RELEASED BY A DEMOCRAT TO WAGE WAR ON WOMEN
The man arrested following a nine-hour standoff in south Charlotte Thursday had been released from county jail last week — even though immigration officials had placed a detainer on him, federal authorities say.
Luis Pineda-Ancheta’s release is the result, in part, of shifting practices in Mecklenburg County on how local officials do — or don’t — cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
Following his election in November, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden (DEMOCRAT) halted that cooperation, and initiated a policy of refusing to honor immigration detainers.
Pineda-Ancheta, 37, barricaded himself inside the walls of an apartment off Sharon Road West, as police tried to serve him multiple warrants on domestic violence charges and a SWAT unit was called.
Barely a week earlier, he had been booked into jail on similar charges, allegedly against the same victim, and released on bond despite the detainer. A native of Honduras, he has been deported from the U.S. once before and is living in the U.S. illegally.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have warned that the sheriff’s decision to stop working with them would create a public safety risk, by putting dangerous criminals back on the street. This incident, they say, confirms that warning.
The warrants for his arrest Thursday were on charges of assault by strangulation, kidnapping, assault on a female, communicating threats and violation of a domestic violence protective order, according to jail records.
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