One in every of two males who escaped from a Colorado immigration detention middle was once arrested Friday after being discovered via a sheriff’s deputy about 12 miles away.
An Adam’s County Sheriff’s Workplace deputy approached Joel Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 32, round 4:30 a.m. as a result of he gave the impression suspicious, sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt. Adam Sherman mentioned. When it was once decided he was once probably the most two males who escaped Tuesday night time from the detention middle in Aurora, Colorado, he was once taken into brief custody till U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived, Sherman mentioned.
The opposite one who escaped on Tuesday night time remained at massive. They each it appears walked outdoor that opened all over an influence outage on the detention middle within the Denver suburb, which is operated via The GEO Workforce below a freelance with ICE.
ICE officers mentioned they in an instant requested native government for lend a hand discovering the boys. However Aurora police leader Todd Chamberlain mentioned that they weren’t notified till over 4 hours after the boys had been long past. Via that point, Chamberlain mentioned it was once too overdue for police to lend a hand.
Gonzalez-Gonzalez, who’s from Mexico, were held within the prison in Adams County from Feb. 9 thru Feb. 12 in reference to native prison fees, together with second-degree motor car robbery, Sherman mentioned. Courtroom paperwork within the prison case weren’t in an instant to be had. He’s being represented if so via a attorney from the general public defender’s place of job, which doesn’t touch upon its circumstances to the media.
ICE mentioned it arrested Gonzalez-Gonzalez on Feb. 12, and he was once taken to its detention middle pending immigration complaints. Gonzalez-Gonzalez has been in the US since 2013 and violated the stipulations of his admission, it mentioned.
It isn’t identified whether or not Gonzalez-Gonzalez can have a attorney representing him in his immigration case.
