This convicted drug trafficker has criminal histories in three other states

WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer asking officials in Miami-Dade County to commit to not releasing a criminal illegal alien charged with murder.

According to local reporting, the incident took place in northwest Miami-Dade on August 17. The suspect, William Serrano Domenech, a criminal illegal alien from Cuba, approached a witness and began socializing with them before the victim, 42-year-old Raul Aballe, approached them. An argument ensued which then escalated to Serrano Domenech hitting Aballe repeatedly, before pulling out a gun and shooting Aballe in the stomach and fleeing the scene. Aballe died of his injuries at a local hospital.

Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrested Serrano Domenech the next day, August 18. They reported that he admitted to shooting Aballe, and that he did so out of jealousy of Aballe’s relationship with the witness.

William Serrano Domenech

Serrano Domenech now faces charges of second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. ICE lodged a detainer with the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center the day after he was arrested.

Serrano Domenech’s criminal history includes a conviction for weapon offense and arrests for vehicle theft, burglary, driving without a license, and driving with a suspended license in Florida, as well as prior arrests for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment, and bribery of a witness in New Mexico, arrests for unlawful possession of a weapon, resisting arrest, and theft in Tennessee, and convictions for possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of cocaine, possession with intent to distribute an unknown quality of marijuana, possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, and felon in possession of a firearm in Michigan. 

“This criminal illegal alien is charged with second-degree murder after the fatal shooting of Raul Aballe in Miami-Dade County,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “He has a rap sheet a mile long, with prior convictions in Florida and Michigan for drug trafficking and illegal possession of a firearm, as well as prior arrests in New Mexico and Tennessee for aggravated assault, theft, and resisting arrest. This dangerous criminal should have never been in our country, and had it not been for the Biden Administration releasing him from ICE custody in 2023, Raul Aballe would still be alive. ICE has lodged a detainer and will work with our partners in Florida to ensure that this killer is never again allowed back onto our streets.”

Serrano Domenech claims to have entered the United States through Florida in August 1995. A Department of Justice (DOJ) Immigration Judge issued Serrano Domenech a final order of removal on February 20, 2002. Although ICE took him into custody in December 2023, the Biden Administration RELEASED him back into the country.

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