Yosmar Imai Bravo-Ortiz/Guatemala/Sexual Assault

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended 21-year-old Yosmar Imai Bravo-Ortiz, an illegally present Guatemalan alien charged with second-degree felony sexual assault, fourth-degree felony sexual assault and felony risk of injury to minor. He was arrested in Hartford, Conn. on Feb. 20.

“Yosmar Imai Bravo-Ortiz has been charged with sex crimes against a member of our Connecticut community,” ICE Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde said in a statement. “Bravo-Ortiz represents a threat to our New England neighborhoods that ICE will not tolerate. We remain committed to our mission of prioritizing public safety by arresting and removing criminal alien threats to our residents.”

U.S. Border Patrol arrested Bravo-Ortiz on October 25, 2018, after he illegally entered the United States near Sasabe, Arizona. Later that year, he was released into America by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Officers from the Hartford Police Department arrested Bravo-Ortiz May 14, 2024, and charged him with the sex crimes. It is not clear why the Biden administration turned him loose.

Officers with ICE Boston’s Hartford field office arrested Yosmar Imai Bravo-Ortiz, 21, in Hartford Feb. 20. Bravo-Ortiz remains in ICE custody.