THE BOOMARANG RAPIST – ILLEGAL ALIEN CONVICTED OF RAPE IN MARYLAND KEEPS BOUNCING BACK TO THE US – several more arrests of illegals with rape charges in Virginia and Maryland.

ILLEGAL ALIEN CONVICTED OF RAPE IN MARYLAND, KEEPS BOUNCING BACK TO THE US -ERO Baltimore apprehends Honduran national

The arrest marks ERO Baltimore’s 153rd noncitizen sex offender apprehension of the year.

 Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore apprehended an unlawfully present 36-year-old Honduran national convicted of raping a Maryland resident. Officers from ERO Baltimore’s Criminal Apprehension Program arrested Madai Gamaliel Amaya on Aug. 29 in Montgomery Village. Amaya has been previously removed from the United States.

HOW SOON BEFORE HE’S BACK AGAIN?

Amaya’s arrest marks the record 153rd noncitizen sex offender arrested in Maryland this fiscal year.

“The apprehension of Madai Gamaliel Amaya underscores the amazing work that our ERO officers perform daily,” said ERO Executive Associate Director Daniel Bible. “This is a landmark arrest for ERO Baltimore, in that they secured a record 153 noncitizen sex offenders arrested in their area of operations during a single fiscal year, but more importantly, there are 153 victims who need not fear their predators because of ERO officers. This arrest also highlights the amazing enforcement actions performed by ERO officers across our great nation.”

Amaya unlawfully entered the United States on an unknown date, at an unknown location, without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.

Montgomery County Police arrested Amaya on Jan. 8, 2009, and charged him with rape in the second degree.

The Circuit Court for Montgomery County convicted Amaya on Aug. 11, 2009, for the offense of rape in the second degree and sentenced him to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised probation. The court then suspended two years and six months of the prison sentence.

ERO Baltimore lodged an immigration detainer against Amaya with the Maryland Correctional Institute-Hagerstown in Hagerstown on July 26, 2010.

On Aug. 16, 2010, ERO Baltimore served Amaya with a final administrative removal order.

The Maryland Correctional Institute-Hagerstown transferred custody of Amaya to ERO Baltimore on June 20, 2013.

On July 26, 2013, ERO Baltimore removed Amaya from the United States to Honduras.

U.S. Border Patrol apprehended Amaya on July 27, 2016, after he unlawfully reentered the United States near Hidalgo, Texas. Border Patrol officials issued Amaya a notice of intent/decision to reinstate the prior removal order.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in McAllen convicted Amaya Jan. 3, 2017, of unlawful entry after removal and sentenced him to 30 months in federal prison.

ERO Dallas took custody of Amaya on Sept. 28, 2018, following his incarceration at the Great Plains Correctional Institute near Hinton, Oklahoma.

On Nov. 2, 2018, ERO Dallas removed Amaya from the United States to Honduras.

Amaya unlawfully reentered the United States on an unknown date, at an unknown location, without being inspected, admitted or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.

Officers from ERO Baltimore’s Criminal Apprehension Program arrested Amaya Aug. 29 in Montgomery Village and issued him a notice of intent/decision to reinstate prior removal order. Amaya remains in ERO custody.

As part of its mission to identify and arrest removable noncitizens, ERO lodges immigration detainers against noncitizens who have been arrested for criminal activity and taken into custody by state or local law enforcement. An immigration detainer is a request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to state or local law enforcement agencies to notify ICE as early as possible before a removable noncitizen is released from their custody. Detainers request that state or local law enforcement agencies maintain custody of the noncitizen for a period not to exceed 48 hours beyond the time the individual would otherwise be released, allowing ERO to assume custody for removal purposes in accordance with federal law.

Detainers are critical public safety tools because they focus enforcement resources on removable noncitizens who have been arrested for criminal activity. Detainers increase the safety of all parties involved — ERO personnel, law enforcement officials, removable noncitizens and the public — by allowing an arrest in a secure and controlled custodial setting instead of at-large within the community. Because detainers directly transfer a noncitizen from state or local custody to ERO custody, they also minimize the potential that an individual will reoffend. Additionally, detainers conserve scarce government resources by allowing ERO to take criminal noncitizens into custody directly rather than expending resources locating these individuals at-large.

