Man wanted for drugs, firearms turned over to Mexican authorities at Stanton Bridge
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – A Mexican fugitive wanted in his home country for possessing methamphetamine and firearms was removed by deportation officers on Thursday, May 22, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a news release.
ICE said that Miguel Sifuentes Jimenez, 36, was turned over to Mexican authorities on Thursday on top of the Stanton Street Bridge at the international boundary between the U.S. and Mexico.
Sifuentes last illegally entered the U.S. in 2021 by walking across the U.S.-Mexico international boundary east of the Santa Teresa Port of Entry near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, ICE said.
ICE said that the following day, he was processed for removal and presented for prosecution. Upon time served, he was released by the Luna County Detention Center in Deming, New Mexico.
Sifuentes was first ordered removed from the U.S. in 2013 and was removed to his home country days later from Calexico, California, ICE said.
ICE said his criminal history in the U.S. includes convictions in California for felony robbery in 2008, for which he was sentenced to almost a year in jail; aggravated battery/spouse, a misdemeanor, in 2009, for which he was sentenced to serve 60 days in jail; and inflicting corporal injury spouse/cohabitation, a felony, in 2011, for which he received a two-year sentence.
On Monday, May 12, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers encountered Sifuentes at the Eddy County Detention Center in Carlsbad, New Mexico, where he was serving time after being convicted for aggravated battery against a household member/strangulation or suffocation, ICE said.
ICE said ERO lodged a detainer and arrested him when he was released from jail that same day. The following day, on May 13, he was charged with being in the country illegally.
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