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DEA, ICE, Coast Guard arrest ilegal immigrants in Nantucket


A number of federal legislation enforcement companies labored collectively to arrest unlawful immigrants current on Nantucket, together with one who has beforehand been charged with kidnapping.

“Brokers on Cape Cod are helping @ICEgov and @EROBoston with arrests of unlawful felony aliens on Nantucket. The male pictured had prior fees of home assault and battery and kidnapping. These two arrests occurred in coordination with @USCGNortheast,” The Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England discipline workplace tweeted at round 1:15 p.m. Wednesday.

The regional U.S. Coast Guard account mentioned that guardsmen stationed at Woods Gap “assisted within the arrest of two aliens close to Nantucket” and that the pair have been then taken into custody by the DEA.

The arrests come a day after the Boston discipline workplace of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removing Operations unit — or ERO — introduced it had arrested a convicted assassin who had escaped jail in his dwelling nation of Haiti.

“This apprehension demonstrates ICE’s relentless dedication to pursuing fugitives and making certain they face justice, regardless of the place they try to cover,” ERO Boston appearing director Patricia Hyde wrote in an announcement saying the arrest.

ERO officers arrested Wilbert Jean-Baptiste, 38, on Feb. 4, a day after the Haitian authorities instructed the workplace that he was wished for murder and had escaped from a jail there.

Jean-Baptiste entered the U.S. close to Brownsville, Texas, and arrested by U.S. Border Patrol on Oct. 31, 2023. He was launched with a discover to look earlier than an immigration choose. That choose ordered Jean-Baptiste be faraway from the U.S. again to Haiti on Could 17, 2024.

Courtesy/DEA

Boston-based brokers with ICE’s Enforcement and Removing Operations unit stand with a number of unlawful immigrants they arrested on Nantucket. (Courtesy/DEA)

Convicted Haitian murderer Wilbert Jean-Baptiste in ICE custody. (Courtesy/ICE)

Courtesy/ICE

Convicted Haitian assassin Wilbert Jean-Baptiste in ICE custody. (Courtesy/ICE)

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