Illegal aliens arrested for armed home invasion, kidnapping in Wake County
Incident happened same day House Democrats voted against bill on law enforcement cooperation with ICE
Brother and sister illegal aliens Paola Duran Duran (25) and Miguel Angel Duran Duran (23) were captured by police after a home invasion turned kidnapping of a woman and her infant child and demanding a ransom earlier this week.
The brother and sister are charged with first and second degree kidnapping. Both have Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer holds and are being held at the Wake County Detention Center.
Paola Duran has a pending court case in Johnston County related to a rear seatbelt violation and was previously in court in that county for driving without a license, which the district attorney voluntarily dismissed for some reason.
Miguel Duran also has disposed cases in eCourt spanning Alamance, Brunswick, New Hanover and Mecklenburg Counties. Two are for fishing without a license, one is for driving without a license and the other is a seatbelt violation.
The victims told the Garner Police Department that two men and a woman who were all wearing masks and had guns broke into their home and demanded $1 million.
The husband refused the demand and the suspects tied him up with duct tape before abducting his 11-month-old daughter and wife and escaping in a black Nissan Altima. He managed to free himself and called the police.
There has been no indication so far why the trio invaded that specific home and demanded that specific amount of money.
Garner police officers contacted the FBI and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) and a search for the victims began, including the issuing of an Amber Alert.
The mother and baby were found safe later the same day after a resident of Wake Forest reported to authorities that a woman with a baby came to her home seeking help.
A third suspect identified by the FBI is Eleodoro “Leo” Estrada-Hernandez, age 37.
Estrada-Hernandez is charged with two counts of first-degree kidnapping, one count of second-degree kidnapping, as well as one count of possession of a firearm by a felon, and two counts of assault by pointing a firearm.
The FBI, NCSBI and Garner Police are still searching for Hernandez. He is on the FBI's most wanted list and the FBI's offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Estrada-Hernandez.
UPDATE: Estrada-Hernandez was captured on May 2.
The home invasion and kidnapping happened the same day Democrats in the NC General Assembly voted against a bill further clarifying law enforcement cooperation with ICE.
All but one House Democrat, Mecklenburg County's Rep. Carla Cunningham, voted against the The Criminal Illegal Alien Enforcement Act (House Bill 318).
Read more about this bill and the vote in my report at North State Journal.
One of the main reasons for House Bill 318 is the lack of cooperation with ICE from Mecklenburg Sheriff Garry McFadden. He has claimed the previous law, House Bill 10 which House Bill 318 seeks to shore up, doesn’t require him to call ICE nor does it require him to honor detainers.
McFadden claims detainers are not legal transfer documents like “criminal warrants” or "judicial writs” are and he doubled down in a statement following House Bill 318’s passage by the NC House:
The Democratic Party's House Caucus took to X defending their votes and claiming the bill is about scoring "political points" instead of making sure ICE is engaged by law enforcement when illegal aliens are caught committing serious crimes.
The Democratic Party House Caucus' post is a continuation of a national theme for Democrats, as was most visible with Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen running to the aid of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Garcia who was deported to El Salvador.
This past week, bodycam footage emerged of a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee showing Garcia being pulled over by a trooper, who in the video can be heard raising a suspicion of human trafficking based on what he saw going on in the car.
There were 8 people in the car with Garcia, who was driving with a suspended license from Texas to Maryland "for his boss." Also, there was no luggage in the car, a tell-tale sign of human trafficking.
Read the related story about this footage at the NY Post.
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The Garner area home invasion was preceded by the arrest of another illegal alien in Lincoln, North Carolina on April 29.
Yonathan Misael Paz Molina, age 22, was arrested for seven counts of statutory rape of child age 15 or under. He is a Honduran national, has an ICE detainer hold and was also given a $750,000 bond.
Per the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, detectives with the Criminal Investigations Division say the man "had sexual intercourse on multiple occasions with a juvenile female who is 15 years of age."
"The juvenile was living with the man at the time of the investigation and was placed in Lincoln County DSS custody pending placement," the press release states. "Detectives say the man is not related to her and the juvenile is not originally from North Carolina. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was notified and placed an immigration detainer on the suspect, according to detectives."
Both cases in North Carolina happened the day after President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to publish a list of sanctuary jurisdictions within 30 days and update that list as necessary.
Trump’s order also directs those officials to issue notification to those jurisdictions they are in violation of the law, penalties that may be imposed such as federal funding loss, and ordering both agencies to pursue legal action.
Referring to the executive order, North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis released a map on Facebook of nine sanctuary counties in North Carolina.
The map lists Buncombe, Chatham, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Orange, Wake and Watauga Counties.
More To The Story reported in 2024 on the sanctuary cities cited by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) which includes the same nine listed by Tillis. These counties were identified by CIS for having policies, laws or ordinances that would obstruct ICE. Based on CIS’ criteria, there are additional sanctuary jurisdictions in North Carolina beyond those nine, however.
Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough and Watauga County Sheriff Len Hagaman pushed back on Tillis’ claim as untrue.
Hagaman said Watauga complies with the law and that he can “count maybe on one hand” over 20 years that his office has had detainers on prisoners, per WFDD.
Kimbrough offered evidence, stating his office currently has 22 people detained on behalf of ICE.
In a post on X, Tillis acknowledged Kimbrough’s claim, writing in part, “Kimbrough has been honoring the vast majority of ICE detainer requests, including 22 since President Trump's inauguration for illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes.”
Despite his admission of honoring detainers, Kimbrough has a real illegal alien crime problem on his hands.
Per the X account “Immigrant Crimes,” which More To The Story has been following for the past year, at least four illegal aliens with ICE holds were arrested in Forsyth County in April alone.
Illegal aliens arrested in Forsyth County have had charges including breaking and entering, drug sales/possession, trafficking, burglary, robbery, car theft, assault, statutory rape, indecent liberties, and rape.
In March, one an arrest in that county included an MS-13 gang member who was also wanted in New York State.
Additionally, at least three separate individuals have been charged with murder and one was charged with the arson of a church.