{"id":2478659,"date":"2025-08-25T17:55:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-ice-arrests-convicted-killer-pedophile-more\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:55:57","slug":"exclusive-ice-arrests-convicted-killer-pedophile-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-ice-arrests-convicted-killer-pedophile-more\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: ICE Arrests Convicted Killer, Pedophile, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-ice-arrests-convicted-killer-pedophile-more%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2478659&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts to arrest hazardous illegal immigrants labeled as the &#8220;worst of the worst.&#8221; Despite political support for some undocumented immigrants, ICE agents continue to apprehend individuals with serious criminal records, including violent offenses such as manslaughter, drug trafficking, assault, and sexual exploitation. The article highlights several specific cases, including Jung Choi, a South Korean national convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and other convicted criminals from countries such as Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Vietnam, and laos. A senior Department of Homeland Security official emphasized that ICE is prioritizing the removal of dangerous criminals to protect American communities. The piece reflects the management&#8217;s commitment to public safety by focusing on the deportation of violent offenders rather than broader immigration enforcement.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While Democrats spring to the aid of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/nearly-2-5m-people-sign-000457066.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-top-immigration-adviser-biden-agenda-would-fundamentally-erase-very-essence-of-americas-nationhood\/\" title=\"Ex-Top ... Adviser: Biden Agenda \u2018Would Fundamentally Erase Very Essence Of America\u2019s Nationhood\u2019\">criminal illegal immigrants<\/a><\/a>, U.S. Immigration &amp; Customs Enforcement agents continue to clear the nation&rsquo;s streets of the &ldquo;worst of the worst.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, ICE officers arrested some very violent illegal immigrants, including &ldquo;pedophiles, drug traffickers, abusers, and other violent thugs,&rdquo; a senior Department of Homeland Security official told The Federalist in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>From Parole to Deportation&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>The list of the apprehended includes <a href=\"https:\/\/benitolink.com\/jung-choi-sentenced-to-11-years-for-voluntary-manslaughter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jung Choi<\/a>, a 53-year-old California resident and South Korean national convicted in 2020 of voluntary manslaughter, according to Department of Homeland Security documents exclusively provided to The Federalist. In<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/article\/san-benito-county-murder-conviction-sang-ji\/31826132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> 2017,<\/a> Choi assisted a male companion, Sang Ji, who murdered his wife, Yoon &ldquo;Clara&rdquo; Ji, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casemine.com\/judgement\/us\/641bd61db5022d022eae7769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criminal case<\/a>. Yoon Ji died &ldquo;as the result of head injuries caused by blunt trauma suffered from repeated blows by an object.&rdquo; The woman&rsquo;s body was discovered in a ravine near San Juan Bautista, California.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ji and Choi were arrested in December 2017, four days after one of Ji&rsquo;s daughters filed a missing person&rsquo;s report for their mother,&rdquo; San Benito Live<a href=\"https:\/\/sanbenitolive.com\/ji-found-guilty-of-murdering-late-wife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> reported<\/a>. &ldquo;The daughter contacted the San Benito County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office after becoming suspicious of Ji&rsquo;s claim that his wife had gone to South Korea to care for her ailing mother.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sang Ji was convicted of first-degree murder and <a href=\"https:\/\/benitolink.com\/sang-jis-murder-conviction-appeal-fails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentenced to 25 years<\/a> in California state prison.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Choi was paroled on Friday. ICE agents were waiting for her. She&rsquo;ll be heading back to South Korea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are not going to allow this murderer and criminal illegal alien to remain in our country,&rdquo; the DHS official told The Federalist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>More from the &lsquo;Worst of the Worst&rsquo; Files<\/h2>\n<p>Also arrested:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&rsaquo; Marion Andres Gomez-Arenas, 41. The criminal illegal alien from Colombia has a long rap sheet that includes 23 criminal arrests and 18 convictions in the state of Georgia, according to DHS. Gomez-Arenas&rsquo; record includes charges of fraud, forgery, shoplifting, driving under the influence, obstruction of a law enforcement officer, possession of tools for commission of a crime, false identification documents, and a probation violation.<\/p>\n<p>&rsaquo; Arturo Serrano-Zeferino, a foreign national from Mexico. He&rsquo;s been convicted on charges of felony stalking, domestic violence, and a protection order violation in Wake County, North Carolina,&nbsp; according to DHS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&rsaquo; Zoilo Holguin-Tavarez, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic. According to DHS, he has been convicted of possession of illegal substances with intent to deliver and carrying a firearm during the commission of a drug trafficking crime in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&rsaquo; Kelin Henriquez-Ruiz, a Nicaraguan foreign national convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-law-enforcement-officials-shut-down-antifa-counter-protest-of-protect-texas-kids-demonstration\/\" title=\"Texas Law Enforcement Officials Shut Down Antifa Counter-Protest Of \u2018Protect Texas Kids\u2019 Demonstration\">assault causing bodily injury<\/a> in Austin, Texas, DHS reports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&rsaquo; Rigoberto Morales Hernandez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of alien smuggling in Albany, N.Y., according to Homeland Security.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&rsaquo; Miguel Martinez. DHS says the criminal illegal alien from Mexico has been convicted on charges of third-degree sexual&nbsp;exploitation of a minor and disseminating obscenity to a minor in Washington County,&nbsp;North Carolina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&rsaquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/inmatereleases.org\/california-inmate-locator\/?abc=X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xaykham Mannavong<\/a>, a foreign national from Laos. He was convicted on charges of aggravated assault with a gun in Los Angeles, according to DHS. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&rsaquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/most-wanted\/madai-perez-perez#:~:text=Summary,than%20a%20year%20in%20jail.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Madai Perez-Perez<\/a>, a 33-year-old criminal illegal alien from Guatemala. DHS reports that Perez was convicted on a charge of willful poisoning of food on a person in Placer County, California.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&rsaquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/most-wanted\/long-duc-tran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Long Duc Tran<\/a>, an illegal immigrant from Vietnam. Tran, according to DHS, was convicted on charges of assault in Montgomery County, Maryland, and for aggravated malicious wounding with a firearm in Arlington, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Day after day, ICE is going after the worst of the worst because under President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem DHS will always put AMERICANS first,&rdquo; the senior DHS official said in the statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats aid criminals; ICE arrests violent illegal immigrants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2478660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-25-at-3.48.09-PM-1024x523.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4283,61972,8364],"class_list":["post-2478659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-arrests","tag-convicted-killer","tag-ice"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-25-at-3.48.09-PM-1024x523.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478663,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478659\/revisions\/2478663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}