ICE arrests illegal alien convicted of murder in New York

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Noel Hernandez Leon, a 50-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, upon his release from the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision at Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York, April 17.

Hernandez illegally entered the United States on an unknown date and location without admission or parole by an immigration official. The Kings County Supreme Court in Brooklyn convicted Hernandez of first and second-degree murder and first-degree robbery Dec. 11, 1996, and sentenced him to 20 years to life imprisonment. An immigration judge ordered Hernandez removed from the United States May 26, 1999.

Hernandez is currently detained at Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, New York, awaiting removal to Mexico.

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