A Brazilian fugitive convicted of raping a 5-year-old child in his home country was arrested on Martha’s Vineyard last week after authorities learned the sex offender was in the US illegally.
Officers with Boston’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), a division of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arrested the pedophile — identified by MV Times as Saulo Cardoso Ferreira — during a traffic stop in West Tisbury last Tuesday, officials said.
“These undocumented Brazilian citizens represent a significant threat to the people of Martha’s Vineyard,” ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons said in a statement. “He sexually assaulted a five-year-old child in his homeland and then fled from the authorities when held accountable for his actions.”
Cardoso Ferreira, 37, was convicted of multiple crimes in Brazil for aggravated rape and sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2019.
But he never showed up for his sentence in May of that year and is believed to have fled the country, ICE said. Authorities in the Brazilian city of Sorriso, Mato Grosso then issued a warrant for his arrest.
Brazilian fugitive Saulo Cardoso Ferreira, 37, was arrested on Martha’s Vineyard last week.Boston 25
Investigators do not know when the convicted sex offender entered the US, but say he crossed into the country illegally — without being examined or received by immigration officials.
ERO Boston only learned of Cardoso Ferreira’s presence on the island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts on September 28, according to ICE.
Officers with Boston ERO arrested him on November 14. He will remain in ERO custody pending removal proceedings, ICE officials said.
ERO officers arrested 46,396 non-citizens with criminal histories across the US in fiscal year 2022, according to ICE.
“ERO Boston will not allow such predators to threaten our residents,” Lyons said. “We will continue to arrest and remove anyone who attempts to use our New England community as a refuge from justice.”
Martha’s Vineyard became the center of a conversation about illegal immigration last year after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent immigrants to the small island, overwhelming its infrastructure and housing market.
However, there is no known link between the migrants flown to the popular holiday destination and Cardoso Ferreira, who may have been in the US, and possibly on the island, for longer as he is believed to have fled Brazil following his conviction in 2019. .
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