Woman accused of murder, kidnapping baby was living in US illegally – IOTW Report

Woman accused of murder, kidnapping baby was living in US illegally

NYP: WICHITA, Kan. — A Dallas woman accused of killing a Wichita mother and taking her baby was in the country illegally when she was released from a Kansas jail this summer before immigration officials had a chance to request she be held, law enforcement authorities said Wednesday.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not receive the July 25 list of arrests from the Sedgwick County sheriff’s office showing Yesenia Sesmas’ name on it until the following day, and by that time she had already been released from local custody, said ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok. The agency would have asked that she be detained if Sesmas, a Mexican national, had still been in jail, he said.

Sesmas posted bond and was released less than 24 hours after her arrest in that case, said Col. Brenda Dietzman, undersheriff for the Sedgwick County sheriff’s office.

Even if ICE had made the request, it is not clear that the county would have honored it. Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter announced in 2014 that the jail would no longer honor ICE requests to hold inmates unless the agency presents a warrant or court order requiring them to hold an inmate in custody longer.  read more

5 Comments on Woman accused of murder, kidnapping baby was living in US illegally

  1. “Sedgwick County officials say they have no record of an ICE request to hold Sesmas when she was in custody in Kansas in the summer for allegedly threatening another Wichita woman with a knife and trying to hold that woman’s two daughters for ransom.”So … she was already in jail for a rehearsal of the murder she carried out a short time later. And law enforcement officials play the shell game of blame.

  2. …she was released from a Kansas jail this summer before immigration officials had a chance to request she be held…

    Utter bull.

    That should be “…before immigration officials took advantage of the situation she was released…”

    Or maybe “…immigration officials couldn’t be bothered to ask that she be held, so she was released…”

    Or it could have been “immigration officials wanted to have her held so they could pick her up from jail but were ordered not to do so by higher-ups…”

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