A violent Tren de Aragua gang member who’s suspected of homicide has been launched from jail in Chicago regardless of a 2022 deportation order.
Pedro Colmenares, 33, of Venezuela, entered the US in 2022 and was ordered to be deported by an immigration choose only a few months later.
In 2024, two years after he was ordered to be deported, Colmenares was again within the arms of regulation enforcement on a weapons cost.
“DHS issued an ICE detainer on Colmenares, however due to its sanctuary coverage, Prepare dinner County refused to adjust to the detainer, and Colmenares was let out,” Fox Information reports.
This week, Colmenares was apprehended once more over suspected involvement within the homicide of a 25-year-old man in September. The Chicago Police Division held him for 3 days earlier than he was launched.
Fox Information studies:
Chicago police mentioned possible trigger existed to put the unlawful migrant into custody for homicide earlier this week, however in the end the Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer’s workplace declined to press murder prices, explaining they “fastidiously reviewed” the case and located inadequate proof and “uncooperative witnesses.”
Colmenares is dealing with prices in a stunning kidnapping and sexual assault of his former girlfriend final October in Chicago. He’s charged with home battery with bodily hurt for allegedly pulling up in a automotive to the 27-year-old Hispanic girl and telling her to get in “or I’ll shoot you.”
Police say he then drove the lady in opposition to her will to a separate location on Chicago’s west aspect, the place he allegedly “battered and sexually assaulted the sufferer” over a number of days.
Colmenares was ordered to look earlier than a choose in March however was not positioned beneath digital monitoring.