The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says officers from its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Baltimore, MD have apprehended a Jamaican national convicted in Maryland of carrying a loaded handgun.
ICE said on Aug. 10 that deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Criminal Apprehension Program took the 19-year-old noncitizen into custody at his residence in Hyattsville, Maryland and served him with papers ordering him to appear before an immigration judge.
“This Jamaican noncitizen blatantly ignored Maryland’s gun laws by carrying a loaded handgun in public,” said ERO Baltimore acting Field Office Director Darius Reeves. “Had we not apprehended him, he could have easily wreaked havoc on the residents of Maryland.
“ERO Baltimore will continue to exhaust our resources to provide safe communities for the people of Maryland,” added.
ICE said the unidentified Jamaican national legally entered the United States in May 2011 at Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida.
ICE said officers from the Prince George’s Police Department arrested and charged him with possessing a loaded firearm on Feb. 28.
On Jun. 29, the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County in Upper Marlboro convicted the Jamaican national of possessing a loaded handgun and sentenced him to 23 months of incarceration followed by three years of supervised probation.
As one of ICE’s three operational directorates, ERO is the principal federal law enforcement authority in charge of domestic immigration enforcement.
