Fortunes Turn Sour for 2 Ecuadorian High Net Worth Fugitives: ICE Detains Them and Florida Appellate Court Rules Against Them in Asset Recovery Case

On February 13, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested two high-net-worth fugitives from Ecuador who have battled for at least a decade to avoid returning to Ecuador where an Ecuadorian court convicted and sentenced them in 2012 in absentia. ICE detained Roberto and William Isaías, 74 and 25, and brought them to a detention facility for undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation. ICE only said the detainees were “unlawfully present” in the United States.