WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a Salvadoran gangbanger who is needed for crimes in his residence nation after a wild automotive chase in Virginia earlier this month — which ended when the unlawful migrant smashed into one other car and wrecked his automotive, The Publish can reveal.
Javier Enrique Canas-Escobar, 31, was apprehended in Bealeton, Va., greater than 50 miles from the nation’s capital following the multi-car crash on Could 22 — and is a member of the “infamous transnational” 18th Avenue gang already charged with unlawful firearms possession in El Salvador, an ICE official mentioned.
“Caquillo,” as he’s recognized within the gang, veered to the other aspect of the double-yellow and collided into one other driver, totaling his automotive, earlier than ICE and Virginia State Police nabbed him.
State authorities have since charged him with two felony counts of assaulting regulation enforcement officers, eluding, felony and misdemeanor hit and runs, driving on the improper aspect of the freeway, property destruction and failure to obey a cease signal.
ICE Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO) DC discipline workplace director Russell Hott mentioned he posed “a big risk to the residents of our Virginia communities” and “has a slew of costs to reply to earlier than being eliminated to El Salvador to face firearms costs there.”
Canas-Escobar illegally entered the US “on an unknown date, at an unknown location and with out being inspected, admitted or paroled,” based on the Division of Homeland Safety.
ICE has since lodged an immigration detainer request with the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Workplace in Warrenton.
Nobody was injured within the automotive chase, however he was briefly handled at a neighborhood hospital.
Salvadoran authorities had first demanded his extradition on Could 16.
President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan instructed reporters final month that roughly 139,000 unlawful immigrants had been deported within the administration’s first 100 days — however as many as 700,000 with prison costs are nonetheless contained in the US.
However high-profile deportations in March to a mega-prison in El Salvador of a whole lot of alleged Venezuelan gang members — together with purported MS-13er Kilmar Abrego Garcia — have prompted protracted authorized challenges to Trump’s mass deportations plan.
The White Home up to now week has tasked ICE with stepping up its quota of deportations — from 1,800 to three,000 arrests per day — because the Trump admin seeks to quickly deport extra.
ICE just lately underwent a “management realignment” that resulted in no less than one official’s retirement and the elevation of different profession staffers to assist that effort.
