An unlawful immigrant accused of decapitating a lacking lady and stashing her physique in a bleach-filled container was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — three months after an Illinois choose let him stroll on the ugly costs, officers stated.
Mexican nationwide Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, was nabbed Saturday afternoon at a Chicago market after being charged with concealing and abusing the corpse of Megan Bos in April, the Division of Homeland Safety advised Fox Information.
Lake County Choose Randie Bruno shockingly lower the perp unfastened after his first courtroom look.
“It is absolutely repulsive this monster walked free on Illinois’ streets after allegedly committing such a heinous crime,” a DHS spokesperson advised the outlet.
“Megan Bos and her family will have justice.”
Mendoza-Gonzalez was first arrested in April after police found the 37-year-old sufferer’s headless physique stuffed inside a bleach-soaked storage bin within the yard of his Waukegan house, officers stated.
He allegedly advised police the girl, who was reported lacking in March after vanishing in February, had overdosed at his house, and as an alternative of calling authorities, broke her cellphone, hid her physique within the basement for 2 days, and later moved it outdoors, the outlet reported.
However police stated Bos’s corpse had been rotting in his yard for almost two months earlier than it was discovered.
Mendoza-Gonzalez was locked up however launched about 48 hours later beneath the state’s controversial SAFE-T Act, which abolished money bail and permits judges to find out jail time, regardless of how extreme the crime is, Antioch Mayor Scott Gartner stated on the time.
“I was shocked to find out literally the next day that the person that they had arrested for this had been released from prison under the SAFE-T Act less than, detained less, I think, than 48 hours,” he stated, the outlet reported.
“There’s other extenuating circumstances in this case. Not only the type of crime, how long the crime was concealed, the fact that the person that was arrested for this is not a U.S. citizen, and, you know, can maybe [flee] the country.”
Mendoza-Gonzalez is now being held in ICE custody, officers stated.
DHS didn’t instantly reply to The Put up’s request for remark.
