Migrant gang member suspected of homicide, sexually assaulting girlfriend is arrested

A Venezuelan unlawful migrant and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member was arrested in Chicago for a fourth time Tuesday after first being ordered deported beneath the Biden administration in 2022. 

Pedro Colmenares, 33, was arrested Tuesday morning on the sanctuary metropolis’s west aspect in a multi-agency bust with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Chicago police and U.S. Marshalls concerned, a DHS official informed Fox Information.

Colmenares had a warrant for his arrest for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in September, whom police stated he threatened to shoot. 

Pedro Colmenares, a Venezuelan unlawful migrant and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member, was arrested in Chicago for a fourth time Tuesday after first being ordered deported beneath the Biden administration in 2022.  (Chicago Police Division, left, and David Dee Delgado/Getty Photographs, proper)

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Previous to Tuesday’s arrest, Colmenares was taken into custody by Chicago police final month for questioning in relation to a homicide, however he was not charged. As an alternative, he was launched on separate misdemeanor home battery costs in relation to the sexual assault, Fox Information first reported. 

Since Fox Information’ report about Colmenares being let out final month, a brand new warrant was issued for the kidnapping and sexual assault costs that led to the migrant’s arrest yesterday.

Colmenares was arrested on Feb. 17 and questioned for 3 days about his suspected involvement within the taking pictures dying of a 25-year-old Hispanic man final September.

Chicago police stated possible trigger existed to put the unlawful migrant into custody for homicide, however the Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer’s workplace declined to press murder costs, telling Fox Information it “rigorously reviewed” the case and located inadequate proof and “uncooperative witnesses.”

Pedro Colmenares was ordered deported in 2022, however native officers refused to adjust to an ICE detainer. (Chicago Police Division, left, and David Dee Delgado/Getty Photographs, proper.)

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On the identical time, Chicago police wished to press felony costs on Colmenares for the kidnapping and sexual assault of his former girlfriend final 12 months in Chicago. He allegedly pulled up in a automotive to the 27-year-old Hispanic girl, telling her to get in “or I’ll shoot you.”  

Police say he then drove the lady towards her will to a separate location on Chicago’s west aspect, the place he allegedly “battered and sexually assaulted the sufferer” over a number of days.

Prosecutors rejected felony costs within the sexual assault case, additionally citing inadequate proof, CWB reported. Colmenares was hit with misdemeanor home battery costs and let out on probation. The misdemeanor costs in the end had been dropped however the Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer’s workplace introduced it discovered new proof and a contemporary warrant was authorized.

Colmenares had a warrant for his arrest in Chicago for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in September, whom police stated he threatened to shoot.  (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photographs)

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Colmenares entered the U.S. in September 2022 and was ordered deported by an immigration choose in November of that 12 months, in response to DHS. Whereas interesting the deportation ruling, he ended up in Chicago.

Two years after the deportation ruling, Colmenares was again on DHS’ radar after a weapons cost within the Chicago space final 12 months. DHS issued an ICE detainer on Colmenares, however due to its sanctuary coverage, Prepare dinner County refused to adjust to the detainer, and Colmenares was let out.

Police information point out Colmenares was first arrested in Chicago in February 2024 for a damaged taillight, revealing he was driving with no license in an uninsured and unregistered automotive.