Ice Removes Airplane Hijacker Among 1,361 Violent Criminals In Houston Sweep

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,361 forbidden immigrants successful nan Houston area successful June, which included individuals antecedently convicted of hijacking an airplane, homicide, intersexual battle and more, nan agency revealed.

ICE said successful a property merchandise that nan forbidden immigrants arrested successful nan Houston area successful June are either presently charged pinch aliases person been convicted of a criminal offense. 

Of those arrested, 32 were antecedently convicted of kid activity offenses, 9 for homicide-related offenses, and 16 believed to beryllium pack aliases supplier cartel members. One personification arrested by ICE was convicted of hijacking an airplane headed to Key West, Florida, from Cuba.

Gabriel Martinez, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston acting section agency director, said immoderate group tried to derail their mission.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,361 forbidden immigrants successful nan Houston area successful nan period of June. (ICE and Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

"Despite attempts by immoderate to undermine our ngo by spreading mendacious and malicious rumors, nan brave men and women of ICE proceed to activity tirelessly astir nan timepiece targeting vulnerable criminal aliens to reconstruct integrity to our nation’s migration strategy and bolster nationalist information successful our communities," Martinez said. 

"The number of vulnerable criminal aliens that they removed from section communities crossed Southeast Texas past period is conscionable different illustration of their selfless and unyielding efforts to return our section communities to places wherever we tin each raise our families without having to interest astir kid predators, pack members, aliases different convulsive criminal aliens preying connected our loved ones," he continued.

CHILD PREDATORS, GANG MEMBERS, HUMAN TRAFFICKERS DEPORTED IN MAJOR TEXAS CITY ICE ROUNDUP

Deportation officers from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office apprehension David Antonio Lazo-Alvarenga, a 42-year-old criminal alien from El Salvador, June 12, successful Houston. (ICE)

Among those arrested by ICE are: 

– 56-year-old Adermis Wilson-Gonzalez, convicted successful 2003 of hijacking an airplane.

– 47-year-old Arnulfo Olivares Cervantes, convicted of trafficking cocaine, attempted murder, evading arrest, illegal entry and supplier possession. According to ICE, he has entered nan U.S. six times illegally.

– 29-year-old Luis Pablo Vasquez-Estolano, convicted of homicide, aggravated robbery, burglary of a conveyance and supplier possession.

U.S. soldiers return measures astatine nan Mexican separator successful New Mexico connected May 8, 2025. (Can Hasasu/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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– 40-year-old Jose Meza, convicted of intersexual battle of a insignificant and theft.

– 51-year-old Javier Escobar Gonzalez, convicted of intersexual indecency pinch a minor, criminal trespass pinch a deadly weapon, driving while intoxicated and unauthorized usage of a firearm.