AR lawyer seeks release of illegal
May 20, 2009
A lawyer representing a man detained in Faulkner County on a U.S. immigration agency hold is asking the county's circuit court to free his client.
Oscar Castro-Gomez, a Pulaski County resident, was arrested April 12 in Conway on theft of property charges, according to an emergency petition for writ of habeas corpus filed in Faulkner County Circuit Court by lawyer Leonardo Monterrey.
Though the theft charges were dropped, Castro-Gomez has been detained at the Faulkner County jail on an immigration hold ever since, the petition said.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock)
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