A Venezuelan migrant arrested 16 instances since arriving in Chicago in October 2023 is now in ICE custody, data present.
Again in February, after his thirteenth arrest, we reported {that a} Cook dinner County decide warned Josue Vargas Rodriguez that he could be eligible for deportation as a result of he pleaded responsible to making an attempt to rob a girl in Streeterville. Extremely, Rodriguez was subsequently launched from custody after that court docket listening to and he managed to get arrested three extra instances earlier than the feds lastly scooped him up, data present.
Rodriguez, also referred to as Santos Vargas, Santiago Bargas Rodriguez, Santiago Jose Vargas Rodriguez, and Ramon Vargas, is now cooling his heels on the Clay County Justice Middle in Indiana.
Final November, Chicago cops arrested Rodriguez after a 43-year-old lady intervened upon seeing him use a rock to attempt to break the lock off her electrical bike within the 400 block of North Metropolis Entrance Place in Streeterville.
When she tried to take her bike again, the 20-year-old Rodriguez swung the rock, then slapped and struggled together with her, in keeping with a Chicago police report. A witness jumped in to disarm and detain Rodriguez till officers arrived.
Rodriguez was on pretrial launch for 3 separate shoplifting instances on the time of the theft try. The primary decide to see him in regards to the theft allegations famous that he “continues to commit crimes towards residents in Chicago.”
He pleaded responsible to tried theft within the case on February 6, incomes him a two-year probation sentence from Choose Shelley Sutker-Dermer, in keeping with court docket data. She additionally sentenced him to 6 months in jail, offset by 112 days he had already spent behind bars since being arrested in Streeterville.
Prosecutors dropped the three shoplifting instances Rodriguez confronted. They beforehand dropped most of his different prison instances, primarily retail thefts, though he didn’t attend court docket for a few of them.
Sutker-Dermer took a second in the course of the February 6 listening to to advise Rodriguez that he might be deported in mild of his theft conviction, in keeping with a person who was in court docket throughout sentencing.
Rodriguez entered his plea barely every week after President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which “mandates the federal detention of unlawful immigrants who’re accused of theft, housebreaking, assaulting a legislation enforcement officer, and any crime that causes loss of life or critical bodily harm.”
Remarkably, CPD data present he managed to get arrested once more on February 27, simply three weeks after the decide sentenced him to probation and warned him in regards to the potential for deportation. This time he was charged with misdemeanor assault within the first block of East Lake within the Loop.
He obtained out of jail once more and obtained arrested once more on April 4 within the 200 block of North Wells for a felony drug cost, in keeping with CPD data.
As soon as once more, he was put again on the streets and Chicago cops arrested him two days later, on April 7 for turnstile leaping at a CTA station within the Loop.
Except Rodriguez wins a reprieve, he’s anticipated to be deported, bringing his quick however eventful keep in Chicago to an in depth.
