Immigration officials arrest Brazilian national on rape charges

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Eunki Seonwoo
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Warley Neto was arrested in August by Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston. —Courtesy of ICE

A 24-year-old Brazilian national charged with five counts of raping a Massachusetts minor has been apprehended by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston in Edgartown, according to a Tuesday press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 

Customs officials say that Warley Neto allegedly repeatedly assaulted a Massachusetts child.

ERO Boston officers arrested Neto at Dukes County Superior Court in Edgartown on August 23. 

“We are grateful for the cooperation of the Dukes County Sheriff’s Office for prioritizing public safety and allowing Neto’s safe transfer of custody to ERO,” ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd M. Lyons said in the release. “Too often local jurisdictions refuse to honor immigration detainers and release dangerous offenders back into the community to reoffend. ERO Boston will continue to apprehend and remove the most egregious noncitizen offenders from New England.”

The release did not state where the offenses took place.

An immigration detainer — which is a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to state or local law enforcement agencies to notify them as soon as possible before a “removable noncitizen” is released from custody — was issued against Neto on Jan. 12 with the Tisbury Police Department following Neto’s arrest in December for a warrant related to five counts of raping a child and five counts of enticing a minor under 16. Dukes County Superior Court indicted Neto on Jan. 16 on all 10 charges. 

Months later, ERO Boston lodged an immigration detainer against Neto on August 22, with the Dukes County Jail and House of Correction and the Dukes County Superior Court, leading to his arrest on the following day. 

Tisbury Police Lt. Bill Brigham said additional details could not be released due to the nature of the alleged crimes. He also said this is a pending court case. 

This wasn’t the first time Neto was arrested. The release states ERO Boston had lodged an immigration detainer against Neto with the Dukes County Jail and House of Correction on Feb. 18, 2023, after Edgartown Police arrested him for strangulation or suffocation, assault and battery on a family/household member, and threatening to commit a crime. 

Edgartown District Court found Neto guilty of these charges on June 8, 2023. According to the release, Edgartown District Court sentenced Neto to 364 days in prison but “suspended all but 90 days of the sentence.” 

According to ICE, Neto “unlawfully entered the United States near Paso Del Norte, Texas, on March 11, 2018.” U.S. Border Patrol served Neto a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge the following day. Neto was released from custody on March 13, 2018.

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55 COMMENTS

  1. This should come as no surprise to anyone who follows the news. The Biden/Harris administration has allowed over 10 million illegals into the country…so far. Do the math. A certain percentage of those people will be criminals and others are turning to crime as they struggle to survive in our overwhelmed cities. Ms. Harris is now running for president saying she was tough on the Southern Border. This is a lie and everyone knows it. Every day, we read about crime from illegals. New gangs are forming weekly (see recent activity in Denver). Illegal immigration cost US taxpayers over $150 BILLION last year. Massachusetts spent $1 Billion in 2023 and is expected to continue to pay more into the future. When there is anarchy at the border, the entire country becomes a border state. No country can long survive this type of crisis for long. Ms. Harris failed miserably as our Border Czar and should not be rewarded with our votes as she runs for the highest position in the land.

    • Peter, every day we read about Americans who break the law. They didn’t have to cross a border to break the law.

    • This guy entered the country illegally in 2018.
      Do you remember who was President then? Take your time, it may come to you.

      • You’re funny, Jim. Is this a real issue to you or not? Our Southern border has been a problem for years. 10 million illegals crossed before Biden/Harris took over. And then it took just 3 1/2 years to let in another 10 million. There is NO defense for what has happened along our Southern Border. Build that wall! Fire Kamala! Let’s get serious about this issue. If Congress won’t do it, then the president must.

      • Yeah Jim… I was waiting for your predicable response. Do you remember the wall he was trying to build that every democrat tried to fight him at every stage of the way? Don’t tell me you think that DT wasn’t trying to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country more than sleepy Joe and the Vice Cackler.
        Dems own this regardless of who is in the White House.

      • Can we differentiate between “migrants” and “illegals?” This kind of racist rhetoric is so disturbing.

    • Every day ? What’r u reading ?
      Gangs forming weekly ? Are they all Latino border-crossers, and have you done this research ?
      Hyperbole. It’s not just for orange folks anymore !
      Shut off the TV, stroll in to town, and maybe strike up a conversation with some of the wonderful, warm-natured, hard-working Brazilian and Central American ladies and gentlemen who keep this island going.

  2. PS: There are currently over 355,000 illegals in MA claiming aid (housing/food/education/healthcare etc.). Gov. Healy, where is this headed?

  3. Way to go Edgartown Court System. Make him serve only 90 days of a 364 day sentence. Incredible.

      • No, just deport them ASAP. We don’t need to spend tax dollars for illegal criminals residing in our jail system.

        • Eddie, my understanding is that if someone is convicted of a crime in the US, they serve their incarceration and then they are deported upon release.

      • Well Mary Trump would have to be charged, and then found guilty. I know it sounds crazy but that’s the way the legal system works.

