| By Big Radio News Staff |
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement places a 48-hour detainer on a Rock County Jail inmate who was serving 20 days in the diversion program for second-offense operating while intoxicated.
According to a report from the Rock County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched just before 11 p.m. Tuesday to a home on Keeler Avenue in Beloit where Lorenzo Barrios, 33, lived.
Barrios was scheduled to be released from custody after serving his time on the local charges, but the sheriff’s office took him to the jail at ICE’s request. The sheriff’s office says Barrios was taken into custody “without issue.”
According to ICE’s website, the agency issues detainers after officers or agents establish probable cause to believe a person is removable and typically when that person poses a public safety or national security threat.
The website lists convictions for burglaries, robberies, kidnapping, homicide, sexual assault, weapons offenses, drug trafficking and human trafficking as examples for when ICE might issue a detainer, all of which are felony convictions in Wisconsin. The OWI offense Barrios was convicted of is a misdemeanor.
Big Radio has reached out to Sheriff Curtis Fell for comment.
