ICE, Border Patrol continue to nab bad hombres along U.S.-Mexico border

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested an illegal immigrant from Honduras on assault charges moments before he was set to board a flight out of the country last week.

McAllen police called ICE agents to intercept 31-year-old Andres Roberto Ortiz about an hour before his scheduled deportation on Feb. 9 over evidence that allegedly links him to the aggravated assault of a McAllen, Texas man last month, the Brownsville Herald reports.

“Ortiz’s arrest come more than a week since officers responded to a rollover crash Jan. 30 at about 12:30 a.m. near the 3100 block of westbound Frontage Road after witnesses reported a driver crashed an SUV into a canal and fled the scene,” according a police statement cited by the news site.

Police found the SUV’s owner – a 56-year-old man who had been badly beaten – at a home on West Kennedy Avenue and later determined Ortiz attacked the man and stole his vehicle after arriving on a bus from Houston the same night. The victim remains in critical condition.

More here