ICE Deports Olney Man to Honduras
A Honduran man who had been living in Olney was taken into federal custody and deported last month after pleading guilty to multiple violent offenses in Young County, according to statements from the Young County District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Marcos Yankel Leon Sorto, 35, had been housed in the Young County Jail when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with ICE Dallas assumed custody of him. He was removed to Honduras on Dec. 17, 2025, according to a DHS spokesperson.
Mr. Leon Sorto pleaded guilty in November to aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and assault on a peace officer or judge, according to Young County District Attorney Dee Peavy. For each offense, he was sentenced to 10 years of community supervision. He was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and court costs in the aggravated assault case, Ms. Peavy said.
Federal officials said Mr. Leon Sorto was a repeat immigration violator who had previously been ordered removed from the United States. According to DHS, he was first apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol near Falfurrias, Texas, on July 9, 2003. An immigration judge in Dallas ordered him removed on April 28, 2004, and he was deported to Honduras on March 13, 2009.
Mr. Leon Sorto later re-entered the United States illegally — a felony offense — at an unknown date and location, claiming his most recent entry occurred in 2010, a DHS spokesperson said.
His criminal history also includes a 2009 conviction for theft of property in Irving, Texas, according to DHS.
“ICE Dallas removed criminal illegal alien Marcos Leon-Sorto on Dec. 17, 2025, to his home country of Honduras,” a DHS spokesperson said. “A repeat immigration violator, Leon Sorto was convicted of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and assault on a peace officer.”
The case comes amid heightened national attention on immigration enforcement following a series of large-scale ICE operations in Minneapolis that sparked protests and unrest in several cities. Civil rights groups and immigration advocates have criticized the scope and method of the roundups, while federal officials have defended them as necessary public safety measures focused on individuals with criminal convictions.
DHS officials said enforcement actions are targeting people with criminal records. “ICE law enforcement officers are sending criminal illegal aliens where they should have been all along — home,” the spokesperson told the Enterprise, adding that DHS arrested more than 675,000 undocumented immigrants nationwide in what it described as a record- breaking year, with approximately 70 percent of ICE arrests involving individuals charged with or convicted of crimes in the United States.
Mr. Leon Sorto’s removal followed his convictions in Olney and occurred while he was already in local custody, the district attorney’s office said. Local law enforcement officials said ICE has been active in Young County in recent weeks.