ERO Boston arrests Dominican national charged in Massachusetts with drug trafficking, weapons offenses

BURLINGTON, Mass. — Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended a 23-year-old Dominican native charged with trafficking cocaine, distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine and carrying a dangerous weapon. Deportation officers arrested Jose Abel Polanco-Ramirez May 31 in Milford.

“Jose Abel Polanco-Ramirez is charged with peddling poison while carrying a deadly weapon on the streets of our Massachusetts community,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd M. Lyons. “This behavior represents a considerable threat to the people that we have sworn to protect. ERO Boston will continue to prioritize public safety by arresting and removing egregious noncitizen offenders from our New England neighborhoods.”

U.S. Border Patrol apprehended Polanco-Ramirez Sept. 8, 2023, after he unlawfully entered the United States near Lukeville, Arizona. Authorities served him a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge and released him from custody.

Police in Milford arrested Polanco-Ramirez March 13 and charged him with trafficking cocaine, distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine and carrying a dangerous weapon to wit: double edged knife.

Later that day, ERO Boston issued an immigration detainer against him with the Milford Police Department. However, the department ignored the immigration detainer and released him from custody on an unknown date prior to his appearance in the Milford District Court.

Polanco-Ramirez will remain in ERO custody pending the outcome of his removal proceedings.

ERO conducts removals of individuals without a lawful basis to remain in the United States, including at the order of immigration judges with Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. The Executive Office for Immigration Review is a separate entity from the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. Immigration judges in these courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case, determining if a noncitizen is subject to a final order of removal or eligible for certain forms of relief from removal.

As one of ICE’s three operational directorates, ERO is 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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