Jhonatan Alexis Hernandez, who is being held in the Brown County Jail with an ICE detainer, is accused of dealing fentanyl near a school and also arranged fentanyl and marijuana buys at a Boys and Girls Club and Festival Foods in the City of Green Bay, and he is accused of maintaining a drug house that two children were living in, the complaint says. The fentanyl was camouflaged inside fake Percocet pills. He had previous drug convictions in Wisconsin.
We would note that the State of Wisconsin put out a public health advisory about fentanyl, saying, “Due to an increase in fentanyl overdose deaths, the Department of Health Services (DHS) asks Wisconsinites to take action to prevent overdose deaths. Over the last year, synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, were identified in 91 percent of opioid overdose deaths and 73 percent of all drug overdose deaths.”
Each day, from Sept. 25 through the presidential election, we tell you about a non-citizen currently in a Wisconsin jail who is accused of committing a horrific crime. ICE placed immigration detainers on each of them. We are highlighting a range of serious crimes. .
Right now, the case of a non-citizen Venezuelan gang member accused of sexually assaulting a teen and woman in Prairie Du Chien has grabbed the public’s attention. It’s not an outlier. Real victims, communities, and taxpayers are paying the price of weak Biden/Harris border policies, which are abetted by politicians like U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Every state is a border state. Do all illegal immigrants commit crimes once they get to Wisconsin? Of course not. However, this is the side of the immigration equation the media don’t often rush to tell. And it’s a very consequential one.
FILE #7
The Accused: Jhonatan Alexis Hernandez
The Jail: He’s in the Brown County Jail.
The Charges:
DELIVER FENTANYL (<=10 G), ON OR NEAR A SCHOOL
The complaint says the above offense occurred within 1000 feet of a private or public school, St Thomas More School.
MANUFACTURE/DELIVER THC (TETRAHYDROCANNABINOLS)
Count 4: POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DELIVER THC (TETRAHYDROCANNABINOLS)
(<=200G) – PTAC, AS A PARTY TO A CRIME, ON OR NEAR A SCHOOL (also St. Thomas More)
MANUFACTURE/DELIVER THC (TETRAHYDROCANNABINOLS) ON OR NEAR A SCHOOL (also St. Thomas More)
Count 5: MAINTAINING A DRUG TRAFFICKING PLACE – PTAC, AS A PARTY TO A CRIME – in the City of Green Bay
ICE Hold issued: 3/1/23
Hernandez’s Facebook page, which the criminal complaint says he used to arrange drug deals, says he is from Villa Hidalgo, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Date of Offense: Dec. 14, 2022
The case was filed in 2023 but languished in court while the Public defender’s officer tried to find Hernandez a state-funded lawyer. There is now a plea and sentencing hearing scheduled for this week.
Past Charges in Wisconsin:
He was previously convicted of misdemeanor drug charges that were reduced from felonies in Wisconsin and released on bail and given jail time.
An operating without a valid license case was read in at that sentencing.
The Details:
Jhonatan Alexis Hernandez Criminal Complaint:
According to the criminal complaint:
Hernandez was living in Green Bay and is 27 years old.
The reports were prepared by a narcotics investigator for the Brown County Drug Task Force.
On Dec. 14, 2022, a controlled buy was made by a confidential informant for 20 counterfeit Percocet pills containing fentanyl for $300 from Hernandez. He contacted Hernandez through text messages and phone calls to prearrange the controlled buy. Hernandez had a phone number he used “to arrange drug deals.”
Hernandez said he would sell him ten pills “by boys and girls club.”
He said he was selling the pills for $20. He then told the confidential informant to come to a home where he was staying by a “stupid b*tch” to complete the buy, which the CI did. He ended up buying seven counterfeit Percocet pills which contained fentanyl, the complaint says.
The complaint also says:
Hernandez also wanted the CI to meet him at Festival Foods. He purchased marijuana from him. There were two small children in the residence. Marijuana and a glass pipe used to smoke meth were found. The pills tested positive for fentanyl. Hernandez also asked the CI to help him sell marijuana.
Jhonatan Alexis Hernandez Criminal Complaint:
ICE Detainers Plunge Under Biden-Harris
Illegal immigrants committing crimes is not a story that the corporate media and Vice President Kamala Harris want to tell, especially as border crossings have surged.
ICE revealed that this month that “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket which includes those detained by ICE and on the agency’s non-detained docket.” Of that, more than 13,000 are convicted murderers.
Under Biden/Harris, the number of U.S Border Patrol “encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico in December 2023” hit “the highest monthly total on record,” according to Pew Research Center.
The Biden administration issued just under 300,000 detainers from 2021 through the first quarter of 2024, a rising number, according to Trac Immigration, a project of Syracuse University. However, “overall 50 percent more ICE detainers were issued during the Trump presidency (FY 2017 – FY 2020),” Trac says.
Detainers “are critical for ICE to be able to identify and ultimately remove criminal aliens who are currently in federal, state or local custody,” ICE says. ICE detainers ask local law enforcement to hold a non-citizen inmate for 48 hours before release into the community so ICE can pick them up.
Inmates with detainers are only the people that ICE discovers and where ICE decides to act. Some jails, such as Dane County’s, don’t honor all ICE detainers and don’t give ICE 48 hours to pick up the inmates before release. At the other end of the spectrum stands a jail like Waukesha County, where the sheriff received federal immigration authority through a program called 287g.
ICE detainers “are often used as one indicator of the intensity of what is called ‘interior enforcement’ in contrast to ‘border enforcement,’ Trac writes.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “has long claimed that detainers, often called ‘immigration holds,’ are an essential tool needed to apprehend and deport individuals not authorized to remain in the U.S.,” the site says. “Detainers are supposed to be targeted at noncitizens who have committed crimes here in the U.S.”
In addition, the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested more than 15,000 criminal non-citizens in 2024 alone, including 27 murderers and 202 people for sexual offenses. But those are just the people they catch.
From 2006 to 2023, ICE placed detainers on more than 14,000 non-citizens living in Wisconsin, Trac says.
The first year of Biden-Harris saw the lowest numbers of ICE detainers issued since at least 2006. The Milwaukee and Dane County Jails had the most ICE detainers issued of any jurisdictions in Wisconsin during the time frame below, according to Trac.
The corporate media tend to focus on studies that show illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than non-citizens or they focus mostly on the other side of the coin – say, illegal immigrants whose labor helps keep dairy farms alive. The citizens who committed crimes had a right to be here; illegal immigrants did not. A tougher border policy might have prevented illegal immigrant crimes from occurring in the first place. The stories are worth telling.
“Although no federal law requires cooperation with ICE, many state and local laws, and sometimes court rulings, regulate compliance with ICE detainers,” The Immigrant Legal Resource Center says. Some states have made compliance mandatory, but Wisconsin is not one of them.
“Legally, the requirement of probable cause means ICE can only issue a detainer against (a) a noncitizen, who (b) is already ‘removable.’ A removable noncitizen is someone who can be put in removal proceedings for possible deportation,” the center says.
“ICE describes a detainer as a request to a ‘law enforcement agency to notify ICE before a removable individual is released from custody and to maintain custody of the noncitizen for a brief period so that ICE can take custody of that person,'” Trac says.
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