The Minnesota Department of Corrections says state court records show only misdemeanor-level traffic offenses from more than a decade ago.
Border Patrol agents were seeking a man with a criminal record when an agent fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the Border Patrol commander said Sunday. But the Minnesota Department of Corrections says state court records show only misdemeanor-level traffic offenses from more than a decade ago.
Commander Greg Bovino said Sunday that Jose Huerta-Chuma has a record of domestic assault, intentional infliction of bodily harm and disorderly conduct. He had not been apprehended as of early Sunday afternoon.
Huerta-Chuma has never been in prison in Minnesota, according to a Saturday night statement from the Corrections Department.
“DOC records further indicate that an individual by this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018, during President Trump’s first administration,” the statement said. “Any decisions regarding release from federal custody at that time would have been made by federal authorities. DOC has no information explaining why this individual was released.”
Bovino said he didn’t know of the 2018 case, but said Huerta-Chuman is in the U.S. illegally.
“We can go back and look and blame,” Bovino said. “… Right now, my mission is to take this individual off the street.”Border Patrol: Pretti was ‘interfering’
Bovino, who has recently been holding daily press conferences, started Sunday’s by talking about “choices.