ERO conducts removals of individuals without a lawful basis to remain in the United States, including at the order of immigration judges with the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. The Executive Office for Immigration Review is a separate entity from DHS and ICE. Immigration judges in these courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case, determining if a noncitizen is subject to a final order of removal or eligible for certain forms of relief from removal.

Members of the public can report crimes or suspicious activity by dialing 866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423) or completing the ICE online tip form.

As one of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s three operational directorates, Enforcement and Removal Operations is the principal federal law enforcement authority in charge of domestic immigration enforcement. ERO’s mission is to protect the homeland through the arrest and removal of those who undermine the safety of U.S. communities and the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and its primary areas of focus are interior enforcement operations, management of the agency’s detained and non-detained populations, and repatriation of noncitizens who have received final orders of removal. ERO’s workforce consists of more than 7,700 law enforcement and non-law enforcement support personnel across 25 domestic field offices and 208 locations nationwide, 30 overseas postings, and multiple temporary duty travel assignments along the border.

Learn more about ERO Baltimore’s mission to increase public safety in our Maryland communities on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @EROBaltimore.

 

Kevin Mendoza, 26, was illegally in the United States from Honduras. Charged with stalking, strangling, and raping a woman near her apartment building in Silver Spring on August 16, 2019. WJLA reported: Shortly before midnight on Aug. 16, 2019, the victim was walking through the apartment parking lot carrying items from her car when she noticed Mendoza following her. As the woman tried to unlock the door to the apartment building — located along the 8500 block of 16th Street — Mendoza allegedly grabbed her from behind and threw her to the ground. When the woman tried to yell, police say Mendoza strangled her with his hands … nearly to the point of unconsciousness. When the woman tried to escape, Mendoza allegedly hit her in the face and head, and then raped her.

Nelson Saul Reyes-Medrano, 46, is illegally in the United States from El Salvador. Reyes-Medrano is alleged to have crawled into the bed of a 16-year-old girl in Germantown in August 2018 while she was taking a nap and placed a knife against her throat before proceeding to rape her, according to authorities. He was found not guilty on March 12, 2020.

Mauricio Barrera-Navidad, now 29, is illegally in the United States from El Salvador. Charged with raping a then-11-year-old victim in a bedroom at a trailer park in Germantown in July 2018. Under a final order of removal since December 2016. Found not guilty in Montgomery Circuit Court on March 29, 2022.

Carlos Palacios-Amaya, now 28, is illegally in the United States from El Salvador. Palacio-Amaya is charged with raping the same 11-year-old girl on numerous occasions on or after September 2018, including one act he allegedly filmed. He was removed from the United States in 2014 and entered at some point illegally.

Rodrigo Castro-Montejo, 25, illegally in the United States from El Salvador. Castro-Montejo was arrested August 10 on charges of second-degree rape and second-degree assault (apparently in Rockville). He allegedly assaulted a female friend after a night of heavy drinking, according to court documents. Montgomery County District Court Judge Rand Gelber granted him a $10,000 bond, of which he had to post 10 percent. According to court records, he left the jail the next day “after a Silver Spring woman paid $1,000 surety on his behalf.” That occurred on August 13, after Montgomery County officials left a message with an off-duty ICE agent about Castro-Montejo’s release, but before those officials actually spoke to anyone from ICE.

Arturo A. Reyes charged with rape of child.

Attempted Rape – Prince William County Police report that on August 30, 2024, detectives concluded an investigation into a sexual assault that was reported to have occurred at a residence in the Woodbridge (22191) area of Prince William County between November 2018 and November 2019. The investigation revealed the victim, who was under the age of 15 at the time of the offenses, was sexually assaulted by a known party, identified as the accused, on more than one occasion during the above timeframe. The victim recently reported the incidents, prompting the police investigation.

Following the investigation, detectives obtained arrest warrants for the accused, identified as Arturo A. REYES, who turned himself in to police without incident on August 30.

Arrested on August 30, 2024: Arturo A. REYES, 70, of 1811 Joplin Rd. in Triangle, Reyes was charged with two counts of attempted rape, one count of aggravated sexual battery, one count of indecent liberties Court Date: Pending | Bond: Held WITHOUT Bond