ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers in Atlanta arrested a fugitive wanted for aggravated assault and illegal alien smuggling. The arrest was part of ongoing ICE ERO Atlanta enforcement operations targeting criminal aliens with serious prior convictions in the Georgia area.
ICE Homeland Security Investigations and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special agents captured Orville Andrew Pernell, a 32-year-old Jamaican citizen, in Savannah, Georgia following a multinational manhunt. Pernell is accused of committing a murder in St. Lucia in 2020 and had escaped custody twice before fleeing to the United States.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers in Atlanta arrested 85 illegal aliens who had been convicted of assault and other violent crimes. The operation was part of targeted enforcement efforts in the Atlanta area focused on removing criminal aliens who pose a threat to public safety.
The ICE Director issued a statement regarding immigration enforcement operations in Georgia, where federal agents have arrested approximately 1,500 illegal aliens statewide as part of targeted enforcement efforts aimed at protecting public safety and upholding the rule of law.
Homeland Security officials report that approximately 1,500 undocumented immigrants have been arrested in Georgia since January 22, reflecting the Trump administration's immigration enforcement posture. The arrests included a 10-day enforcement action called Operation Safeguard, during which federal agencies conducted worksite raids across the state.
Hector David Sagastume Rivas, a 21-year-old Honduran illegal immigrant who was caught and released at the southern border by the Biden administration in March 2021, has been charged with capital murder in the strangling death of Camillia Williams, a 52-year-old Georgia mother of five and grandmother. A judge had ordered Rivas removed in July 2023, but he remained in the country.
A previously deported illegal immigrant was arrested in Georgia on child predator charges by ICE. The case is among several in Georgia where illegal aliens with prior deportation histories have been charged with crimes against children, prompting calls for stronger enforcement of immigration detainers.
An illegal immigrant who had been previously arrested for DUI and released by the Biden administration despite an active ICE detainer has been charged in the killing of a Georgia woman. The case highlights concerns about jurisdictions that release criminal aliens without honoring ICE detainer requests.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally, has been charged with malice murder and other offenses in the death of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student found dead on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. Ibarra was arrested after being identified through security camera footage and other evidence.
Orville Andrew Pernell, a Jamaican citizen wanted for murder in Saint Lucia, has been indicted in Atlanta on a federal firearm charge. Pernell, who escaped custody during his murder trial in St. Lucia and again after being arrested in Jamaica, was apprehended by ICE and ATF agents in Savannah, Georgia. He had entered the U.S. under a false identity in December 2022.
