Chicago Tribune Names Two ICE Agents
One is Guillermo Diaz-Torres was arrested for DUI after his shift at the infamous Broadview Detention Center. His supervisor, Joel Canedo, picked him up the next morning from jail.
WASHINGTON — An ICE agent working Chicago’s Broadview detention hub was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after crashing a rented SUV into a hedgerow in the western suburbs shortly before 2 a.m. on Oct. 26, according to police records and body-camera footage obtained by the Chicago Tribune.
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The driver, identified as Guillermo J. Diaz-Torres, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., told officers he had just finished an 18-hour shift at the Broadview ICE facility and was heading to a Lombard hotel when the crash occurred. He is scheduled for arraignment Dec. 5 in DuPage County on a misdemeanor DUI charge. If convicted, he faces penalties ranging from probation up to one year in jail.
The Tribune’s ace reporting breaks with with long-standing media practice, of not naming ICE field agents in news stories. In fact, no field agent that we know of had been named in news reports this year prior to this scoop story by reporter Christy Gutowski.