent enforcement surge in Florida.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just announced details about the operation, which was carried out in the Fort Myers area between Aug. 24 and 27.
Working alongside state and local agency partners, federal immigration authorities busted more than 500 illegal aliens.
“The Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a criminal illegal alien from Haiti with six charges associated with premeditated murder, and ICE and the Florida Highway Patrol arrested a Mexican cartel member and a Honduran accused of molesting two children,” ICE says.
ICE has released photographs, nationalities, and criminal histories of 10 other illegals taken into custody.
Noe Lux Castro | Guatemala
Castro, who has been charged with obstructing a law enforcement officer of his means of protection, resisting an officer with violence, and resisting an officer without violence, took a Florida state trooper’s Taser and attempted to use it against the Trooper during his apprehension.
Olmen Noel Vargas-Mendoza | Honduras
Vargas-Mendoza illegally reentered the U.S. without inspection three times and has a history of domestic violence.
Marlon Rolando Calderon-Castellon | Honduras
Calderon-Castellon reentered the United States without inspection after being removed and has a criminal history that includes battery and illegal drug possession.
Carlos Humberto Monzon-Cabrera | Guatemala
Monzon-Cabrera has a criminal history that includes battery and multiple convictions for operating a motor vehicle without a valid license.
Hermenegildo Andres-Juan | Guatemala
Andres-Juan reentered the U.S. after being deported and has a criminal history that includes driving under the influence, resisting arrest, hit-and-run, and public order crimes.
Armando Coc-Yat | Guatemala
Coc-Yat has a criminal history that includes arrests for driving under the influence and hit-and-run. He was issued a final order of removal in 2021.
Rigoberto Vargas-Resendiz | Mexico
Vargas-Resendiz reentered the U.S. three times after being deported. He was issued a final order of removal in 2011.
Daren Ruiz-Mejia | Venezuela
Ruiz-Mejia reentered the U.S. after deportation and has a criminal history that includes driving under the influence of liquor.
Melchor Perez-Garcia | Guatemala
Perez-Garcia reentered the U.S. after a prior removal and has a criminal history that includes driving under the influence, resisting an officer, and obstruction without violence.
Samuel Mateo-Francisco | Guatemala
Mateo-Francisco reentered the U.S. three times after being deported.
“Florida continues to demonstrate how to turn important policy into meaningful action,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “We have created an unprecedented law enforcement model that has turned Florida, under the 287(g) Task Force Model, into the most proactive and effective state in identifying, apprehending and deporting illegal immigrants who have intentionally avoided lawful immigration processes and committed horrific crimes within the United States.”
“Among the 500 illegal immigrants arrested on this operation alone were subjects accused or convicted of premediated murder, sexual abuse of minors, domestic violence, battery on law enforcement officers and driving under the influence. We will not sit idly by and allow Floridians to be victimized. Rather, we are executing on a whole-of-government approach that engages federal, state, and local law enforcement to get the job done and keep Florida safe and free.”
