An allegedly illegal immigrants in Venezuela and members of the Tren de Aragua gang were arrested in Chicago on Tuesday after being first deported under the Biden administration in 2022.
Pedro Cormenales, 33, was arrested on multiple busts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Chicago Police Department and US Marshall on the west side of the sanctuary city on Tuesday morning, a DHS official told FOX News.
Cormenales had a warrant for his arrest that allegedly invited his ex-girlfriend in September and sexually assaulted him, but police said he threatened to shoot him.
Pedro Cormenares, an illegal immigrant in Venezuela and a member of the Tren de Aragua gang, was arrested for the fourth time in Chicago on Tuesday after being first deported under the Biden administration in 2022. (Chicago Police Station, left, David Deedelgado/Getty Images, correct)
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Prior to Tuesday's arrest, Cormenares was taken into custody by Chicago police last month to question the murders, but he was not charged. Instead, he was released on separate misdemeanor household battery charges in connection with sexual assault, Fox News first reported.
Last month, a Fox News report on Cormenares being released saw a new warrant issued for charges of inducing and sexual assault that led to the arrest of immigrants yesterday.
Cormenales was arrested on February 17th and was questioned for three days last September about alleged involvement in the shooting death of a 25-year-old Hispanic man.
Chicago police said there could be a possible cause for illegal immigrants to be detained for murder, but the Cook County State Lawyer's office refused to report on the murder charges, and told Fox News it had “cautiously reviewed” and found inadequate evidence and “uncooperative witnesses.”
Pedro Cormenares was deported in 2022, but local officials refused to comply with ice detainees. (Chicago Police Station, left, David Deedelgado/Getty Images, yes.)
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At the same time, Chicago police wanted to urge a felony charge against Cormenales for the invitation and sexual assault of his ex-girlfriend in Chicago last year. He pulls up the car to a 27-year-old Hispanic woman and tells her, “Or I'll shoot you.”
Police say he drove her to another location on the west side of Chicago against her will.
The prosecutor refused to file a felony charge in a sexual assault case, citing inadequate evidence, CWB It has been reported. Colmenares collided with a misdemeanor domestic battery charge and released probation. The misdemeanor charge was ultimately dropped, but the Cook County State Lawyer's office has found new evidence and announced that a new warrant has been approved.
Cormenales had a warrant for an arrest in Chicago that he allegedly invited his ex-girlfriend and sexually assaulted him, but police said he threatened the shooting. (Beata Zawrzel/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
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According to DHS, Cormenales entered the United States in September 2022 and was deported by an immigrant judge in November of that year. He ended up in Chicago, pleading for a deportation ruling.
Two years after the deportation ruling, Cormenales has returned to the DHS radar after arms charges in the Chicago area last year. DHS issued an ICE Details in Colmenares, but because of its sanctuary policy, Cook County refused to comply with the Details and Colmenares was released.
Police records show that Cormenales was first arrested in Chicago for a broken taillight in February 2024, revealing that he was driving without a license in an uninsured, unregistered vehicle.
