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By Dan Gooding
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A Salvadoran man will be deported from the U.S. for a third time, after he was arrested for robbery and auto-theft offenses.
ICE officers detained Raul Orlando Ramos-Guido, 38, in Maryland on July 1 and plan to remove him from the U.S. once more.
The known MS-13 gang member was previously deported in 2014 and 2018 but reentered the country at an unknown date and location, ending up in Annapolis.
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"Raul Orlando Ramos-Guido has displayed a habit for breaking the law in Maryland," ERO Baltimore Field Office Director Matthew Elliston said in a press release Friday. "Ramos was convicted of robbery, auto theft and disorderly conduct in addition to unlawfully reentering the United States after having been removed."
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Ramos was deported twice before
Ramos was first arrested on Dec. 15, 2006, for disorderly conduct in Hyattsville and he was sentenced to two years of probation the following March.
Then in November 2007, Ramos was arrested again, this time by the Montgomery County Police Department, accused of motor vehicle theft, unlawful taking and theft of more than $500.
In Dec. 2008, before he could be sentenced, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) issued him with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration judge, who ordered that he be removed from the U.S.
Ramos was then arrested again in Jan. 2009, accused of robbery in Calvert County.
A judge at the Circuit Court for Montgomery Country in Rockville convicted Ramos in June 2009 over the vehicle theft charges, sentencing him to two years imprisonment, before another in Calvert County sentenced him to five years over the robbery incident.
Ramos was eventually deported to El Salvador for the first time on Jan. 17, 2014, following a request from ICE officials in Baltimore.
The man returned to the U.S. sometime after this and he was arrested in Falls Church, Virginia, on April 13, 2015, over his decision to reenter the country following removal.
After 36 months in a federal prison, Ramos was deported again in Feb. 2018.
It isn't clear when the Salvadoran made his way back to the U.S. the latest time, but ICE said Friday that officers arrested him at his residence in Annapolis on July 1.
He is currently in custody, pending his removal once more.
A known member of a notorious gang
Ramos is a self-admitted member of the MS-13 gang, according to ICE.
The group was set up by Salvadoran migrants in the U.S. who had fled the civil war there, but the Department of Justice has said its members are known to be well-organized and involved in "lucrative illegal enterprises".
"[Ramos] posed a significant threat to our Maryland residents, and we cannot allow such threats to remain in our communities," Elliston added. "ERO Baltimore will continue to prioritize public safety by apprehending and removing the most egregious noncitizen offenders from our Maryland streets."
Another member of the gang was arrested in New York on June 17, wanted on a murder charge in El Salvador.
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