Immigration Officials Arrest Sex Offenders In Hudson Valley

MID-HUDSON VALLEY, NY — Multiple sex offenders were arrested in the Hudson Valley during a national operation by deportation officers with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations.

Authorities said 12 unlawfully present noncitizens were apprehended in New York after they were convicted of sex offenses during a nationwide enforcement effort from Oct. 22 through Nov. 4.

The following were arrested in the New York Field Office area of responsibility in the Hudson Valley:

• A 56-year-old citizen of Mexico in Middletown, New York convicted by the Warwick Town Court of misdemeanor stalking in the third degree: cause person to fear injury/sex offense/kidnapping/death.
• A 39-year-old citizen of Honduras in Newburgh, New York convicted by the Supreme Court of California of felony lewd or lascivious acts with a child less than 14 years old.
• A 47-year-old citizen of Canada in Spring Valley, New York, convicted in the Putnam County Court of felony promotion of an obscene sexual performance by a child less than 17 years of age.

Others in New York were arrested in Levittown, Smithtown, New York City, Springfield Gardens, Wyandanch, Brentwood, Queens Village, Brooklyn and West Islip.