Colorado sheriff’s deputy disciplined for helping immigration agents resigns, ending lawsuit
Denver (AP) – Colorado Assistant Sheriff Disciplined to help federal immigrant agents Arrest a university student from Brazil resigned.
Department spokesman Heather Benjamin said on Tuesday that Alexander Zwinc did not work for the Şerif office of Mesa district. ZWinck’s separation encouraged to quit the chief prosecutor of the state A case against him The charges of the deputy shared illegally with immigration agencies.
Zwinck said that he plans to resign in the court applications, and upon the request of both Weiser and Zwinck, a judge agreed to reject the Chief Public Prosecutor Phil Weiser against Zwinck.
Weiser filed a lawsuit against a judge to order Zwinc to follow a new state law after being accused of helping the representatives of immigration to arrest the student in June. CT prevents local government employees, including law enforcement officers, sharing information about Federal immigration officials. The state, criticism and criticism and a CASE FROM THE Federal Government.
A lawyer Michael Lowe for ZWinck did not return a phone call or e -mail looking for a comment on the allegations against Zwinc.
In response to the case filed in the court, Zwinck, 19 -year -old nursing student about two weeks before stopping Colorado Gov. Jared rejected that he deliberately violated the state law signed by the police.
The case claimed that Zwinck had shared the woman’s license, vehicle registration and insurance information in a signal conversation used by a drug duty force members containing immigration authorities.
Federal immigrant officers said that the student did not have a penalty history in the conversation, but that he had a full -time visa, and that Zwinc provided them with their position and asked him to wait for about five minutes in his patrol car, his accent and where he was born. The case allowed him to go with a warning and gave the federal agents a statement of his vehicle and told him to arrest him.
During an internal investigation by the Şerif Office, Zwinck said he did not know the new law and was not interested in immigration sanctions.
The internal investigation found that Zwink had helped immigration agents and another duty member shared information with them and both deputies caused them to be temporarily suspended without paying. Two auditors received consultancy as a result of a disciplined and third supervisor investigation.
Case and disciplinary penalties came as Colorado and other MPs States led by Democratic President Donald prepared a legislation aimed at returning against comprehensive immigration pressures of Trump. Trump took hundreds of people State and local law enforcement officers To help them to be illegally identified by immigrants in the United States and to be deported to potential deportation.
