Boston ERO Field Office Director Todd Lyons | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a Cape Verdean woman wanted on forgery charges in her home country, U.S. Immigration and Customers Enforcement announced March 17.
Agents with ERO Boston’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested the unidentified 49-year-old woman on March 9, according to the news release, after a review of unresolved immigration fugitive cases determined she might be in the Boston jurisdiction. Immigration enforcement agents located the woman and arrested her "without incident," the release states. She currently remains in ICE custody awaiting the outcome of removal proceedings.
“This individual believed she could get away with crimes in her native country and not be held accountable,” ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons said in the release. “ERO Boston continues to take our mission very seriously and will never give up on carrying it out. Those foreign fugitives who attempt to run from their own history and hide out in our region should think again.”
ICE reports that the woman remained in the U.S. for eight years following the expiration of her government-issued tourist visa in 2015. In April 2016, the Judicial District Court of Praia in Cape Verde charged her with four counts of forgery, two counts of public document forgery, and two counts of crimes of passive corruption.
In Fiscal Year 2022, ERO arrested 46,396 noncitizens with criminal histories. The group collectively had 198,498 associated charges and convictions, including the following: 21,351 assault offenses; 8,164 sex and sexual assault offenses; 5,554 weapons offenses; 1,501 homicide-related offenses; and 1,114 kidnapping offenses.
ERO's workforce is comprised of over 7,700 law enforcement and non-law enforcement support personnel across 25 domestic field offices and 208 locations nationwide, 30 overseas postings, and several temporary duty travel assignment along the southern U.S. border.
