Brazilian Who Fled ICE In Hartford Area Now In Custody: Feds

HARTFORD, CT — A Brazilian national who has fled ICE agents multiple times in Hartford and East Hartford this year is now in federal custody.

David X. Sullivan, U.S. attorney for Connecticut, and Michael J. Krol, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, New England, said Friday that Luis Peterson Rohr Ferreira Borges, 24, of Brazil, has been charged with offenses related to his assaulting federal officers during his arrest.

As alleged in court documents and statements made in court, Ferreira Borges has a case pending in Connecticut Superior Court stemming from an arrest on Sept. 16, 2023.

In that case, he is charged with assault of public safety, emergency medical, public transit, or health care personnel; third-degree assault; second-degree breach of peace; interfering with an officer; and first-degree intimidation based on bigotry or bias in the first degree.

On Oct. 10, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) issued an arrest warrant for Ferreira Borges, charging him with being present in the United States in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Officials said that on Jan.28, officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), located and attempted to apprehend Ferreira Borges in Hartford, but he fled in his vehicle.

In that incident, two ICE agents pushed themselves off the vehicle to avoid being run over.

Ferreira Borges then drove on a sidewalk and nearly hit a bystander before fleeing the scene, Sullivan said.

According to federal authorities, on June 7, federal law enforcement officers made another attempt to arrest Ferreira Borges under the DHS warrant in East Hartford.

Ferreira Borges led the officers on a lengthy foot chase before entering his vehicle, which had a license plate registered to another vehicle, authorities said.

Sullivan said Ferreira Borges fled the scene, hitting a law enforcement vehicle with his car as he drove away.

Federal law enforcement officers apprehended Ferreira Borges in the area of Zion Street in Hartford on June 25, Sullivan said.

In that incident, Ferreira Borges was non-compliant and resisted arrest, according to Sullivan.

"After being placed in a government vehicle, he kicked, flailed, and screamed obscenities at ERO officers," wrote Sullivan in a release Friday.

"As the vehicle traveled to the federal building on Main Street in Hartford, Ferreira Borges started to bite one ERO officer who tried to control him, and spit on a second ERO officer who was driving the vehicle."

Sullivan said Ferreira Borges is charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of eight years, and with influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal official, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of six years.

Ferreira Borges, who has been detained since his arrest, appeared in Hartford federal court Thursday, July 17.

This matter is being investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations.

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