Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday confirmed that the Venezuelan nationwide charged in reference to the homicide of 22-year-old Georgia nursing pupil Laken Riley entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and had beforehand been arrested in New York Metropolis.
Fox Information had beforehand reported that 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, charged with the homicide of Riley on the College of Georgia campus, had crossed into the U.S. illegally close to El Paso in September 2022 and was paroled into the U.S.
In a press release to Fox Information Digital, ICE confirmed he had been encountered by Customs and Border Safety (CBP) on Sept. 8, 2022 after getting into close to El Paso and was “paroled and released for further processing.”
ICE additionally confirmed that Ibarra had been arrested by the New York Police Department a 12 months later, on Sept. 14, 2023, and “charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation.”
GEORGIA STUDENT MURDER SUSPECT CONFIRMED TO BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
Jose Ibarra, who was initially taken into custody on Friday by the UGA Police Division in reference to Laken Riley’s dying, is not believed to have had a connection to the sufferer. (Clarke County Sheriffs Workplace)
When ICE learns that what it believes to be a detachable unlawful immigrant has been arrested on prison costs, the company will usually lodge a detainer – a request asking native legislation enforcement to maintain the suspect in custody till they are often transferred to ICE and put into deportation proceedings.
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Laken Riley poses for a photograph posted to Fb. Riley, a nursing pupil on the College of Georgia, was discovered useless close to a lake on campus on Thursday, February 22, 2024. (Allyson Phillips/Fb)
On this case, nevertheless, ICE’s assertion says Ibarra was launched earlier than a detainer could possibly be issued. NYC can be a “sanctuary city” which usually restricts legislation enforcement from complying with ICE detainers.
In its assertion, ICE mentioned that its Enforcement and Removing Operations workplace in Atlanta “encountered Ibarra pursuant to his arrest by the University of Georgia Police Department and being charged with murder and other crimes. ERO Atlanta lodged a detainer.”
Riley, an Augusta College nursing pupil, was discovered useless Thursday after beforehand attending UGA earlier than getting into a nursing program at Augusta’s Athens campus, the place she made the Dean’s Listing.
Police have charged Ibarra with malice homicide, felony homicide, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 name and concealing the dying of one other, authorities said on Friday.
Ibarra appeared in court docket on Saturday morning, the place Clarke County Justice of the Peace Decide Donarell Inexperienced denied his bond “for today.” Two translators had been current. Ibarra nodded when spoken to.
Ibarra’s brother, Diego, was charged Friday with possessing a fraudulent inexperienced card and is being held in state custody. The federal arrest affidavit for Diego Ibarra says that in September 2023, Athens-Clarke County Police charged him with drunken driving and driving with no license. He was later arrested for shoplifting and later skipped court docket.
Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz, Invoice Melugin and Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
