Police in Maryland reportedly charged an illegal immigrant who had been arrested multiple times and was already ordered deported in connection with the murder of a 2-year-old child.
Nilson Trejo-Granados, 25, of El Salvador, was charged with first-degree child assault by James Covington, spokesman for the Prince George's County, Maryland, Police Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and removal operations. and was charged with second-degree murder. It was confirmed that Fox 5.
Trejo-Granados compiled a rap sheet after multiple arrests while in the United States. A Justice Department immigration judge in Newark, New Jersey, ordered the illegal immigrants to leave the United States in November 2022.
BREAKING: Local media in Washington, D.C., reports that an illegal immigrant from El Salvador has been arrested in connection with the February 8 murder of a 2-year-old child.
ICE tells @fox5dc He was released from custody in 2023 after multiple arrests due to local law enforcement ignoring ICE detainees. https://t.co/rRAFL4fOGT— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 28, 2024
Most recently, the 25-year-old was one of five other people charged in the Feb. 8 shooting between two “groups,” including the death of a toddler who was caught in the crossfire. He took his life and injured his mother, who was walking with him. her dead baby. (Related: Illegal immigrant wanted in Brazil for child murder arrested on U.S. soil)
On February 8, a 2-year-old boy named Jeremy was walking with his mother when two rival gangs opened fire and he was run over and killed by a passerby. One of the men arrested was Nilson Trejo Granados, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
Granados has made several arrests… pic.twitter.com/xuFXu6MOUY
— 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 (@Travis_in_Flint) February 28, 2024
The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) arrested Trejo-Granados on March 21, 2023, on a charge of theft. In addition to arresting the man on the same charges, the police station also charged him with attempted obstruction of business in September 2023.
As a result of MCPD's last arrest, ICE reportedly filed an immigration complaint with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, but Trejo-Granados was released to the public the following month in October, Fox 5 DC reported. (Related: Despite record illegal immigration, there are thousands of empty beds in ICE detention centers)
Following recent arrests this year by Prince George's County police, ICE's Baltimore office has applied for new detainees to the Prince George's County Detention Center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
Other suspects charged in the killing include a 15- and 16-year-old boy from Hyattsville, and several other men who police suspect also drove a stolen car to the crime scene. and then opened fire, attacking the mother and her girlfriend. -Jeremy, the boy who died.
The two teens will be charged as adults.
All suspects are being held without opportunity for bail.
Venezuelan illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra was recently charged with the murder of Laken Riley, 22, a nursing student at the University of Georgia (UGA). Ibarra is said to have caused “significant bodily harm” to an inanimate object and caused “bodily harm” by damaging his skull. according to in the arrest affidavit. Police charged him with felony and malice murder, kidnapping, false imprisonment, aggravated assault, aggravated assault, and concealing the death of another person.
