2Boston , MA – Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations New England have taken two convicted sex offenders into custody in separate immigration enforcement actions.

On July 29, officers arrested 66-year-old Dennis Costa, a lawful permanent resident from Portugal, at his home in Fall River. Costa was convicted in Massachusetts in 1991 of rape and abuse of a child, as well as indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, and served a 10-year prison sentence. He remains in ICE custody pending a hearing before an immigration judge.

In a separate case, agents arrested 38-year-old Eynar Estuardo Vielman Jimenez of Guatemala on August 2 in West Roxbury. Jimenez was convicted in 2017 of three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person age 14 or older and served 328 days

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