ICE arrests alleged child sex predator, MS-13 gang member in Massachusetts

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ICE arrests alleged child sex predator, MS-13 gang member in Massachusetts

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An alleged child sexual predator and MS-13 gang member has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Massachusetts.

ICE announced that its Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston division tracked down Belardis Tapia Gonzalez,
a Dominican national accused of second-degree child molestation-sexual assault in Rhode Island, in Lynn on Monday.

"ERO Boston is tasked with keeping our communities safe from potentially dangerous noncitizens -- particularly
those accused of crimes so egregious as child sexual assault," ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde
said in a statement. "Our officers apprehended Tapia, who has been accused of terrible crimes, after we
discovered that a court in Warwick, Rhode Island, released him on bail."
ERO Boston also arrested Jose Luis Castro Jovel, described as a "24-year-old Salvadoran national and confirmed
MS-13 gang member," on Nov. 13 along a road in Northampton.

"Castro entered the United States on an unknown date, at an unknown location, without being inspected,
admitted or paroled by a U.S. immigration official," ICE said. "A Department of Justice immigration judge
ordered his removal March 22, 2023, but he remained in the country.