Cesar Eliseo Sorto-Amaya, 28, a citizen of El Salvador convicted in absentia in April 2024 of double aggravated homicide and sentenced to 50 years in prison in El Salvador, was charged with illegally reentering the United States and appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jose R. Almonte in Newark federal court. Since 2015, Sorto-Amaya had been deported from and illegally returned to the United States three separate times, including once after a weapons possession conviction in Elizabeth, New Jersey. El Salvadoran authorities alerted ICE to his likely whereabouts, and agents located him on the front porch of a home at an address provided by Salvadoran law enforcement.

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