By NAN Contributor
News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Thurs. Nov. 3, 2016: A 23-year-old Guyanese who was the subject of an Interpol red notice has been ICED and is now awaiting a deportation hearing in front of an immigration judge.
Anthony Bhupdeo was arrested on October 5th by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) National Fugitive Operations Program (NFOP) team members in New York. He was wanted in Guyana for murder. Bhupdeo is now being held at the Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearney, New Jersey awaiting deportation.
ICE ERO officers at the agency’s New York City field office received information from HSI Bogotá special agents that led to Bhupdeo’s arrest.
Meanwhile, 406 foreign fugitives on the loose have been nabbed for fiscal year 2016, an increase from 74 in fiscal year 2011.
Others located and arrested from Latin America and the Caribbean include:
Emilio Eliseo Coreas-Avelar, 24, of El Salvador, who was the subject of an Interpol red notice from El Salvador for aggravated homicide and gang participation;
Salomon Eusebio Rosario, 42, of the Dominican Republic, who was arrested on February 11 in Brooklyn, New York and was, at the time, wanted in the Dominican Republic for homicide;
Inmer Obed Palma-Garcia, 28, of El Salvador, who was arrested on July 16 in Waxahachie, Texas and was the subject of an Interpol red notice from El Salvador for aggravated homicide and;
Jonathan Josue Lopez-Rivera, 25, of Honduras, who was arrested July 21 in Glendale, California and was wanted in his home country for homicide.
