A 52-year-old Brazilian man convicted of indecent assault and battery who was categorized as a registered Level 2 sex offender in Massachusetts was arrested near his residence in the city by the Boston office of Enforcement and Removal Operations last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement.
The man, who was not named in the statement, was arrested as part of a recent national immigration-enforcement effort during which ICE ERO officers arrested 171 unlawfully present noncitizens with pending charges or convictions for murder, homicide, or assault against children, the statement said. The effort ran from Jan. 16 to Jan. 28, and the man was arrested in Peabody on Jan. 25.
The man was first admitted to the U.S. as a visitor in March 2015. He then stayed in the country for more than eight years beyond the time allowed by his visa, according to the statement. In October 2021, he was arrested and arraigned at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 years of age and two other counts of assault and battery.
In August 2023, the man was convicted of all charges and given a two-year suspended sentence and three years of probation.
After his presence in Massachusetts was confirmed, deportation officers arrested him near his residence without incident. He will remain in the custody of ERO, which is set to seek his removal through reinstatement of a prior final order of removal issued by a federal immigration judge with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, the statement said.
