Man faces deportation after attempt to flee from sheriff (Daily Review Atlas)

Man faces deportation after attempt to flee from sheriff

Daily Review Atlas
Tue Feb 10, 2009, 10:12 AM CST

MONMOUTH — Three alleged illegal immigrants are facing deportation after a routine traffic stop.

Sheriff Martin Edwards stopped 23-year-old Ranold Estrada at about 1 p .m. Jan. 27 for speeding at U.S. 34 near the Henderson County line. Estrada, who resides in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, was arrested for no valid driver's license and taken to the Warren County Sheriff's Department.

Edwards contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who subsequently placed a hold on Estrada.

On Jan. 29, Francisco T. Chivalan, 22, Mt. Pleasant, came to the Warren County Sheriff's Department to pick up the van that was driven by Estrada at the time of his arrest. After conferring with ICE, he too was detained.

A third person, Osman Lopez, 23, Mt. Pleasant, was waiting in the parking lot near the sheriff’s office. Edwards asked him to come into the office for identification purposes and at that time Lopez attempted to flee. Edwards and Coroner Bill Underwood, who happened to be outside his office at the time, apprehended Lopez after a short foot chase.

He was charged with fleeing and eluding police and resisting arrest. He was booked at the Warren County Sheriff's Department and subsequently released to ICE.

Lopez sustained minor injuries from the chase and was treated at the sheriff's department.

ICE took the three to face a deportation judge in Chicago, Edwards said. All three indicated to a translator they were from Guatemala.