CONNECTICUT, United States (CMC) – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says it has arrested and deported a Jamaican fugitive wanted in his home country for shooting with intent.

ICE said on Wednesday that it handed over 30-year-old Leroy Neville White to Jamaican authorities after he served a prison sentence in Connecticut

“Leroy Neville White attempted to flee justice in his home country and take refuge in the United States. He then continued to break the law in Connecticut,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde. “White is a violent criminal and presented a significant threat to the residents of our neighbourhoods.”

The director added, “ICE will not tolerate such a threat. We will continue to arrest and remove egregious alien offenders from New England.”

ICE said Jamaican authorities issued a warrant for White’s arrest on December 31, 2018 for the offense of shooting with intent. US Border Patrol arrested him on July 11, 2022 after he illegally entered the US near San Ysidro, California, and served him the next day with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration judge, and released him on an order of recognisance.

An immigration judge ordered White removed from the United States to Jamaica on April 12, 2023, ICE said. In December of that year, the New Haven Police Department in Connecticut arrested him for threatening in the first degree with hazard to terrorise.

He was arrested and convicted in April 2024 and sentenced to five years’ incarceration – suspended after one year, and three years’ probation. However ICE had placed a detainer on White and when he completed that one-year suspended sentence he was detained by their agents at Hartford Correctional Center and deported.