Ice Files Detainer On Migrant Accused Of Defiling Corpse On Nyc Subway

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged a detainer against a migrant illegally surviving successful nan U.S. accused of raping a corpse connected a New York City subway train. Crime Stoppers released surveillance video showing 2 men allegedly robbing an unconscious big antheral aboard a southbound R train adjacent nan Whitehall Street subway position connected April 9.

In nan video, prosecutors opportunity 1 of nan suspects is besides seen performing intersexual acts connected nan unresponsive passenger.

It was later wished that nan victim, identified by family arsenic 37-year-old Jorge Gonzalez — a begetter and hubby — had died of earthy causes aboard nan train, The New York Post reports.

The New York Daily News said to Gonzalez’ estranged wife, who investigators told that they believed he died from cirrhosis of nan liver aft years of alcoholism.

Arrest and charges

The New York City Police Department arrested Felix Rojas connected Sunday, April 27. He appeared successful court, was arraigned and charged pinch rape and expansive larceny. Prosecutors opportunity he sodomized Gonzalez’s assemblage for much than 30 minutes.

Immigration detainer filed

According to ICE, Rojas had entered nan state illegally respective times, making love backmost to 1998. It’s unclear erstwhile he past entered nan country. ICE has lodged a detainer petition pursuing his arrest.

“With impunity, unfastened separator policies person allowed convulsive criminal aliens to terrorize America’s towns and cities,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said successful nan announcement of nan detainer.

New York astatine a crossroads

The schematic crime successful a New York City subway comes arsenic Mayor Eric Adams has promised to activity pinch nan Trump management to conflict immigration-related crime successful his city. Adams had primitively signed an executive bid to found an ICE outpost connected Rikers Island, but a New York judge, connected April 21, issued a impermanent restraining bid against nan plan. 

Gov. Kathy Hochul connected Dec. 18, 2024, directed 250 members of nan New York National Guard to beryllium deployed to Joint Task Force – Empire Shield, an cognition aimed astatine making New York City’s subways safer.

On April 28, President Donald Trump signed an bid directing national agencies to place and unit sanctuary cities and states that do not comply pinch migration enforcement, of which New York City is one.