http://nypost.com/2024/06/28/us-news/haitian-migrant-accused-of-raping-teen-girl-in-boston-freed-on-500-bail/
By Jennie Taer & Olivia Land
The New York Post
June 28, 2024
A Haitian migrant accused of raping a 15-year-old at a Massachusetts shelter has been released on bail — despite a request from federal immigration officials to keep him in jail.
Cory Alvarez, who had been held without bail since his March arrest, was freed on a measly $500 bail on Tuesday after the Plymouth County Superior Court ignored a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep the suspect in custody, the Boston Herald reported.
Cory Alvarez, 26, was arrested for rape in March. Plymouth County DA's Office
“Our office moved to hold a dangerousness hearing and have Alvarez held without bail. The judge denied our motion,” a spokesperson for the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office told The Post Friday.
“We then requested that Alvarez be held on $10,000 cash bail with numerous conditions of release. The judge set bail at $500,” they explained.
Alvarez, 26, was released with an ankle monitor, but ICE officials can’t track him because Boston is a sanctuary city — meaning local authorities don’t have to cooperate with the feds.
The suspect was also ordered to remain in home confinement, surrender his passport and check in twice monthly with probation, according to legal filings obtained by the Globe. He is due back in court on Aug. 13.
Federal immigration authorities said in March that they had filed an immigration detainer against Alvarez with the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office.
However, a spokesperson for the enforcement and removal operations division of ICE told the Globe that Plymouth Superior Court officials “refused to honor” its detainer.
The Plymouth County DA’s Office did not return The Post’s request for a comment.
ICE sources, meanwhile, are fuming about the migrant’s release.
One source blasted it as “standard Democratic bulls–t” which makes it “almost impossible to do our jobs.”
“The dumba– judges are the ones causing a lot of these issues by ignoring the root of the problem,” the source lamented.
Alvarez was staying at the Comfort Inn in Rockland, which was turned into a migrant shelter. Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK
“California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and other blue states all do this bulls–t. If we run records checks on people out of those states, they have policies that are in place to prevent sharing of any information.”
Former ICE field office director John Fabbricatore said Alvarez’s release is emblematic of “a concerning trend of inadequate and failed vetting procedures.”
“This rushed process undermines the thorough checks typically conducted before granting parole or visas. The current administration’s haphazard approach raises significant safety concerns for US citizens,” Fabbricatore told The Post.
“In particular, this recent case involving an accusation of rape by a Haitian national admitted under the Biden parole program highlights the ongoing issue. Additionally, sanctuary city policies continue to provide protection to foreign-born criminals rather than safeguarding law-abiding, tax-paying citizens.”
Alvarez had no known criminal history when he entered the US at JFK Airport in June 2023 under President Biden’s controversial parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV).
Alvarez was reportedly released on $500 bail this week. Boston Globe via Getty Images
Following Alvarez’s arrest in March, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) spearheaded an inquiry into the CHNV program.
Alvarez’s entry documents indicated he would be living with a sponsor in Elizabeth, NJ, but he eventually ended up at the Comfort Inn in Rockland, Mass., which had been converted into a migrant shelter.
He was arrested at the shelter on March 13 in connection with the rape of a disabled teenage girl.
“He raped me,” the victim told investigators at South Shore Hospital, according to the Herald. “I asked him to leave me alone but he didn’t stop.”
Alvarez pleaded not guilty to one count each of aggravated rape of a child with a 10-year age difference and rape of a child by force.
In a comment to The Globe, Alvarez’s lawyer, Brian A Kelley, said that his client was released due to “due to the inconsistencies in the evidence” and the victim’s version of events.
At a dangerousness hearing in March, Rockland police Sergeant Detective Gregory Pigeon testified that the victim pointed out Alvarez as the man who allegedly assaulted her, the Globe reported.
During an interview with police. Alvarez claimed that he was trying to fix the girl’s iPad but was not able to, so he let her call her mother with his phone.
He alleged that the girl then left his room without incident.
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