ERO Boston arrests convicted child molester in Rhode Island

CRANSTON, R.I. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston arrested Jorge Armando Jacinto on Dec. 15, 2024. Jacinto, aka Jorge Jacinto Masariego, was arrested immediately following his release from the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston, Rhode Island, after serving 14 years for child molestation.

“In 2012, the Providence Superior Court convicted Mr. Jacinto of four counts of felony first-degree child molestation and five counts of felony second-degree child molestation in Rhode Island,” said ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. “ERO Boston lodged an immigration detainer against him while he was serving his sentence for those crimes, and we’re fortunate that the Adult Correctional Institution honored it.”

Jacinto was arrested Feb. 4, 2011, and the Providence/Bristol County Superior Court convicted him of nine child molestation offenses Sept. 25, 2012, before sentencing him to 40 years in prison. The court suspended 20 years of his sentence.

ERO Boston officers served Jacinto with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge the day they arrested him for violating the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. He will remain in ICE custody pending his immigration hearing.

ERO is one of ICE’s three operational directorates and the principal federal law enforcement authority in charge of domestic immigration enforcement. ERO’s mission is to protect the homeland through the arrest and removal of those who undermine the safety of U.S. communities and the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and its primary areas of focus are interior enforcement operations, management of the agency’s detained and non-detained populations, and repatriation of noncitizens who have received final orders of removal. ERO’s workforce consists of more than 7,700 law enforcement and non-law enforcement support personnel across 25 domestic field offices and 208 locations nationwide, 30 overseas postings, and multiple temporary duty travel assignments along the border.

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