A violent Tren de Aragua gang member who is suspected of murder has been released from prison in Chicago despite a 2022 deportation order.
Pedro Colmenares, 33, of Venezuela, entered the United States in 2022 and was ordered to be deported by an immigration judge just a few months later.
In 2024, two years after he was ordered to be deported, Colmenares was back in the hands of law enforcement on a weapons charge.
“DHS issued an ICE detainer on Colmenares, but because of its sanctuary policy, Cook County refused to comply with the detainer, and Colmenares was set free,” Fox News reports.
This week, Colmenares was apprehended again over suspected involvement in the murder of a 25-year-old man in September. The Chicago Police Department held him for three days before he was released.
Fox News reports:
Chicago police said probable cause existed to place the illegal migrant into custody for murder earlier this week, but ultimately the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office declined to press homicide charges, explaining they “carefully reviewed” the case and found insufficient evidence and “uncooperative witnesses.”
Colmenares is facing charges in a shocking kidnapping and sexual assault of his former girlfriend last October in Chicago. He is charged with domestic battery with bodily harm for allegedly pulling up in a car to the 27-year-old Hispanic woman and telling her to get in “or I’ll shoot you.”
Police say he then drove the woman against her will to a separate location on Chicago’s west side, where he allegedly “battered and sexually assaulted the victim” over several days.
Colmenares was ordered to appear before a judge in March but was not placed under electronic monitoring.
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