12-13-2009, 06:30 AM
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ICE sweep catches 300, including convicted sex offender
San Bernardino County Sun Version
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ICE sweep catches 300, including convicted sex offender
Melissa Pinion-Whitt, Staff Writer
12/11/2009
LOS ANGELES - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweep netted nearly 300 arrests of illegal immigrants, including a convicted sex offender who was captured in Rialto, ICE officials said Friday.
Ignacio Camacho-Madrigal, 43, was among 286 foreign nationals picked up during the sweep, including 24 from the Inland Empire. Officials said he is a Mexican citizen convicted of committing a lewd act on a child younger than 14-years-old.
"He has been charged criminally with felony reentry after deportation," said ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice.
Camacho-Madrigal was found in San Bernardino County just seven months after he had been deported, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court. He had been convicted in Los Angeles County in December 1992 for the sex offense, and was sentenced to three years in prison.
The three-day immigration bust, which concluded late Thursday, targeted illegal aliens with criminal records and was the largest ever carried out by ICE.
ICE officials said more than 80 percent of the people arrested had prior convictions for serious or violent crimes, including rape, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Thirty are convicted sex offenders. At least 100 have already been removed from the country.
More than 400 agents and officers from ICE, the U.S. Marshals Service and local law enforcement agencies participated in the statewide sweep, which was spearheaded by ICE's Fugitive Operations Program.
The program focuses on illegal immigrants who have ignored final deportation orders given by immigration courts.
Camacho-Madrigal is one of 17 people arrested who could face up to 20 years in federal prison for reentering the country after a formal deportation.
"The U.S. Attorney's Office has agreed to criminally prosecute him for illegal reentry," Kice said.
Northern California had 119 arrests, including 14 convicted sex offenders. ICE arrested 45 people in Los Angeles County and 11 in Orange County.
The people arrested came from 31 different countries including Canada, Pakistan, Colombia, Cuba and the Philippines
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