A newly released document used to deport a man labeled a gang member in Prince George鈥檚 County, Maryland, is now coming into question.
President Donald Trump’s administration sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, back to El Salvador in March after he was accused of being a MS-13 gang member.
The field interview report document completed by Prince George鈥檚 County police that was used to connect Abrego Garcia to MS-13 was released by U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi on Wednesday.
Labeled as a “gang field interview sheet,” the document details Abrego Garcia being stopped on March 28, 2019, with three other men, two of which were labeled as known gang members and the other suspected of being a part of MS-13.
It stated that Abrego Garcia wore 鈥渁 Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie with rolls of money covering the eyes, ears and mouth of the presidents鈥� on the bills, which was 鈥渋ndicative of the Hispanic gang culture.鈥�
“Officers contacted a past proven and reliable source of information, who advised Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is an active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique,” the document said.
Officer Ivan Mendez was one of the officers who interviewed the group, including Abrego Garcia, and helped generate the field interview report, Prince George’s County police said in a statement Thursday.
Within a month of writing that report, Mendez was suspended in April 2019 for providing information to a commercial sex worker who he was paying in exchange for sexual acts. He was later fired.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Lucia Curiel, told NBC Washington when representing Abrego Garcia at his immigration hearings in 2019, the court specifically cited the gang field interview sheet as trustworthy evidence used to tie Abrego Garcia to a gang.
“At Kilmar Abrego Garcia鈥檚 immigration court hearing, the ICE attorney stated to the judge that the only 鈥榠ntel鈥� they had on him was in fact that 鈥榠ntel鈥� from the [Prince George’s County] gang unit officer. They had nothing else and the PG officer responsible for the allegations was later fired,” Curiel said in a statement to NBC Washington.
The release of the report comes as the Department of Homeland Security posted court filing for a protective order made by Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, in May of 2021.
In a statement to 海角社区app provided by CASA, an advocacy group for immigrants, Vasquez Sura said after surviving domestic violence in a previous relationship, she filed for a temporary protective order 鈥渙ut of caution鈥� after a disagreement with Abrego Garcia 鈥渋n case things escalated.鈥�
She later decided not to appear in court and the temporary protective order request was dismissed.
After his deportation in March, Abrego Garcia was put in a notorious Salvadoran prison. He has denied being a member of a gang and has no criminal record.
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