        • Jerome, trump HAS been found guilty of MANY crimes. It seems that one of the reasons he wants to be president again is immunity. He “hired” judges sympathetic to his crimes.
          One of his crimes that I’m most concerned about is his disregard for security information. When the judicial system was notified that Trump was storing classified information at several personal locations, I was aghast! Other Americans who commit those crimes serve jail time—for relatively minor violations compared to Trump. To preserve our rule of law Trump needs to be in prison.

        • Jerome, It is an injustice that Trump has not been incarcerated for his crimes. Other people (read, wasn’t given money by a rich daddy to stay out of the Vietnam War) have had to serve time in prison for lesser offenses.
          “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr.

  4. Honestly, this is *exactly* what Donald Trump is always going on about, sickos liek this man who is accussed of child rape, here as a “migrant” (or some other softer word for illegally here) and it’s the reason we beed a border and border laws—the best cuance at which Donald Trump defeated because he was AFRAID that it would make BIDEN look good, that He Himself would “lose” on the political equation (which of course makes him an insecure loser for putting his personal interest ahead of America).

    Moreover, if Trump had allowed for Republicans to pass the bill—he controls them, that’s what you won—maybe this crime wouldn’t have allegedly happened. Thanks fo our sheriff for turning this person over to customs so he can lawfully be deported, just imagine if one of the many here who believe in no borders were actually right, the problem they rarely understand is that *one* of the possible outcomes of their utopian fantasies is a situation like this one. Thankful to our law enforcement and good on the MVT for reporting this story without problems.

      • Trump was impeached twice—lot of good it did. He wanted to remain in power indefinitely, like his friend Putin.
        Trump asked his advisers in the White House how he could remain in power forever. Sort of like how he asked Georgia officials for only 11,000 more votes. Just find more votes. Just find a way for trump to stay in office forever. So a few weeks ago he says we will only have to vote for him one more time and then he will fix it so we don’t ever have to vote again, he wasn’t kidding!

    • John, just exactly what does, “Close the border now” mean to you?
      No visitors? No Americans traveling to Europe?
      What in the world are you suggesting?

    • John—Closing the borders works very well for North Korea.
      Why wouldn’t it work just as well here ?
      It will be GREAT when “dear leader” gets into office again and declares himself
      a dictator. We won’t need any more elections. What a pain they are. Our children
      will learn the “real” truth about our country’s’ history, and there will
      never be any fake news– how great would that be ?
      Not only that,but just think of all the time those childless cat ladies can save
      by not having to go shopping and choose what kind of pant suit
      that will wear in the office–dear leader will tell us what to wear.
      No more of those pretty women running around in “provocative” clothing
      asking to be sexually assaulted. And we won’t even have to keep track of everyone’s
      silly birthdays. We will only have to celebrate “dear leader’s” –June 14 th .
      Make America just like North Korea !!!!!

      • Don, you make good points. Most Americans don’t want Trump’s version of America where he is Dictator number one, forever.
        I’m reminded of the people Trump keeps
        the closest, people like Roger Stone who used white supremacy hand signals in a bar to other white supremacists. I’ve been very naive about all the KKK symbols floating around. Just today learned that the KKK cross is four Ks back to back in a square shape that forms a stylized cross that stands for Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it anymore.

  6. There is something seriously wrong with our justice system if they won’t even stand up and do rhe right thing for children.

  7. This individual story could be told tens of thousands of times across the country. Unfortunately, second part of story of actually being deported is not common at all. Remember when you go to Vote this fall who the person is who will actually fix this problem and it will not be the people who started it.

    • “Vote this fall [for the] person .. who will actually fix this problem” – he had a chance to fix it for good from 2016 to 2020. Why should I give him a second chance when he failed the first time, not mention that I had to pay for it and not Mexico? I’m being dead serious, Bob!

    • Bob–Am I missing something ?
      This guy crossed the border in 2018
      he was apprehended by border officials
      and was released 2 days later.
      Free to roam the U.S looking for victimes..
      When I go to Vote this fall I will vote for
      the person is who will actually mitigate this problem
      there is no “fixing” it .
      and it will not be for the the stupid racist
      who thinks a “big beautiful impenetrable wall
      with a door” will solve the problem.
      We tried that for 4 years and spent billions
      of dollars of not Mexico’s money.
      You know, Bob– one of the definitions of insanity is to
      keep trying what has not worked in the past.
      But i don’t know, perhaps if trump is elected this time,
      The Mexicans will actually pay for the wall, and with good reason
      .. it might actually stop the estimated 2,000 guns a day
      smuggled into Mexico from the U.S going into the hands
      of the drug cartels.
      https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/2000-illegal-weapons-cross-us-mexico-border-every-day/
      it goes both ways– We supply the demand for the drugs and
      the weapons to keep the Mexican officials at bay and
      facilitate the banking transactions so the cartells can deliver.
      And they do deliver.
      And I guess that you think that when the U.S has a
      dictator, everything will get fixed on the first day ?
      No inflation
      No unemployment
      No homeless people
      Gas under $2 a gallon
      No wars anywhere in the world
      ( like when you know who left office)
      Yeah, Bob– It will all be wonderful
      And I will not vote for the “person” or “people”
      who started it- Yeah, “our founding fathers”and the people who wrote
      our constitution are all dead you know–
      Nope– I’m not going to vote for any of them–
      I’m gonna vote for Kamala.

