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A Guatemalan illegal immigrant accused of killing a police officer last year has been released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.
Virgilio Aguilar Mendez, 19, was charged with aggravated manslaughter of an officer after a scuffle involving several law enforcement officers in May 2023.
St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Michael Kunovich died as a result of the incident, but charges against Mendez were dropped last month.
Mendez reportedly crossed the Mexico-US border in early 2023 and was released into the United States. According to his attorney, he had been working on a farm near St. Augustine and sending money back to Guatemala.
On May 19, 2023, in St. Johns County, Florida, Sgt. Michael Kunovich found Mendez sitting outside a closed business in St. Augustine and attempted to check him for weapons. Mendez, who was 18 at the time, resisted and tried to flee.
Other officers also got involved, trying to apprehend Mendez in what turned out to be a six-minute struggle. At one point, Mendez tried to grab Kunovich’s taser, and also managed to pulled out a pocket knife even after he was handcuffed.
After the struggle with Mendez, Kunovich collapsed on the ground from a heart attack, and could not be revived. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Kunovich had served with the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office for 25 years.
News4JAX reported:
Aguilar Mendez has been in custody since his initial arrest– but a judge eventually ruled he was not competent to stand trial because of “educational, cultural, and linguistic challenges,” as he speaks a local dialect.
Last month, lawyers for Mendez filed a lawsuit, claiming he is disabled because he does not speak English or Spanish and was thus denied his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
However, the illegal alien is NOT an American.
The Florida Times-Union reported:
Aguilar Mendez’s native language is Mam, not Spanish or English, according to the filing. His limited understanding of English and Spanish is his disability, and he was denied an interpreter at the scene and at the Sheriff’s Office to allow him to understand his Miranda rights before Jimenez interrogated him.
The lawsuit does not note that Jimenez questioned him in Spanish, which is referenced in arrest documents, but states Mam “translation into other languages, such as Spanish or English, can take on a different structure.”
Breitbart quoted the lawyer as claiming, “Mr. Virgilio was a victim of police brutality. He was a victim of racial profiling. He was a victim of violation of his fourth, fifth, and sixth amendment constitutional rights. Those who are responsible for this abuse will be held accountable.”
Lawyers for 19-year-old illegal alien Virgilio Aguilar-Mendez claim that their client is disabled because he does not speak English or Spanish and was thus denied his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
AMERICANS. With. Disabilities. Act. pic.twitter.com/0jHR080vuJ
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 21, 2024
Fox News reported that Aguilar Mendez’s lawyer, Phillip Arroyo, posted a TikTok video on Friday, showing the moment Mendez was released for the first time since May 2023. Arroyo is seen walking with the teen out of the jail.
In the original post, Arroyo wrote in Spanish, “Virgilio Aguilar finally FREE! God is great.”
The video was re-posted to X/Twitter by a columnist for the Boston Globe, who also cheered that the illegal alien had been released.
Great news!
Another update to Virgilio Aguilar Mendez: He’s been released from immigration custody.
I wrote about the Florida prosecutor’s dismissal of the criminal charges in my newsletter today: https://t.co/ga0mAOLpQr #JusticeForVirgilio
And now he’s free
H/T @PhillipArroyo pic.twitter.com/XaNwzBjusz— Marcela E. García (@marcela_elisa) March 15, 2024
After being racially profiled, beaten, tased, put into a chokehold by St John County Sheriff deputies in St. Augustine, FL, unjustly charged for alleged manslaughter of a police officer after one of the deputies had a heart attack and locked in jail for more than 10 months;… pic.twitter.com/1SQuwDMPFi
— The Arroyo Law Firm (@PhillipArroyo) March 16, 2024
BREAKING NEWS: 18-year-old migrant worker, once charged in death of St. Johns County deputy, is released from custody https://t.co/iPa7Ru01Vc
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) March 15, 2024
Virgilio Aguilar Mendez, the teen migrant from Guatemala who was arrested following the death of a Florida police officer, has been freed from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s custody his lawyers told @ABC News. https://t.co/oLGyHsihvZ
— ABC News (@ABC) March 16, 2024
Guatemalan illegal migrant accused in police sergeant’s death is released https://t.co/RoI426chev
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 17, 2024
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