U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced recently that it has completed the deportation of accused cop killer Reinaldo Gustavo Zamora-Sandoya, one of Ecuador’s most wanted fugitives.  Zamora-Sandoya, a citizen of Ecuador, was convicted of crimes in the United States under the assumed name “Edwin Andrades-Rojas” and believed federal officials did not know his real identity.

Zamora-Sandoya is accused of killing two police officers while robbing a bank and then throwing money into the street in order to attract a crowd and facilitate his escape.  While imprisoned in the United States, Zamora-Sandoya openly boasted that he was never arrested or convicted for murdering the police officers.  Wanted by police in Ecuador, he illegally entered the Untied States sometime during 1993.

Zamora-Sandoya was arrested in New York City March 2, 1995, for Grand Larceny, Criminal Possession of Stolen Property, Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle, Resisting Arrest and Reckless Endangerment.  He was convicted and sentenced to nine months in prison.

On December 9, 1998, he was again arrested in New York and was convicted for Conspiracy to Obstruct Via Robbery (using a gun).  For this crime, a judge sentenced Zamora-Sandoya to 95 months incarceration and ordered him to pay $1.35 million in restitution under a payment schedule of $50 per month.

Zamora-Sandoya completed his sentence September 7 at the Federal Correctional Institution at Ray Brook, New York.  He was immediately taken into custody by ICE’s detention and removal officers and placed in the Batavia, New York detention facility.  ICE deportation officers and Ecuadorian police escorted him from the United States.