ICE arrested an illegal immigrant who faces multiple child sex crime charges in Massachusetts.

Sostenes Perez-Lopez, 59, a national of Guatemala in the United States illegally, is charged in Massachusetts with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.

Perez-Lopez was charged with the crimes in municipal court in Brighton in November.

“Sostenes Perez-Lopez stands accused of some horrific crimes against a child in Massachusetts,” said Patricia Hyde, the acting Boston office director of Enforcement and Removal Operations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“We will not tolerate the victimization of our residents at the hands of alien offenders,” Hyde added. “ICE Boston will continue to prioritize the safety of our public by arresting and removing illegally present lawbreakers.”

The Boston Municipal Court released Perez-Lopez with a GPS tracker and special conditions pending the outcome of his state case, but as of Feb. 18, Perez-Lopez is in ICE custody pending an appearance before a federal immigration judge.

The President Trump administration has made immigration arrests a priority.

Nationally, ICE housed almost 44,000 detainees as of Feb. 23, 2025, according to statistics maintained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. More than half of those detainees were arrested by ICE and the remaining 48% were arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

ICE databases that include arrests in the New England region went down and stayed down late Tuesday afternoon, and so local arrest statistics were unavailable for this story.

ERO, the enforcement branch of the agency, made 113,431 administrative arrests in fiscal year 2024, according to an agency factsheet.