U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Jamaican fugitive wanted in his home country for shooting with intent and removed Leroy Neville White, 30, from the United States to Jamaica on January 30 and turned him over to Jamaican authorities.
White was convicted in Connecticut for threatening first-degree with hazard to terrorise.
Jamaican authorities issued a warrant for White’s arrest on December 31, 2018, for the offence of shooting with intent.
The U.S. Border Patrol arrested White on July 11, 2022, after he illegally entered the U.S. near San Ysidro, California, and served him the next day with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge and released him on an order of recognizance.
An immigration judge with the DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review in Atlanta, Georgia, ordered White removed from the United States to Jamaica on April 12, 2023.
The New Haven Police Department arrested White on December 26, 2023, for threatening first-degree with hazard to terrorize, and ICE lodged an immigration detainer against White on December 27, 2023, with the New Haven Correctional Center.
The State of Connecticut Superior Court in New Haven convicted White on April 17, 2024, of threatening first-degree with hazard to terrorize, a class-D felony offence, and sentenced him to five years’ incarceration – suspended after one year and three years’ probation.
The State of Connecticut Department of Corrections honoured the ICE detainer on December 26, 2024. Officers from ICE arrested White in a custodial setting at Hartford Correctional Center upon completion of his state sentence.
