José Antonio Ibarra, the Venezuelan accused of killing a female nursing student from Georgia, entered the United States illegally in 2022 and had previously been arrested in New York, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) on Sunday. ).
Ibarra, 26 years old, had been found on September 8, 2022 by ICE, after entering near El Paso. Later it was “placed on parole and released for further processing,” said ICE in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The agency also detailed that a Venezuelan citizen had been arrested by the New York Police Department on September 14, 2023, and “charged with acting in a manner likely to injure a child under 17 years of age and a motor vehicle license violation.”
According to the information, Ibarra had been released by the NYPD before ICE could issue a detainer warrant.
ICE said its Enforcement and Removal Operations office in Atlanta “found Ibarra following his arrest by the University of Georgia Police Department and He was accused of murder and other crimes. “ERO Atlanta filed an arrest warrant.”
About the murder
The man faces several charges, including malicious homicide, kidnapping, aggravated assault and concealing the death of another person following the death of 22-year-old Laken Hope Riley.
Riley was found dead in a wooded area on the University of Georgia campus.
The young woman had gone jogging on the school’s intramural fields on Thursday morning, but did not return home, according to University of Georgia Police Department Chief Jeffrey Clark. A friend of the victim reported her missing the next day.
His body was found with injuries behind a lake near the fields.
Ibarra appeared in court Saturday morning, when Clarke County Magistrate Judge Donarell Green He was denied bail “for today.”
The Justice Department reported Saturday that Ibarra’s brother, Diego Ibarra, was also arrested for presenting a false green card when approached by officers because of his resemblance to the suspect.
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2024-02-26 02:00:00
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