ICE arrests suspected MS-13 gang member convicted of robbery attempt in New York

WASHINGTON - ICE Buffalo arrested Josue Coreas-Chavez, a 29-year-old criminal illegal alien from El Salvador and suspected MS-13 gang member April 18, upon his release from Wyoming Correctional Facility in Attica, New York.

"In January 2025, the Suffolk County Court sentenced Coreas-Chavez to three years of incarceration and five years of supervised release for second-degree attempted robbery," said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Executive Associate Director Marcos Charles. "He also received a sentence of one to three years for conspiracy and an additional 364 days for criminal facilitation. Coreas-Chavez faces additional felony and misdemeanor charges, including robbery, kidnapping, assault, coercion, unlawful imprisonment and grand larceny."

Coreas-Chavez illegally entered the United States on March 22, 2014, near Hidalgo, Texas, without inspection or admission by a U.S. immigration officer. The U.S. Border Patrol arrested the then 17-year-old as an unaccompanied juvenile and served him a notice to appear. Subsequently, Border Patrol officials transferred him to the Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, which later released him to his father in New York.

Coreas-Chavez is detained in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

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