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ICE Boston, in coordination with federal law enforcement partners, apprehended 65 illegal aliens during a four-day enforcement operation in Connecticut targeting transnational organized crime, gangs, and egregious offenders. Among those arrested, 29 individuals had been convicted or charged in the United States with serious crimes, including kidnapping, assault, drug offenses, weapons violations, and sex crimes. Others were identified as members of transnational gangs or had criminal histories in their native countries.

The operation, named Operation Broken Trust, saw officers from ICE Boston’s Hartford field office collaborate with the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to apprehend illegal alien offenders across the state of Connecticut.

“Sanctuary legislation like Connecticut’s Trust Act only endangers the communities it claims to protect. Such laws only force law enforcement professionals to release criminal alien offenders back into the very communities they have already victimized,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. “The state of Connecticut is a safer place thanks to the hard work and determination of the men and women of ICE and our federal partners. Working together, we were able to arrest 65 illegal aliens in just four days throughout Connecticut, many of whom had significant criminality in the United States.”

The Connecticut Trust Act, which limits the cooperation of state and local law enforcement agencies with ICE, was expanded in May – further restricting local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE. As a result state and local law enforcement agencies will refuse to honor ICE detainers with a few rare exceptions.

"Make no mistake: Every person that we arrested are criminals and breaking federal law, but many of these individuals also victimized innocent people and traumatized communities — rapists, drug traffickers, child sex predators and members of violent transnational criminal gangs," Hyde said. "They all made the mistake of attempting to subvert justice by hiding out in Connecticut."

Throughout the duration of Operation Broken Trust, ICE and its federal law enforcement partners targeted egregious criminal alien offenders, operating in the state of Connecticut.

ICE and its federal law enforcement partners also pursued targets who had foreign arrest warrants and Interpol Notices, apprehending criminal alien offenders wanted by authorities in foreign countries, successfully making removing them from the streets after local jurisdictions refused to honor immigration detainer requests to turn over the offenders forcing ICE officers and agents to make at-large arrests in Connecticut communities.

Notable arrests included:

• Efren Mauricio Guallpa-Shurshanay, an illegal from Ecuador in Danbury, whose criminal history includes a conviction for sex assault in 2008.
• Ruben Antonio Fuentes, an illegal from El Salvador in Danbury whose criminal history includes convictions for drugs and cocaine, harassment, carrying a prohibited weapon, cruelty toward a child and obscene communication.
• Alexander Alberto Guerra-Avila, an illegal from Venezuela in Danbury, whose criminal history includes arrests for stalking, assault, disorderly conduct, and injury to a child.
• Jaime Timoteo Gonzalez-Moran, an illegal from Guatemala in Norwalk, whose criminal history includes convictions for sexual assault, threatening and three counts of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
• Jeremiah Garrido-Morales, an illegal from El Salvador in Stamford, whose criminal history includes arrests for robbery, assault and breach of peace.
• Edwin Andres Calva-Guaman, an illegal from Ecuador in Danbury, whose criminal history includes a conviction for larceny and arrest for domestic violence, assault 3rd degree and breach of peace.
• Nileshkumar Pravinbhai Patel, an illegal from India in Norwalk, whose criminal history includes charges of the sale of 1KG or more of cannabis and possession with intent to distribute 1KG or more of cannabis.
• Henry Morales-Cante, an illegal from Guatemala in Stamford, whose criminal history includes charges of assault, illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle, carrying a dangerous weapon, reckless endangerment and illegal use of a facsimile firearm.
• Marlon Morales-Cante, an illegal from Guatemala in Stamford, whose criminal history includes charges of assault, carrying a dangerous weapon, reckless endangerment and conspiracy to commit assault.
• Jonathan Alessandro Cordero-Morales, an illegal from Ecuador in Danbury, whose criminal history includes charges of assault, breach of peace, violation of protection order, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct.
• Carlos Ernesto Silvestre-Sanchez, an illegal from Guatemala in Danbury, whose criminal history includes charges of sexual assault and breach of peace.
• Jonatan Cruz-Najera, an illegal from Guatemala in Stamford, whose criminal history includes arrests for assault and disorderly conduct.
• Miguel Coello-Farfan, an illegal 51-year-old Peru in Stamford, whose criminal history includes a charge of sex assault of a minor that was overturned on appeal and he pleaded to lesser charges of a similar nature. Charges were then pardoned by the State of Connecticut.

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