The federal agent main the federal government’s intensified immigration enforcement marketing campaign in Chicago has wrongly recognized a person detained by ICE brokers as a rapist who was let loose to roam the town whereas awaiting trial.
The person proven in a photograph accompanying Gregory Bovino’s publish — firmly held by brokers in one of many feds’ trademark “glamour photographs” — has by no means been accused of raping anybody, besides by Bovino.
“Why are we within the better Chicago space?” Bovino’s publish started. “To arrest dangerous individuals and dangerous issues.”
He went on to explain the person detained within the accompanying picture as “Exhibit A.”
“Along with 9 earlier arrests (together with felony and misdemeanor convictions), his most up-to-date arrest made nationwide information, when on March 30, 2025, he allegedly posed as a rideshare driver in Chicago, IL and sexually assaulted a girl inside his car after choosing her up exterior a neighborhood nightclub,” Bovino wrote. “He was charged with aggravated legal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping with bodily hurt, and illegal restraint. He was launched from detention two days after his arrest.”
OK. Let’s break that down.
The case Bovino is referring to includes a person named Alexander Ramos. To one of the best of our information, we’re the one information outlet that reported on Ramos’ arrest, which occurred on August 16, not March 30. However we actually respect being thought-about “nationwide information.”
March 30 is, nevertheless, the date that Ramos allegedly lured a 32-year-old girl into his SUV by posing as a rideshare driver exterior the Hangge Uppe nightclub at 14 West Elm Road. As soon as inside his automotive, prosecutors stated, the sufferer drifted out and in of consciousness as Ramos drove her round earlier than stopping within the 1100 block of North Lake Shore Drive. She awoke to search out him sexually assaulting her, and prosecutors stated he continued the assault after she resisted.
“With a prolonged and violent legal document courting again to 2002, why has he been residing free as a fowl within the Windy Metropolis?” Bovino requested on X. “Due to Chicago’s embrace of sanctuary insurance policies, which harm slightly than assist its residents. However no extra. Operation Halfway Blitz is right here to rid Chicago of legal unlawful aliens like him.”
Cling on there, commander. Decide John Hock ordered Ramos detained on August 18, and he has been within the Cook dinner County Jail ever since.
As for his “prolonged and violent legal document courting again to 2002,” Cook dinner County court docket information present just one native felony conviction: a 2014 theft case that resulted in probation.
So, who’s the man being restrained by brokers within the picture Bovino posted? We have been questioning that ourselves. WGN figured it out: He’s Columbino Ramos, a totally completely different man who appears to be like considerably like Alexander Ramos.
In accordance with WGN, Columbino Ramos’ daughter stated her father has lived within the U.S. with out documentation for “a few years,” working as a scrapper. ICE brokers reportedly lured him right into a entice final month by calling for him to choose up non-existent scrap steel in Norwood Park.
Since his arrest, Columbino Ramos has been moved amongst federal services in 5 completely different states, his daughter informed WGN. Now, the federal authorities has labeled him a rapist and, as of Friday morning, Bovino has not set the document straight.
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