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March
OPERATION SUFFOLK PREDATOR’S FINAL ARREST
Suffolk Life/James Montalto
After conducting a local sweep of registered sex offenders on March 2, federal Immigration andCustoms Enforcement agents in collaboration with Suffolk police officials arrested 28 residing inthe county illegally. Those targeted during the sweep had prior convictions of rape, sexual abuse,sexual misconduct and forcible touching, according to ICE. The 28 arrested under Operation SuffolkPredator reside throughout the western portion of Suffolk and had prior felony or misdemeanorconvictions for sex offenses committed in the county. Since July 2003, the sweeps have caught 5,000sexual predators who should have been deported