Marlo Danilo Rivas Mendez, an El Salvadorian citizen, was taken back into custody by ICE just a few hours after he escaped on Monday. (Photo: ICE)

The ICE detainee who escaped from custody near the Dulles Toll Road in Sterling, Virginia this past Monday had already been deported from the United States five times, according to court documents.

Marlo Danilo Rivas Mendez, an El Salvadorian citizen, was taken back into custody by ICE just a few hours after he escaped on Monday. Rivas Mendez had been referred to as Carlos Rivas-Mendez in initial press releases.

According to the criminal complaint, Rivas Mendez was arrested for being drunk in public in Loudoun County Monday when ICE was called to pick him up.

Officers picked Rivas Mendez up at the detention center and started driving him back to an ICE office in Fairfax when the man "complained to the transporting officers that the handcuffs were too tight", according to the complaint. The officers say they pulled over on Dulles Greenway between exit 6 and exit 8 to accommodate the request, and when one of them loosened one of Rivas-Mendez's handcuffs, he hit one of the officers and ran away.

SkyTrak7 flew over the area Monday as the search began for Rivas Mendez:

Rivas Mendez had been deported from the United States in December 2007, November 2011, May 2012, June 2014 and January 2016, according to ICE's records, which were published in the complaint.

