U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement highlighted five arrests made by agents across the United States on Wednesday. All five people are convicted criminals and Mexican nationals.
The criminal charges and convictions of the undocumented immigrants also included domestic violence, assault, and child molestation, among others.
ICE Philadelphia arrested Jose Nehemias Zavala-Mejia, a 50-year-old Salvadoran national, as a violent criminal alien. Zavala-Mejia has a conviction for aggravated robbery in Kansas and received a 104-month prison sentence. He is featured on ICE's Worst of the Worst criminal aliens list.
Four Mexican nationals unlawfully in the United States face charges for their alleged roles in operating an alien smuggling organization that has been active for the last two years in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The defendants smuggled hundreds of migrants weekly across the Canadian border into northern New York in exchange for thousands of dollars per person, engaging in multiple high-speed vehicle chases with law enforcement.
About 120 people packed a Cumberland County Board of Commissioners meeting to demand the jail stop housing immigrants for federal authorities. The number of people detained under ICE orders at Cumberland County Jail has hovered at roughly 100 per month since President Trump took office, sparking a grassroots campaign called No ICE for Maine which has collected nearly 3,000 petition signatures.
Jon Luke Evans, a Jamaican national serving as a reserve officer with the Old Orchard Beach Police Department, was arrested by ICE in July after attempting to illegally purchase a firearm. A judge granted Evans voluntary departure rather than formal deportation, while ICE is investigating how he was hired despite having overstayed his visa since October 2023.
ICE arrested Jon Luke Evans, a Jamaican national employed as a reserve police officer in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, after his attempt to purchase a firearm triggered an ATF alert revealing he had overstayed his visa since October 2023. The Old Orchard Beach Police Department said Evans had passed E-Verify and a full background check before being hired as a seasonal officer, raising serious questions about federal vetting systems.
An investigative report details allegations against Xing Feng "Tommy" Dong, the owner of Canton Wok restaurant in Lewiston who was detained by ICE in May 2025. A former employee's account includes claims of workplace abuse, violation of protection orders, and suspected drug use, contrasting sharply with the sympathetic media coverage portraying his detention as unjust.
Maine's Houlton Border Patrol Sector documented a record 113 migrant apprehensions in April 2025, bringing fiscal year 2025 totals to 357, already surpassing the previous three years' combined figures. Recent months have also seen arrests of gang-affiliated individuals from MS-13 and Tren de Aragua at the northern border.
Rafael Omar Ojeda Lopez, 44, from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl into Maine. Agents arrested Lopez in Rockland, Maine during a controlled purchase of a kilogram of fentanyl for $40,000, which was found to contain a mixture of fentanyl, caffeine, heroin, and xylazine, a powerful tranquilizer.
