U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported an illegal alien and admitted meth user who cut his own throat with a knife in a Jackson Hole, Wyoming grocery store last month.
It’s the third time that Salvador Catarino-Jacinto, 33, has been deported, ICE told Cowboy State Daily.
Local law enforcement responded to reports of a man wielding a knife at an Albertsons on March 9.
Catarino-Jacinto, was “behind the customer service counter with a large — 8 inch — knife holding it to his throat,” according to the affidavit first reported by Cowboy State Daily. After refusing to drop the knife, he made “severe lacerations” in his throat, then was tased and subdued.
“Upon officer arrival they subdued him, using less lethal impact munitions and a taser,” said Jackson Police Department Lt. Russ Ruschill previously told the Daily. “There were no (gun) shots fired – any shots heard came from a less-lethal 12-gauge shotgun and a taser.”
Catarino-Jacinto tested positive meth when he was being treated in the hospital and “admitted to medical staff that he uses methamphetamine regularly,” the affidavit said. He faces a misdemeanor drug-use charge.
Catarino-Jacinto was deported on March 25, and previously deported in July 2012 and May 2017, ICE told the Daily.
This story is wild.
✅ Illegal alien from Mexico
✅ Deported twice before
✅ Regular meth user
✅ Held a knife to his own throat at an Albertson's, forcing an evacuationThank you, @POTUS for deporting this illegal criminal.https://t.co/Xm1yWifa8s
— Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) April 23, 2026
“Thank you, [President Donald Trump] for deporting this illegal criminal,” U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming said in a post on X.
