ICE Boston arrests Guatemalan alien charged with assaulting child with injury in Massachusetts

REVERE, Mass. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended an illegally present Guatemalan national charged with assault and battery family member and assault and battery on a child with injury. Officers with ICE Boston arrested Cosme De Leon-Barrios, 46, in Revere, Jan. 27.

“Cosme De Leon-Barrios is charged with brutally assaulting a child with an injury in our Massachusetts community,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. “He represents a significant threat to the residents of New England that ICE Boston will not tolerate. We stand committed to our mission of prioritizing public safety by arresting and removing illegal alien threats to our neighbors.”

De Leon-Barrios illegally entered the United States on an unknown date, at an unknown location, and without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.

Officers with the Revere Police Department arrested De Leon-Barrios, Jan. 27, and charged him with assault and battery family member and assault and battery on a child with injury.

Officers with ICE Boston arrested De Leon-Barrios following his release from local custody. De Leon-Barrios remains in ICE custody.

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