ICE arrested Ramon Morales-Reyes, a 54-year-old from Mexico on Might 22, 2025.
Courtesy: U.S. Homeland Safety
The undocumented Mexican immigrant who was detained after being framed by a jailed inmate for threatening President Donald Trump may be launched on a $7,500 bond, a Chicago Immigration Courtroom decide dominated Tuesday morning.
Decide Carla Espinoza stated at a listening to that she doesn’t imagine Milwaukee resident Ramon Morales-Reyes is a hazard to the group pending removing proceedings.
The decide famous that though the 54-year-old Morales-Reyes has been arrested a number of instances since 1996, he has solely been convicted as soon as, for disorderly conduct.
An legal professional representing the Department of Homeland Security didn’t oppose a request by the immigrant’s lawyer, Cain Oulahan, requesting bond. Oulahan and Morales-Reyes appeared remotely, with the immigrant nonetheless detained in Dodge County Jail in Wisconsin.
Espinoza stated that if Morales-Reyes is unable to put up bond, the following listening to within the case will likely be on July 10, and that she would set one other date if the married dad of three is launched.
CNBC has requested remark from Oulahan.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, in a press release, stated, “Whereas this felony unlawful alien is now not beneath investigation for threats in opposition to the President, he’s within the nation illegally with earlier arrests for felony hit and run, felony harm to property, and disorderly conduct with home abuse.”
“The Trump administration is dedicated to restoring the rule of legislation and fulfilling the President’s mandate to deport unlawful aliens. DHS will proceed to struggle for the arrest, detention, and removing of unlawful aliens who don’t have any proper to be on this nation,” McLaughlin stated.
U.S. Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem speaks on the Border Safety Expo on the Phoenix Conference Heart in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. April 8, 2025.
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Morales-Reyes, who has lived in the USA since 1986, was arrested Might 22 on suspicion that he had written three letters to legislation enforcement officers in Wisconsin that threatened Trump and others.
Per week later, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem touted Morales-Reyes’ arrest in a news release that referred to as the dishwasher an “unlawful alien,” and featured his photograph, in addition to a picture of a handwritten letter threatening to shoot “your valuable president” Trump.
However Milwaukee police who questioned Morales-Reyes rapidly realized there was an issue with the allegations in opposition to him, courtroom data present.
First, a handwriting pattern Morales-Reyes offered was “utterly completely different” from the writing on the letters and the envelopes, which bore his dwelling tackle because the return tackle, a felony grievance says. Additionally, Morales-Reyes doesn’t converse, learn, or write English fluently, whereas the writing within the letters was in English.
When a police detective requested Morales-Reyes, “Who would need to get [him] in hassle, [he] said that the one one who would need to get him in [trouble] was the one who had robbed him and who legislation enforcement is aware of to be the defendant, Demetric D. Scott.“
Scott, who’s detained in Milwaukee County Jail, was arrested in late 2023 for allegedly robbing Morales-Reyes and attacking him with a field cutter.
Scott, 52, instructed police in late Might that he had written the threatening letters about Trump, and put Morales-Reyes’ tackle on the envelopes earlier than they have been despatched on his behalf by others, to get the immigrant arrested by federal authorities in order that he can be unable to testify at Scott’s felony trial in July, courtroom data state.
Demetric Scott, accused of writing threatening letters about President Donald Trump to get an immigrant deported.
Supply: Milwaukee County Jail
Scott hoped that his case can be dismissed when Morales-Reyes failed to seem in courtroom, these data say.
Scott has been charged with identification theft, felony intimidation of a witness, and bail leaping in reference to the letters plot.
On the time Morales-Reyes was arrested, he had utilized for a particular kind of visa out there to victims of sure crimes.
The online web page asserting the Morales-Reyes’ arrest stays up on DHS’s web site, with the now discredited allegations in opposition to him.
On the backside of that web page is a “disclaimer,” which notes that he’s now not beneath investigation for threatening Trump.
— Dan Mangan reported from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and Halle Lukasiewicz reported from Chicago