{"id":24172,"date":"2025-11-22T22:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=24172"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:49:25","slug":"ice-arrests-salvadoran-fugitive-who-has-long-criminal-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=24172","title":{"rendered":"ICE Arrests Salvadoran Fugitive Who Has Long Criminal History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently arrested a known El Salvadoran fugitive who had a warrant for his arrest issued in his home country.<\/p>\n

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Cristian Alberto Rivas-Escalante, 29, was picked up at a work site on Marco Island, Fla., in mid-June, reports said. He is one of thousands of criminal aliens being targeted for removal from the country under President Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation directive.<\/p>\n

\u201c(ICE) came to the Island to locate and arrest an individual with an outstanding fugitive warrant. Contrary to some concerns, this was not an immigration raid,\u201d David Ennis, a captain with the Marco Island Police Department (MIPD), noted in an email statement to media and posted on the department\u2019s social media accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgents were specifically focused on locating one individual who was working in the area due to his past criminal activity,\u201d Ennis\u00a0added.<\/p>\n

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Rivas-Escalante was living in Southwest Florida, off the island somewhere, according to Mike Meares, ICE public affairs officer in Tampa in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, Enforcement and Removal Operations.<\/p>\n

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Rivas-Escalante entered the United States illegally in 2015 and is wanted in his home country of El Salvador, according to Meares, who was in Marco Island at the time of the arrest. Classified as a \u201ccriminal alien,\u201d Rivas-Escalante is identified as an associate of the 18th Street Gang.<\/p>\n

The 18th Street Gang is a known rival of MS-13, which the U.S. Department of State officially designated as a foreign terrorist organization on February 20. MS-13 was originally formed in Los Angeles and expanded rapidly throughout Central America after many of its members were deported, the Naples Daily News reported.<\/p>\n

The El Salvador criminal warrant against Rivas-Escalante is for \u201cillicit associations with the 18th Street Gang,\u201d Meares said.<\/p>\n

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