GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Grand Rapids Police Department says an internal investigation shows the officer who contacted Immigration Customs Enforcement about a U.S. military veteran did so based only on the suspect’s actions.
Jilmar Ramos-Gomez was arrested on Nov. 21 after he allegedly set a fire inside Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, pulling the fire alarm and somehow making it onto the helipad.
He was set to be released from the Kent County jail on a personal recognizance bond on Dec. 14, but instead, he was picked up and taken to the Calhoun County Jail for ICE, which used a detainment request.
Ramos-Gomez spent three days at the Calhoun County Jail, facing deportation proceedings. He was released afterRamos-Gomez’ mothercontacted an attorney who provided proof of his U.S. citizenship to ICE.
ACLU of West Michigan attorney Miriam Aukerman called the case “plainly racial profiling and evidence of ICE’s abuse of power.”