If this story angers you, disgusts you, or reinforces the importance of President Donald Trump's aggressive use of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to hunt down and detain "the worst of the worst" illegal aliens, many of whom were welcomed into the U.S. during the disastrous Biden-Harris administration, you're not the Lone Ranger; it had a chilling, "all of the above," effect on me as I wrote it.
ICE officers in Chicago arrested a Mexican illegal alien accused of murdering a missing Illinois woman, as reported by Fox News on Saturday, but the rest of the story is even worse.
Turns out Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, of Waukegan, Illinois, was arrested in April and accused of decapitating 37-year-old Megan Bos, abusing her corpse, and concealing her decapitated body in a storage container filled with bleach. He was also charged with obstruction of justice, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Even worse, if that's possible, immediately after Mendoza-Gonzalez's first court appearance, Lake County, Illinois, Judge Randie Bruno released him from custody.
According to the deceased woman's family, she had been missing since February.
Setting aside the usual "How could a human being do something so vile to another human being?" question, the better question is, why would a judge in his or her right mind release such an animal to perhaps strike again?
A DHS spokesman told Fox News:
It is absolutely repulsive this monster walked free on Illinois’ streets after allegedly committing such a heinous crime. Megan Bos and her family will have justice.
While Megan's family might have "justice," they will never again have Megan.
After Mendoza-Gonzalez's inexplicable release in April, Antioch, IL, Mayor Scott Gartner blasted a law that allowed the suspected criminal alien to be released:
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. 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.
Exactly. Also exactly:
Controversial Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker signed the insane SAFE-T Act into law in December 2022. The act was trumpeted by Pritzker and other Democrats as part of a transition to cashless bail. Pritzker absurdly said at the time:
I'm pleased that the General Assembly has passed clarifications that uphold the principle we fought to protect: to bring an end to a system where wealthy violent offenders can buy their way out of jail, while less fortunate nonviolent offenders wait in jail for trial. Advocates and lawmakers came together and put in hours of work to strengthen and clarify this law, uphold our commitment to equity, and keep people safe.
"Nonviolent offenders," huh?
Last time I checked, decapitating a person and keeping the corpse in a storage container filled with bleach for more than two months didn't qualify as a "nonviolent" crime.
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According to the police report at the time, Mendoza-Gonzalez allegedly told authorities that Bos overdosed at his house and, instead of calling 911, he broke her phone and kept her body in the basement for two days before moving it outside.
Horrific indeed. Except, I suppose, to rioters who continue to assault ICE agents across America.