Boston-based ICE officers arrested a Honduran career violent criminal who reentered the United States illegally for at least the seventh time.

Officers of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston field office sent Julio Cesar Hernandez Funez, 41, back to Honduras on Nov. 18. The office said the man who also goes by the names “Roadas” and “Flores Najera” has been removed from the country at least seven times: in 2006, 2013, 2014, twice in 2015, once in 2016, and once this year.

“Hernandez is a repeat offender who’s unlawfully entered the United States at least seven times, and he’s committed crimes against innocent people nearly every time,” said Patricia Hyde, ERO Boston’s acting field office director.

Hyde said in a statement that Hernandez Funez has been arrested in multiple states, including in Texas in 2001 where Border Patrol agents “found him hiding in the trunk of a car at a checkpoint.” He reentered the country through the Canadian border where U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested him in Derby Line, Vermont.

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The ERO field office provided a survey of Hernandez’s legal convictions in the U.S., which include disorderly conduct in 2004, assault and battery and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in 2005, entry without inspection in 2012, and driving while intoxicated in 2014.

In his home country, he was convicted of an unspecified crime in 2022 for which he was sentenced four years and six months in prison, but the ERO office said he fled Honduras before serving his sentence and attempted to enter the U.S. through Vermont.