MS-13 gang members, released into the United States by federal officials, are among five illegal aliens charged with murdering a 15-year-old boy in Frederick County, Maryland.
As Breitbart News reported this week, 21-year-old illegal alien Alexis Alfredo Ayala Lopez, 23-year-old illegal alien Jose Roberto Ramos Lopez, 29-year-old illegal alien Ismael Lopez Lopez, 27-year-old illegal alien Elmer Bladimir Reyes Reyes, and 20-year-old illegal alien Ismael Ivan Rivera Canales have been arrested and charged with murdering Limber Lopez Funez, who went missing in February before his remains were found in Gambrill State Park in April.
According to Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, which works closely with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency through its 287(g) agreement, Ramos Lopez and Lopez Lopez are both validated members of the violent MS-13 gang, which often funnels its recruits through the federal government’s Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) pipeline.
Thanks to Frederick County’s 287(g) agreement with ICE, the agency has placed detainers on all five illegal aliens so that they will be turned over to their custody if they are released from local police custody at any time.
Five illegal aliens are now accused of murdering a 15-year-old boy sometime earlier this year in Frederick County, Maryland. https://t.co/rAt42x8uA3
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 31, 2023
The sheriff’s office also announced that a sixth suspect, MS-13 gang member Josue Mauricio Arrue-Paniagua has also been arrested and charged with attempted murder in connection to Funez’s death.
Jon Feere, Director of Investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies and a former ICE official in the Trump administration, reports that three of the illegal aliens charged with Funez’s murder arrived at the United States-Mexico border as UACs.
Together, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the illegal aliens — two of which are MS-13 gang members — into the U.S. interior as a result.
🚨 SCOOP: I can report that THREE of the SIX illegal alien murder/assault suspects identified by the Frederick County, Md. Sheriff’s Office entered the U.S. as UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN (UAC), and two of the UAC are MS-13 gang members. https://t.co/mzjvuWPltk … pic.twitter.com/uYuWcneWmc
— Jon Feere 🇺🇸 (@JonFeere) May 31, 2023
This work by the @FredCoSheriff shows the importance of the 287(g) program, where sheriffs are trained by ICE to identify aliens in their custody. Biden’s DHS refuses to take custody of countless criminal aliens ID’d by 287(g) partners, forcing their release back into our towns. pic.twitter.com/UcZ0L17Q8O
— Jon Feere 🇺🇸 (@JonFeere) May 31, 2023
The Funez case is deeply similar to the murder of 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton, which occurred in Maryland in July 2022.
A detailed investigation into Hamilton’s murder by the House Judiciary Committee revealed this month that the illegal alien MS-13 gang member accused of murdering the young woman had arrived at the border as a UAC just a few months prior.
Subsequently, despite his prior arrest in El Salvador for his being connected to MS-13, the illegal alien was briefly detained by DHS before being turned over to HHS. From there, only two months before Hamilton’s murder, the illegal alien was placed with an adult sponsor in Maryland by HHS officials.
Police allege that the illegal alien strangled Hamilton to death using the wire of a pair of earphones before sexually assaulting her. While the homicide charges were pending, the illegal alien was placed in a foster home with other children.
In the Funez case, all suspects are being held at the Frederick County Adult Detention Center without bail.
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