I followed up with the federal authorities following my correspondence with Star Tribune breaking news reporter Paul Walsh yesterday. I heard from Walsh again this morning, but for the moment I want only to update the story with this statement from an ICE spokesperson received after the close of business this afternoon:
U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed a detainer on German Llangari Inga, 35, of Ecuador, with the Hennepin County Jail, Minnesota, Aug. 4, 2024, after he was arrested for criminal vehicular homicide. The Hennepin County Jail did not honor the detainer and released Llangari without notification to ICE Aug. 6, 2024, and he remains at large. Llangari initially entered the United States in June 2016, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, issued an order of expedited removal and placed into removal proceedings.
Contrary to the lazy gibes of the Star Tribune reporter, the newsworthiness of this aspect of the story equals or exceeds that of the charges against Llangari Inga. Were it not for the defiance of federal law by the local authorities, this criminal Ecuadorian would be in custody today.
