ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center – Chicago Tribune
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing drunken driving charges after police said his car jumped a curb and crashed into a hedgerow in the west suburbs.
Guillermo Diaz-Torres, 33, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will be arraigned next month in DuPage County following a one-car crash in Oak Brook on Oct. 26. Police allege he failed several field-sobriety tests, including balancing, walking in a straight line and reciting the alphabet.
If convicted, Diaz-Torres could face penalties ranging from probation to up to a year in jail. Throughout its immigration crackdown, the Trump administration repeatedly has referred to drunken driving as a justifiable reason for non-citizens to be detained and deported.
Operation Midway Blitz — the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s mass deportation effort in the Chicago area — was launched in honor of a young suburban woman who was killed by a man accused of driving drunk while being in the country without the legal paperwork.
According to police video obtained by the Tribune, Diaz-Torres told officers he had just finished working an 18-hour shift at the ICE holding facility in Broadview and was heading straight to his hotel in Lombard. Though it was nearly 2 a.m., and Broadview is less than 10 miles away, Diaz-Torres couldn’t account for his whereabouts during the roughly 90-minute period after his shift ended and said he didn’t know which direction he had traveled after work.
“I have no idea, sir,” he tells police on the video. “I’m not from here.”
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Christy Gutowski and Jason Meisner.
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