Communities across the country have been left on edge by illegal immigrants who have taken advantage of the lax southern border under the Biden-Harris administration and victimized innocent Americans.
Through the efforts of police and prosecutors, an example has been set of these migrants being arrested or convicted for their violent crimes in 2024.
1. A Guatemalan immigrant is accused of setting a woman on fire in a New York City subway
Sebastian Zapeta, an immigrant previously deported from Guatemala, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder, three counts of second-degree murder, and one count of arson after setting a woman on fire and burning her to death on a subway train in December. 22 In Brooklyn, New York.
Illegal immigrant charged with murder after woman burned to death on subway
Sebastian Zabieta, accused of setting a woman on fire on a New York City subway train, will appear in court on December 24, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Curtis Media across the pool)
Surveillance video showed the suspect, believed to be Zapeta, approaching the woman, who was sitting motionless and possibly asleep on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stilwell Avenue subway station.
Then it was burned.
“When the train arrived at the station, the suspect calmly walked toward the victim,” New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a press conference, adding that the victim was in a sitting position. He added: “The suspect used what we believe was a lighter to ignite the victim's clothes, which were completely swallowed within seconds.”
Zabeta was arrested by the Border Patrol and deported by the Trump administration on June 7, 2018, after being They illegally crossed into Sonoita, Arizona, A week earlier, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Jeff Carter told Fox News. Zabeta later returned to the United States illegally at an unknown date and location, Carter said.
2. Venezuelan immigrant Jose Ibarra is sentenced for the murder of Lakin Riley
In November, a Georgia judge convicted and sentenced Jose Ibarra, a murder suspect Augusta University student Lakin Riley On the University of Georgia campus in February.
Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge Patrick Haggard Ibarra was found guilty of 10 charges, Including one count of first degree murder, three counts of aggravated murder, one count of kidnapping, one count of aggravated assault with intent to rape, one count of aggravated battery, one count of obstructing a 911 call, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of tampering with evidence. Being a “peeping tom.”
Ibarra has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Jose Ibarra, left, was found guilty of 10 counts in the death of Georgia nursing student Lakin Riley, right. (Hyoseob Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
Prosecutors said Ibarra, a 26-year-old undocumented immigrant from Venezuela, attacked and killed Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, while she was jogging along trails near Herrick Lake on the beachfront. University of Georgia campus In Athens on the morning of February 22.
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3. A Mexican citizen was arrested on charges of killing his girlfriend after being deported from the United States
Brandon Ortiz-Fite, who was deported to his native Mexico in 2020, was arrested on murder charges in March for killing a Michigan woman after he allegedly returned to the United States illegally.
Ortiz-Fite, who is being held at the Kent County Jail in Michigan, faces charges of felony murder, first-degree murder, auto theft, carrying a concealed weapon and use of a firearm after the body of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia was found. Discovered in the United States 131 inches Downtown Grand Rapids.
Police said the couple were in a romantic relationship at the time of the murder.
Brandon Ortiz-Fite, who is being held at the Kent County Jail in Michigan, is charged with murder and other crimes after the body of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia was discovered on U.S. 131 in downtown Grand Rapids. (Mavi Garcia, Kent County Jail)
Ortiz-Vite, 25, was arrested by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Detroit on August 31, 2020, and served a Notice to Appear. An immigration judge with the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review ordered his removal (EOIR) September 24, 2020, and he was transferred to Mexico on September 29, 2020,” an ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
“At an unknown date and location, Ortiz-Vite returned to the United States without inspection by an immigration official.
“On March 24, 2024, ERO Detroit confronted Ortiz-Fayette after Michigan State Police arrested him and charged him with murder and other crimes,” the spokesperson added. “ERO Detroit placed in custody at Kent County Jail for Ortiz-Fayette.”
4. Honduran national accused of attempted rape and sexual assaults
During a press conference last November. Herndon Police Department in Virginia Dennis Humberto Naverette Romero, 31, was charged with kidnapping with intent to desecrate and rape of a stranger he snatched from the road, he announced.
On Nov. 24, officers responded to W&OD Trail to a call about a woman who approached a bystander and called for help after she said she had been raped.
The victim told police that Romero grabbed her, threw her to the ground and raped her.
Denis Humberto Navirete Romero, an illegal Honduran immigrant, has been accused of raping a woman on a popular hiking trail outside Washington, D.C., just days after he was released from prison for other sex crimes. (Herndon Police Department)
The woman was able to resist the attacker and run away to get help. Police found Romero shortly after.
Romero, a Honduran citizen, has a documented history of sexual assaults and indecent exposure in the area dating back to 2022, according to Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBord.
A source close to the matter told Fox News Digital that Romero is homeless and has been in and out of prison but has never served any significant time. The source explained that the Public Prosecution dropped several charges against him for less serious crimes.
5. An immigrant wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic is accused of killing a New York family
In September, Julio Cesar Pimentel Soriano, from the Dominican Republic, was arrested for the murder of a family of four from New York in their home.
On August 31, Frame Ubaldo, 30; Marangeli Moreno Santiago, 26; Evangeline Ubaldo Moreno, 4; and Sebastian Ubaldo Moreno, 2, were killed in their home, the Irondequoit Police Department wrote in a post on X.
“This was a horrific scene,” Irondequoit said Chief of Police Scott Peters said at a press conference. “In nearly 32 years of doing this work, I've never seen anything like it.”
Julio Cesar Pimentel Soriano, 34, of the Dominican Republic, was arrested in September for the murder of a family of four in upstate New York. (wham)
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Police arrested Pimentel Soriano on September 7.
“It appears that Mr. Soriano illegally entered the island of Puerto Rico and obtained a false New York ID,” Irondequoit police said. “With this identity, he is free to travel from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland.”
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Pimentel Soriano was wanted for a 2019 murder in his country at the time of his arrest, according to the department.
Fox News Digital's Audrey Conklin, Michael Dorgan and Jasmine Beyer contributed to this report.
