LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA (NBC News 4) – The man who escaped from immigration officials in Virginia this week and hid in the woods for hours has been deported from the United States five times.
Federal court documents show Marlo Danilo Rivas Mendez, 27, has been deported five times in the past decade: in December 2007, November 2011, May 2012, June 2014 and January 2016.
He appeared in federal court Wednesday afternoon and requested, through an interpreter, a lawyer. He wore the same tattered T-shirt and camouflage pants he was wearing when we was arrested Monday, and was expressionless.
The El Salvador native was arrested in Loudoun County, Virginia, on Monday because he allegedly was drunk in public, the documents say. An immigration detainer on him was filed the same day.
Rivas Mendez was being transported from Loudoun County to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Fairfax County when he made his escape.
Two transportation officers with the private detention company Immigration Center of America were moving Rivas Mendez between the facilities.
During the drive, Rivas Mendez complained to the officers that the handcuffs on him were too tight, the court documents say.
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