An illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was ordered deported and in trouble with the law has been charged with killing a 2-year-old Maryland boy who got into a gunfight with his teenage mother in a park.
Nilson Granados-Trejo, 25, was charged Monday with first-degree murder and second-degree murder, and is the fifth suspect in the killing of toddler Jeremy Pou-Caceres and his 17-year-old mother. arrested in connection with a Feb. 8 shooting incident that injured a man. the policeman said.
According to the complaint, the toddler was caught in a gunfight between two groups involved in a territorial dispute over drug trafficking in Langley Park. Obtained by Washington Post
Granados-Trejo had previously been arrested twice on theft charges and ordered deported from the United States by an immigration judge in New Jersey, but was repeatedly released despite three immigration detentions. . FOX5 revealed.
Still, his public defender argued that the suspect should be granted pretrial release because he was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” as a passenger in the gunman’s car, Washington said.・The Post reported.
But Assistant State Attorney Giovanna Miller said Granados-Trejo was a “co-conspirator or accomplice” in the murder and had failed to appear in court at least three times, using multiple pseudonyms.
Judge Donnaca Varner Lewis agreed he was a flight risk and ordered him held without bail.
Four other suspects were arrested in the case: Israel Fuentes, 33, Johnny Alejandro Turciosa, 28, and two teenage boys, ages 15 and 16. , both are being charged as adults.
Fuentes and Turcios were said to be in one of the groups involved in the shooting, while the two teens were in another group.
Granados-Trejo told police he was in a stolen Ford Explorer with Fuentes and Turcios at the time of the shooting, and that Fuentes “fired a gun during the incident,” according to documents cited by the newspaper. He admitted that he witnessed him doing it.
James Covington, head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s removal operations in Baltimore, confirmed this. told FOX5 Granados-Trejo is in the United States illegally.
A Justice Department immigration judge in Newark, New Jersey, ordered him to be deported on November 7, 2022, the paper said.
However, on March 21, 2023, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office arrested Granados-Trejo and charged him with theft, according to ICE records cited by FOX 5.
The department filed a complaint with the Montgomery County Detention Center for immigration custody of the suspect, which was denied, and the suspect was released on March 27, 2023, the newspaper reported.
Montgomery County police reportedly rearrested Granados-Trejo on Sept. 26 on charges of theft and obstruction/attempted obstruction.
ICE again filed the immigration detainer with MCDC on September 27, but he was released from custody on October 12, FOX 5 reported.
A third immigration detainer was filed against Granados Trejo at the Prince George’s County Detention Center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, the day after his latest arrest was announced, the outlet said.
