U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a series of arrests over the weekend, targeting individuals described as serious offenders with criminal backgrounds. Among those arrested was Jung Choi, a 53-year-old from South Korea who had previously been convicted of voluntary manslaughter for his role in the 2017 killing of Yoon "Clara" Ji in California. Choi had been sentenced to 11 years in prison following the crime.
A Senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official commented on the arrest, stating: “We are not going to allow this murderer and criminal illegal alien to remain in our country. If you come to our country and break our laws, we will find you, arrest you, and deport you. Day after day, ICE is going after the worst of the worst because under President Trump and Secretary Noem DHS will always put AMERICANS first. Just this weekend, ICE arrested pedophiles, drug traffickers, abusers, and other violent thugs.”
Other individuals taken into custody included Marion Andres Gomez-Arenas from Colombia, who has a record that includes 23 arrests and 18 convictions in Georgia for crimes such as fraud, forgery, shoplifting, DUI offenses, obstruction of law enforcement officers, possession of tools for committing crimes, use of false identification documents, and probation violations.
Arturo Serrano-Zeferino from Mexico was also arrested; he had been convicted on charges including felony stalking and domestic violence in Wake County, North Carolina.
Zoilo Holguin-Tavarez from the Dominican Republic was apprehended following convictions related to drug trafficking offenses in Pennsylvania.
Additional arrests included Kelin Henriquez-Ruiz from Nicaragua for assault causing bodily injury in Austin; Rigoberto Morales Hernandez from Mexico for alien smuggling in Albany; Miguel Martinez from Mexico for sexual exploitation of a minor and disseminating obscenity to a minor in North Carolina; Xaykham Mannavong from Laos for aggravated assault with a gun in Los Angeles; Madai Perez-Perez from Guatemala for willful poisoning of food on a person in Placer County; and Long Duc Tran from Vietnam for assault-related convictions in Maryland and Virginia.
These actions reflect ongoing efforts by ICE to remove individuals with significant criminal histories who are residing unlawfully within the United States.
