U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston, with assistance from ERO Honduras and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement in Honduras, removed Fredy Rufino Aguilar-Hernandez, a 38-year-old unlawfully present Honduran national, from the United States Oct. 25. Aguilar-Hernandez is wanted in Honduras for murder.
Aguilar-Hernandez was flown aboard a flight coordinated by ICE’s Air Operations Unit from the Alexandria Staging Facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, to the Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Upon arrival, he was transferred into the custody of Honduran authorities.
On Sept. 12, 2018, Aguilar-Hernandez entered the United States as a nonimmigrant in Atlanta, Georgia. He was authorized to remain in the country until March 11, 2019, but failed to depart.
On Jan. 29, 2019, ERO Houston was notified by the ICE National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center that Aguilar-Hernandez was wanted in Honduras for murder. Based on that alert, ERO Houston fugitive operations officers immediately began actively working leads to locate him.
On May 23, 2024, ERO Houston fugitive operations officers successfully located Aguilar-Hernandez at a residence in Galveston, Texas, and he was taken into custody. On July 31, an immigration judge with the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review ordered Aguilar-Hernandez removed from the United States to Honduras. ICE officers carried out that order and he was removed to Honduras Oct. 25.