Pablo Serrano-Vitorino: suspected killer and illegal immigrant’s past law run-ins

Pablo Serrano-Vitorino, the illegal immigrant accused of killing five people and leading law enforcement on a nearly 24-hour manhunt, has had his share of run-ins with the law.

Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, filed a detainer against Serrano-Vitorino, which means he will be deported. This will happen whether he is acquitted of the murder charges he now faces or if he’s convicted and completes his sentence.

According to ICE, this isn’t Serrano-Vitorino’s first time being deported.

An ICE official reveals Serrano-Vitorino was sentenced to two years in prison in 2003 for making a terroristic threat in Los Angeles. ICE served him a detainer and deported him to Mexico in April 2004.

It’s unclear when he illegally re-entered the country, but 10 years later, Serrano-Vitorino had another run-in with the law in the United States when he was arrested in 2014 for a DUI in Coffee County, Kansas.

AN ICE official says the agency was never notified that Serrano-Vitorino was fingerprinted, but is still reviewing its records.

Less than a year later, Kansas City police arrested him for domestic assault. ICE says he was released and never placed into custody.

A few months later, in September 2015, ICE was notified that Serrano-Vitorino was fingerprinted in Overland Park, Kansas for driving without a license.

ICE erroneously issued a detainer to have Serrano-Vitorino deported to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department, rather than the municipal court.

An ICE official says because he wasn’t in custody with the Sheriff’s Office, neither agency could take action on that detainer.

Pablo Serrano-Vitorino was arraigned in Montgomery County Wednesday. A hearing is set for April.