Overview
- Authorities identified the primary detainee as Jonny Handy Martinez-Barillas, an alleged MS-13 member previously charged with first-degree murder and firearm possession
- Maryland police declined to enforce an ICE detainer on Martinez-Barillas in 2023, allowing him to remain at large until this week’s operation
- Agents also arrested Danilo Amilcar-Escobar, who was deported three times since April 2024 and faces pending charges of strangulation, domestic battery and cocaine possession
- ICE said both men will remain in federal custody through legal proceedings that are expected to conclude with their removal to Honduras
- The operation follows a 700% increase in assaults on immigration officers and a recent shooting at a U.S. Border Patrol annex that wounded two agents and a police officer