A convicted terrorist and boss of the Irish Republican Army in North America may finally be getting booted from the United States.
Gabriel Megahey, 82, lived in New York for decades but a June 20 letter from the US Department of Homeland Security warned his “parole” was being terminated, nearly 30 years after he and other IRA members were given dispensation to stay in the country.
“Do not attempt to unlawfully remain in the United States — the federal government will find you. Please depart the United States immediately,” reads the one-page letter, which Megahey shared with the Irish Echo.
The Belfast native was convicted in 1983 in Brooklyn Federal Court for conspiring to buy missiles to shoot down British helicopters amid the violent clashes in Northern Ireland known as “The Troubles.”
At the time, federal authorities considered Megahey “the officer commanding (OC) of America and Canada” for the IRA, he told PBS’s Frontline.
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