A Honduran national wanted for homicide in Indiana was arrested in Monroe County Thursday morning and taken into custody by federal immigration officials.
Monroe County Sheriff Deputy Justin Jackson made the bust after he conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle near Summerfield Road and Door Street in Bedford Township around 2 a.m. Thursday, according to a press release.
When the driver of the vehicle failed to produce proper identification, Jackson used “investigative techniques” to identify the man, then ran his name through the Law Enforcement Identification Network.
“Deputy Jackson discovered that the subject was wanted on a 2020 homicide warrant out of Marion County, Indiana,” the release read. “The U.S. Border Patrol’s Gibralter Station was contacted and responded to the scene of the traffic stop.”
Border patrol agents helped confirm the man’s identity and he was taken into custody by border patrol agents without incident, according to WTOL.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office did not name the suspect, who was identified only as a “43-year-old male from Honduras.”
The arrest is one of many involving illegal immigrants in Michigan in recent weeks.
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Last weekend, U.S. Border Patrol in Sault Ste. Marie arrested five illegal immigrants, including one who was previously deported, and processed them for removal.
“Sault Ste. Marie agents, along with local law enforcement, arrested 5 illegal aliens from Mexico and El Salvador Sunday during a traffic stop,” Chief Patrol Agent John Morris posted to X on Monday. “One subject faces felony reentry charges. All are being processed for removal from the United States.”
Others arrested over the proceeding week included eight illegal immigrants – five previously deported – and a “special interest alien from Venezuela” in Shelby Township, a previously deported illegal immigrant from Mexico in Gibraltar, a Guatemalan with a lengthy criminal record in Detroit, a suspected Tren De Aragua gang member from Venezuela in Auburn Hills, and an illegal immigrant from Mexico with “an extensive illegal immigration history” in Marysville, among others.
The bad hombres had prior convictions for immigration violations, battery, false documents, forgery, obstruction, dangerous drugs, traffic offenses, and as well as pending charges for kidnapping-sex offense/robbery, aggravated robbery with deadly weapon/intent to kill, burglary of a dwelling, extortion, felony menacing, and violent crime with a weapon, according to Border Patrol.
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Those arrests came just a week after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced prosecutors have charged at least 46 illegal immigrants with a range of crimes so far this year, from drug trafficking to illegal firearms possession to child pornography offenses.
The cases include individuals from Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Venezuela who entered the country illegally with prior convictions for human smuggling, drug trafficking, drunken driving, assault, and theft.
“These cases represent a fraction of the criminal aliens we and our federal partners arrest every day across the Detroit Sector that’s making this country safer than it was just a few short months ago,” Morris said in a statement.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office oversees federal crimes in Michigan, while state and local police have arrested countless other illegal immigrants in recent years for a wide range of crims, from sexual assaults to gruesome murders.
Data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement released in September showed more than 662,000 illegal immigrants on the agency’s docket who have criminal convictions or charges pending.
Those criminals, the vast majority free to roam the U.S., include 13,099 convicted murderers, 15,811 convicted of sexual assaults, 162,321 convicted of assault, 56,533 with dangerous drug convictions, 5,797 convicted of fraud, 18,234 convicted of larceny, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 13,423 with weapons convictions, 10,031 convicted of robbery, 9,461 with non-assaultive sexual convictions, 2,521 kidnappers, and 217 convicted of extortion.