ICE officials carrying out a ten-day operation in the Houston area, Oct. 22-31, 2025. (ICE)
ICE officials carrying out a ten-day operation in the Houston area, Oct. 22-31, 2025. (ICE)
ICE officials carrying out a ten-day operation in the Houston area, Oct. 22-31, 2025. (ICE)
In total, the October operation resulted in the arrests of 17 documented gang members, 40 aggravated felons, one convicted murderer and 13 sexual predators, according to the ICE statement. Offenses committed by those arrested included 115 aggravated assaults, 142 DWIs, 55 drug offenses and 31 weapons offenses. The agency also said that 255 of those arrested had been previously deported from the U.S. at least once.
Nearly one-third of those arrested have been ordered removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge, according to ICE.
The agency highlighted some of the worst of the worst offenders nabbed in the operation, which included Selvin Joel Lara Diaz, a 35-year-old previously deported child predator and Mexican mafia member. According to ICE, Lara Diaz was convicted of raping and impregnating his own minor sister. He was arrested hiding in the shelves of a Houston-area grocery store.
Another, Marlon Odir Gomez Hernandez, a 29-year-old suspected MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, had previously been arrested in his home country for aggravated extortion. ICE officials chased Gomez Hernandez into a washateria where he climbed through the ceiling panels and became wedged in a sign on the side of the building, according to the agency.
ICE REVEALS STUNNING STATISTIC AFTER EXPOSING HALLOWEEN WEEKEND'S 'WORST OF THE WORST' ARRESTS
Left to right from top: Selvin Joel Lara Diaz, Salvador Ramirez Carrillo, Rony Andy Martinez Lopez, Vongphachan Phothisome, Rey David Bautista Antonio. (ICE)
Bradford said that thanks to the "unwavering commitment" of the ICE agents to "defend this community from foreign criminal invaders and other illegal aliens who undermine our rule of law, a previously deported Mexican Mafia gang member convicted of raping and impregnating his underage sister who is also wanted in Mexico for murder is no longer free; A four-time deported Paisas gang member arrested for DWI and convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and evading arrest with a vehicle is no longer beating up law-abiding Americans or driving intoxicated on our roadways; and five other criminal alien child predators are no longer free in the community preying on innocent children."
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"While it’s impossible to put a measure on the crimes that will never happen as a result of their efforts during this operation, I can tell you with certainty that they’ve saved lives and prevented countless Houstonians from having to suffer from the nightmares and PTSD that come with being a victim of violent crime," said Bradford.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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