FREMONT, Calif. (AP) - Federal immigration officials have asked Alameda County jail officials to notify them when they plan to release an immigrant suspected of killing a San Jose woman.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement Thursday that the agency wants to know when Esmid Pedraza is released so it can pursue possible deportation.
The request is part of a new policy that lets immigration officials decide whether to release immigrant prisoners in federal custody to local police or deport them.
KRON-TV reports (https://bit.ly/1R65Hnm ) Pedraza, who was arrested Wednesday in the shooting death of his former girlfriend Stacey Aguilar, had three prior arrests.
Aguilar was last seen leaving a party in Hayward in the early hours of Feb. 14. Her body was found nearly a week later in Fremont.
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