Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old American citizen, was held in the prison of Leon County on Thursday, who was charged with an “non-authorized extraterrestrial” because of illegal entry into Florida-as a supporter as a supporter.
A soldier of the Florida Highway Patrol arrested Lopez-Gomez after a traffic stop where he was a passenger. The 20-year-old will stay in prison for the next 48 hours and wait for the federal immigration officers to pick him up to the first degree despite his offense.
At the sight of her son, his mother, Sebastiana Gomez-Perez, broke out in tears, who performed practically for his first hearing in Leon County's courthouse. She left the courtroom disturbed because she couldn't do anything to help her born son and lives in Grady County, Georgia.
“I wanted to tell you:” Where are you going? He is from here, “said his mother, who also lives in Grady County, in Spanish moments after leaving the courtroom. “I felt immense helplessness because I couldn't do anything and I am desperate to get my son out of it.”
She continued through tears: “It hurts so. I'm sorry, I can't.”
A lieutenant who worked in Leon County's prison did not allow the mother to see Lopez-Gomez on Thursday, and informed her civil servants that they had worked together for the procedure with immigration and the customs authority. A Phoenix reporter accompanied Gomez-Perez into prison.
The judge of Leon County, Lashawn Riggans, kept the birth certificate from Lopez-Gomez to light after the lawyer of the community, Silvia Alba, swiveled the document in the courtroom.
“If the court looks at it and feels it and it sticks to the light, he can clearly see the watermark to show that this is actually an authentic document,” said Riggans.
Based on her inspection of his birth certificate and his social security card, Riggans said that she had found no likely reason for the indictment. However, the prosecutor insisted that the Court of Justice was not responsible for the release of Lopez-Gomez 'release, since the US immigration and customs authority officially asked the prison to hold it.
“This dish has no other responsibility than what I have already done,” said Riggans.
Riggans said her very sorry when Lopez-Gomez 'mother went.
“I can't do anything for her brother”
The first language of the 20-year-old is Tzotzil, a Maya language, and he took a long break when he was asked whether he would like to hire a private lawyer or receive a public defender. He lived in Mexico when he was a 1-year-old four years ago when he returned to Georgia, his mother told Phoenix.
The office for investigations in Homeland Security in Tampa published the 48-hour ice rink on Thursday. An ICE officer, whose name and telephone number appear in the Häfainer, refused to speak to the Phoenix.
“He did not commit a crime so that they can hold it out. I don't understand. I feel bad because my daughters ask me how it is her brother. It hurts because I can't do anything for her brother,” she said.
It is a recently adopted law that a federal judge temporarily prevents the state from questioning the validity of its arrest, the indictment and detention. Governor Ron Desantis signed SB 4-C on February 14th, and Kathleen Williams, judge of the US district court, blocked his enforcement on April 4.
The law makes it an offense for immigrants without papers over the age of 18 to “knowingly” entering Florida, “after entering the United States by avoiding or avoiding examinations or inspections by immigration officers”.
Two other men who were in the car with Lopez-Gomez, the driver and another passenger, also had their first appearances on the same charges on Thursday. The driver was also charged with driving without a driver's license.
The State soldier over the car that Lopez-Gomez pulled because the driver drove 78 miles per hour in a zone of 65 miles per hour in a zone of 65 miles. Lopez-Gomez gave the soldier his state of Georgia, who wrote in his report that Lopez-Gomez said he was illegal in the country.
Wednesday was arrested for the second time that Lopez-Gomez was arrested. Grady County's office took him into custody on Sunday and accused him of being under the influence, his mother said. ICE also asked the Georgia prison to keep Lopez-Gomez, but he won the release after his family showed his birth certificate and his social security card, said Gomez-Perez.
Thomas Kennedy, a political analyst at the Florida Immigrant Coalition, met Gomez-Perez in the courthouse. He said Lopez-Gomez 'case was exactly what his organization warned that the legislator would happen.
“It was just really sad to see how the mother disturbed her son, and the fact that she recognized that this is very likely a case of racial profiles against a US citizen who cannot speak English,” he said in a telephone interview with the Phoenix.
The Georgia Recorder, a partner of Florida Phoenix, has submitted a request for public records to receive further information on his arrest on Sunday. This story has been updated with information from the arrest report.
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Last updated at 9:51 p.m., April 17, 2025
