US EditionFive Colorado Deputies Reprimanded After Sharing Student Info with ICE
MESA COUNTY, COLORADO, JUL 30 – Five Mesa County deputies disciplined for violating Colorado law by sharing immigration information leading to a 19-year-old student's detention, officials said.
- On June 5, a deputy from the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office stopped 19-year-old Caroline Dias-Goncalves, a University of Utah student, near Loma along Interstate 70.
- Deputy Zwinck shared Dias-Goncalves' details and whereabouts through a Signal chat involving various law enforcement agencies, which allowed ICE to locate her and subsequently arrest her for overstaying her tourist visa.
- Dias-Goncalves, originally from Brazil and a Dreamer brought to the U.S. in 2012, spent about two weeks detained at an ICE facility in Aurora before being released on bond June 20.
- On July 22, Colorado’s top legal official, Phil Weiser, initiated legal action against Zwinck, accusing him of breaching state laws that limit collaboration between local police and federal immigration authorities.
- Following an administrative review, Mesa County disciplined five deputies including Zwinck with unpaid leave and reassignment, while the Colorado State Patrol ceased participation in the chat to reassess its use.
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Five Colorado deputies reprimanded after sharing student info with ICE
A college student was held for 15 days in an Aurora, Colorado, detention center after being pulled over in Mesa County. An internal review found that five sheriff’s deputies violated policy by sharing her information with federal immigration authorities in a Signal group chat. Officials say Deputy Alexander Zwinck sent the student’s details to a law enforcement group chat that included members from ICE and Homeland Security Investigations. That …
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A Colorado law enforcement officer has been sued for cooperating with federal immigration agents. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sued Mesa County Sheriff’s Deputy Alexander Zwinck last week after Zwinck reportedly sent federal agents information about a student present in the U.S. illegally, The Associated Press first reported. Zwinck and another deputy, Erik Olson, have also been placed on unpaid leave; Zwinck for three weeks and Olso…
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Five sheriff’s deputies from Colorado are being disciplined after a college student spent two weeks in a federal immigration detention center last month after a routine traffic stop. An administrative review concluded that Sheriff’s Deputy Alexander Zwinck shared information on a Signal group chat that included federal immigration agents after he had pulled over Caroline Dias-Goncalves, 19, a student at the University of Utah, Mesa County Sherif…
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