Once deported illegal migrant re-entered u. S. And raped nantucket resident

NANTUCKET, Mass. — Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a 41-year-old Guatemalan noncitizen charged with a sex crime against a Nantucket resident. Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez, who had previously been removed from the United States in 2011, was taken into custody on Sept. 11.

Perez-Gomez had been deported after convictions for reckless driving and reckless endangerment in Pennsylvania. He had unlawfully reentered the United States at an unknown location and time, according to ERO officials. “Perez represents a threat to our New England residents that we cannot tolerate,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd M. Lyons.

In August, Perez-Gomez was arraigned in Nantucket District Court on charges of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 years or older. The court proceedings followed his arrest for the alleged assault, though further details regarding the incident have not been made public.

Perez-Gomez’s initial encounter with ERO occurred in 2011 when he was arrested in Pennsylvania on charges of reckless driving. A Department of Justice immigration judge ordered his removal to Guatemala that same year, and he was deported on Aug. 11, 2011.

Perez unlawfully reentered the United States at an unknown location on an unknown date and without being admitted, inspected or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.

Perez-Gomez remains in ERO custody following his recent arrest in Nantucket. His current immigration status is under review, and further legal proceedings are expected.

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