MASON CITY – A man authorities think might be an illegal alien is guilty of a domestic assault and has been carted away by federal authorities.
Mason City police were dispatched for a domestic incident after 3:00 AM on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Officers arrived at 16 14th Street SE and encountered 34-year-old Leonardo Elivar Trejo. An investigation into the incident led to his arrest on a charge of felony domestic abuse involving strangulation.
Once in the jail, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer was put on Trejo. AS NIT has reported previously, the law states that law enforcement agencies ‘shall maintain custody of the alien,’ once an ICE detainer order on a prisoner is issued. ICE detainers are used to make sure that aliens that commit serious crimes are not released back in the public when they should be lawfully deported back to their native countries.
Trejo later pled guilty to a lesser charge of second-offense domestic abuse assault and was given a jail sentence. After his time was served on his domestic charge, he was released to ICE (federal authorities) on November 9, 2017.
