Said Jama Ahmed is being held in North Dakota on illegal entry charges after agents apprehended him near the U.S.-Canada border earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Officials said his fingerprints match records collected during a 2012 U.S. Navy operation involving suspected Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, according to an announcement Friday from the Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS).<\/p>\n “Weak\u00a0Biden administration border policies allowed this illegal alien to\u00a0enter and remain\u00a0in the country despite\u00a0his\u00a0multiple\u00a0law enforcement encounters,” DHS acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n TOM HOMAN: \u2018NOT SURPRISED\u2019 BY \u2018POTENTIAL TERRORIST\u2019 APPREHENDED AT US-MEXICO BORDER<\/a><\/p>\n Said Jama Ahmed is being held in North Dakota on illegal entry charges after agents apprehended him near the U.S.-Canada border earlier this month. (Department of Homeland Security and Mert Alper Dervis\/Anadolu Agency)<\/p>\n According to DHS, Ahmed was first spotted April 14 by an off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer<\/a> walking southbound with a backpack a few miles north of the border.<\/p>\n About two hours later, a U.S. Border Patrol agent located Ahmed and took him into custody.<\/p>\n A fingerprint match tied Ahmed to a 2012 incident in which the USS Halsey, a Navy guided-missile destroyer, responded to a distress call from an Indian-flagged vessel hijacked by pirates, according to DHS.<\/p>\n CALIFORNIA ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH 49 PRIOR ARRESTS TOPS ICE\u2019S LATEST \u2018WORST-OF-THE-WORST\u2019 LIST<\/a><\/p>\n DHS says Ahmed was first spotted April 14 by an off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. (Andrew Harrer\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/p>\n A Navy boarding team<\/a> encountered Ahmed and nine others who were allegedly armed and holding the ship hostage.<\/p>\n “A Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) team conducted boarding operations and encountered Ahmed and nine other armed pirates who had taken the Indian ship hostage by force, where the Navy then logged Ahmed\u2019s fingerprint,” DHS said.<\/p>\n Authorities say Ahmed entered the U.S.<\/a> in September 2022 near San Luis, Arizona, and has had multiple prior encounters with law enforcement.<\/p>\n![\"ILLEGAL-SOMALI-PIRATE-US-CANADA-BORDER\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ILLEGAL-SOMALI-PIRATE-US-CANADA-BORDER.jpeg\")
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