ICE blasts Wake sheriff over release of sex offender in US illegally :: WRAL.com

ICE blasts Wake sheriff over release of sex offender in US illegally :: WRAL.com: Federal immigration authorities on Friday criticized the Wake County Sheriff's Office over the release from the county jail of a registered sex offender who is in the U.S. illegally. Furmencio Miranda-Cortazar, 45, was convicted in June of two counts of sexual battery stemming from 2015 incidents involving a 13-year-old, according to court documents. He was sentenced to consecutive 150-day jail terms and was ordered to register as a sex offender and pay $3,000 to a a child advocacy group, records show. Because he was given credit for the 11 months he had spent behind bars awaiting his day in court, Miranda-Cortazar was able to walk free the same day. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wanted him held, having identified the Mexican national as being in the U.S. illegally following his July 2018 arrest. See original work for more on this and other stories.