‘Wife-beat’ bust for pizza migrant
Deport-stay worker on ‘ICE’
The illegal-immigrant pizza deliveryman who was nearly deported following his arrest by ICE at a Brooklyn Army base was busted again over an alleged domestic-violence incident.
Pablo Villavicencio got into a fight with his wife at their Hempstead, LI, home Thursday, pushing her against a wall, slapping her body and then taking her phone away so she couldn’t call the cops, according to a criminal complaint.
Police found the phone in the pocket of Villavicencio’s shorts, an officer noted in the complaint.
He was arraigned Saturday for criminal mischief in the fourth degree — for withholding the phone — and ordered held in lieu of $500 bail.
Villavicencio, 35, was still being held at a Nassau County detention center Monday and is due back in court Tuesday.
The Ecuadorian delivery worker, whose wife, Sandra, and two daughters are US citizens, became a cause célèbre when he was nabbed by immigration agents in June, then tossed in detention due to a 2010 order of deportation.
A judge freed Villavicencio almost two months later and halted his deportation so he could fight the order of removal and pursue legal residency — saying he was a “model citizen.”
Villavicencio’s tearful reunion with Sandra made headlines across the country.