Jose Angel Hernandez-Pineda, identified by a Mexican passport, admitted selling 10+ kilograms of cocaine in the Brown County area within the past 6 months, according to a criminal complaint. Drug agents found a gun and cocaine in his apartment in Bellevue, in Brown County. Hernandez-Pineda told investigators he got a phone call from Mexico about drugs. He last had a job “a long time ago.”
From Sept. 25 through the presidential election, we are telling 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.
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.
FILE #14
The Defendant: JOSE ANGEL HERNANDEZ-PINEDA
The Jail: Brown County, Wisconsin
The Charges: POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DELIVER COCAINE (> 40G); POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DELIVER/DISTRIBUTE A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ON OR NEAR A PARK
Date of Offense: March 7, 2024
National Origin: Mexico
ICE detainer: Issued March 7, 2024
The Details:
Jose Angel Hernandez-Pineda, whose address is given as Green Bay, was identified by a Mexican passport.
According to the criminal complaint:
A special agent with the DEA surveilled a house in the Village of Bellevue in Brown County on March 7, 2024, when he saw Hernandez-Pineda exit. The vehicle turned into the parking lot of the JBS in Green Bay and authorities observed what they believed to be a drug transaction.
Police eventually received consent to search the car and found a small corner baggy on the ear passenger floorboard.
Hernandez-Pineda became extremely nervous and said he needed a translator when the agent spoke to him about searching his apartment.
He then allowed authorities to search his Bellevue apartment, and they found 2,495.57 grams of cocaine, a handgun, and a digital scale, as well as US currency, the complaint says. In a black box, authorities recovered numerous individually packaged bags of a white powdery substance, which appeared to be cocaine.
“Hernandez-Pineda led N/I Harvath and SA Beckman to the bathroom closet and pulled out a red duffel bag. SA Beckman opened the duffel bag and observed two black brick-shaped objects, which he recognized as packaging suspected to contain two kilos of cocaine,” the complaint says. “Hernandez-Pineda stated that all the drugs were cocaine. SA Beckman asked Hernandez-Pineda if there was money in the apartment. Hernandez-Pineda led SA Beckman to the master bedroom.”
Hernandez-Pineda “informed investigators that he sells cocaine by the kilo or in ounce quantities. Hernandez-Pineda estimated he sold 10+ kilos of cocaine in the Brown County area in the past 6 months,” the complaint said.
“An ounce (approximately 28 grams) of cocaine in Brown County can be sold for around $1,400 depending on the source. If sold in ounce quantities, the cocaine located in the apartment is worth approximately $124,750,” it said.
Hernandez-Pineda told investigators he got a phone call from Mexico about drugs. He last had a job “a long time ago.” Hernandez-Pineda “was in possession of multiple thousands of dollars and has no known means to make money besides selling cocaine and Hernandez-Pineda acknowledged this conclusion, the complaint says.
Hernandez-Pineda “also informed investigators there was a gun in the bathroom,” the complaint says. “I observed a Glock handgun, magazines, and ammunition in these boxes,” officers wrote. He had an outstanding extradition warrant at the time of his Brown County arrest, the complaint says, although it doesn’t detail it.
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.
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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