ICE Houston arrests illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member stuck on local business sign after attempting to flee

HOUSTON - On Oct. 27, ICE arrested Marlon Odir Gomez Hernandez, a 29-year-old illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, after he became stuck on the sign of a Houston-area business while attempting to flee from officers.

"Once again, an illegal alien put the local community in danger by recklessly fleeing from ICE officers who were simply enforcing immigration laws that have been on the books for decades," said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office Director Bret Bradford. "Unfortunately, this has become a daily occurrence for our officers here in Houston thanks to the violent rhetoric being spewed by elected officials encouraging illegal aliens to resist enforcement of the same laws they established."

Gomez illegally entered the U.S. on an unknown date after he was arrested in El Salvador with six other suspected MS-13 gang members on Jan. 26, 2022, for aggravated extortion. He was encountered during a targeted enforcement operation in the Houston area and immediately began to flee. He ran inside the washateria, climbed through the ceiling panels to get on the roof of the business, and then climbed down to the sign, where he became stuck.

ICE officers were eventually able to get him down safely and he was taken to the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe, where he remains pending disposition of his immigration proceedings.