Federal immigration agents in Kansas City arrested a 34-year-old man from Mexico last week who was previously deported several times and was identified as a gang member, according to a news release from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Kansas City .

Agents with the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), arrested Mario Torrez-Lopez in a targeted enforcement action on July 20.

A federal grand jury indicted Torrez-Lopez on Wednesday with returning to the United States after being deported for a felony conviction. Court documents show immigration officials arrested him in Wyandotte County.

Torrez-Lopez’s previous order of removal has been reinstated, according to immigration officials. He was in ICE custody while a

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