    • Bob– Of course xenophobic people will focus on individual
      cases and extrapolate them to reinforce their beliefs.
      People with arachnophobia or ophidophobia will view spiders or snakes they
      encounter as larger than they actually are.
      But the facts are that immigrants are less likely than U.S born citizens
      to commit a violent crime.
      https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/debunking-myth-migrant-crime-wave
      https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/immigrants-are-significantly-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-the-us-born/
      https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find
      https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythical-tie-between-immigration-and-crime
      I can go on and on–
      And regardless of what some people believe because of the fear
      mongering of right wing media outlets or the good people on
      right wing hate radio, violent crime in the U.S has dropped by nearly 30%
      since Biden took office
      “Data from the first half of 2023, from government and private sector sources show that the murder rate has dropped, as much as 12% in as many as 90 cities across the United States.” You won’t hear it from fox news, but the murder rate in Chicago is
      down 12% 2021-23. That’s either because of Biden’s policies, or all those immigrants
      are teaching Americans how to play nice.
      Just last night, one of you-know-who’s 30 plus lies during the debate was that
      violent crime is up.
      It’s just not true.
      Not even close
      Crime is down bigly.

  8. Bob, Biden has deported tens of thousands of people! I knew a teenager who was going to be deported for a speeding ticket! People are constantly, constantly being deported when they break the law!

  10. I just wish Trump would leave it at ” every single crime committed by someone here illegally is 100 % preventable ”
    But I get it. What’s a few dead joggers when NGO’s and hotel owners are raking in billions

    • ”every single crime committed by someone here legally is 100 % preventable ”
      Trump is a criminal.
      A rapist.

  11. When I was (a lot ) younger the idea of a Reconquista of the United States appealed to me.

    No longer.

    It is time for goodhearted people on Martha’s Vineyard who decried what they called Ron DeSantis’s “stunt” to fly Venezuelan illegals to the Vineyard to pull their heads out of the warm sands of South Beach and grasp the disaster that the open Southern border and the concept of sanctuary cities and states is actually doing to this country. Illegals are also entering at will through literal gaps in fences in San Diego.

    Vineyarders are somewhat protected and buffered by the moat of Vineyard Sound.

    Not so the rest of the country. For an overview of the developing crime wave and the character of these crimes, please see (and watch the embedded videos):
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ice-headlines-are-wake-call-nation-sleepwalking-migrant-crisis-disaster

    The formation of gangs and explosion of organized crime in US cities near and far is a frightening development that Vineyarders ignore at their peril—this is touching all of us, and huge money streams are being diverted to deal with the myriad problems created by illegal immigration.

    The do-gooder idea of inviting unfettered entry of unvetted individuals to the US is and always was insane.

    It’s time to stop being sentimental and turning a blind but privileged and protected eye to the unfolding reality that is wrecking other less protected Americans’ lives. Close the border now. Deport illegals now. Foreign nationals must go through legal channels to enter.

    • Katherine– do you know how many of those Venezuelans
      have committed crimes ? I can’t find any.
      And just so you know, crossing the border, turning yourself
      in to a border patrol agent and requesting asylum is
      a legal chanel to enter the United States.
      I have to say though, that your comment about the
      Vineyard being protected by our “moat” is quite amusing.
      Is that because you think immigrants can’t swim, or there are
      ICE agents checking ID’s at the steamship ticket offices ?

  12. Katherine, NO ONE has suggested that we have “unfettered entry of unvetted individuals” at our borders. Whoever told you that is lying.

  13. Kate,
    “The do-gooder idea of inviting unfettered entry of unvetted individuals to the US is and always was insane.” Yes, Kate such an idea is insane on its face, even if such a notion underpinned the policy. But the true intent of the policy is far more destructive. The invasion (and there is no other word for it) of some 15 million illegals during Biden’s reign alone – all with the assistance of the government and NGOs – is part of the menu of demographic reconstruction, with a main course of voter fraud. Consider the following. Universal mail-in voting is now the rule in most states, not the exception. In many key, battleground states, simply getting a government issued license – drivers’, fishing, hunting, boating – automatically registers the recipient on the voting rolls. Illegals are now allowed to acquire such licenses nationwide, and therefore their names are placed on the voting rolls. Granted, they are not supposed to vote. It would be unlawful for them to vote, a felony, actually. But at best, it’s an honor system. Once their names are on the voter registration rolls, these names are eligible for mail-in ballots. These ballots can be harvested even without the knowledge or permission of the “voter.” And once such a ballot is removed from the envelope and tabulated, it’s virtually untraceable. How did hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots miraculously appear in those key battleground states in 2020, those states which so coincidently stopped counting in the middle of the night? When it’s broken, this is how it works.

  14. Can’t wait for Shamala try to defend the Buden/Harris administration, especially their disastrous open borders policy in the debate. Get your popcorn!

  15. Mary we dont set mousetraps in places where there are no mice. To suggest that it is racist to put a wall between us and Mexico when we don’t put one on the border with Canada is not thinking clearly.

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