Jamaican National Among At-large Criminal Immigrants Arrested

WASHINGTON D.C. CMC – A Jamaican national was arrested along with over 40 “at large criminal aliens”, during a five day law enforcement operation in Virginia this week.

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) agency, says agents from its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested the unidentified 40 year old Jamaican at his residence in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

The immigration agency said the Jamaican national had been convicted in the Virginia Beach Circuit Court of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and carrying a concealed weapon, and sentenced to two years imprisonment.

ICE said the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) operation was conducted throughout Virginia and the district in “identifying previously convicted criminal aliens that circumvented identification in local jails and are amenable to removal from the United States.”

“The enforcement effort netted arrests of aliens with prior criminal convictions for larceny, possession of stolen property, driving under the influence of alcohol, burglary and theft,” the immigration agency said in a statement.

“The United States welcomes law abiding immigrants, but foreign nationals who violate our laws and who commit crimes against those in our communities will not be allowed to stay,” it added.