U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Victoria Police Department and the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office arrested a previously deported fugitive alien wanted in North Texas for vehicular homicide on March 10 in Victoria, Texas.
Joel Sac-Tambriz, a 24-year-old previously deported Guatemalan national, was taken into custody pursuant to an outstanding arrest warrant out of Tarrant County, Texas, for vehicular homicide for allegedly hitting a 30-year-old man with his vehicle and fleeing the scene on June 9, 2024.
Sac-Tambriz is also charged with assaulting an officer and evading arrest for allegedly resisting law enforcement during the encounter and attempting to flee.
Gustavo Francisco Sohom Sac, 19, and Pascual Alexander Guachiac Tzep, 18, both undocumented aliens from Guatemala, and Runfa Jiang, a 29-year-old undocumented alien from China, were also arrested during the encounter for allegedly evading arrest and assaulting an officer.
Jiang was additionally charged with hindering the apprehension of a known felon for allegedly assisting Sohom Sac in his attempt to evade authorities. All four aliens were taken into custody by the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office and were booked into the Victoria County Jail.
ICE lodged immigration detainers on all four aliens with the jail.
Sac-Tambriz illegally entered the U.S. on October 13, 2018, and was immediately apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol. He was transferred into ICE custody, processed as an expedited removal and removed to Guatemala on October 25, 2018.
He illegally re-entered the U.S. on an unknown date and at an unknown location and wasn’t encountered by U.S. immigration officials again until March 10.
