Posted by Coppers Dad on February 1, 2026, 7:43 am
ICE agents chase down migrant sex predator after judge allows him to stroll out of NYC courthouse
An alleged crack-smoking, sexual-predator migrant wanted by ICE was allowed to flee through a back door of a Manhattan courthouse — infuriating federal agents, The Post has learned.
Gerardo Miguel Mora, 45, was arrested Thursday for shoplifting and possession of stolen property after allegedly snatching $130 in items from an H&M display case in Midtown that day, court records show.
Mora, whose country of origin was not disclosed, was collared on the Upper West Side on Jan. 7 for possession of alleged crack cocaine, according to a criminal complaint. That case is pending in court.
In 2011, Mora was busted for attempted rape and strangulation after he allegedly followed a 21-year-old woman home in Midtown, choked her and tried to remove her clothes, police sources said.
He was stopped by a bystander who heard the woman’s cries and came to her aid, holding Mora down until cops arrived, the sources said.
He was presumably deported after that, and was off the radar for 12 years. But in 2023 he was back in the US and arrested for showing a false ID.
Federal authorities had been looking for Mora on a criminal arrest warrant under a section of the US code that concerns “reentry of removed aliens,” law enforcement sources said.
But on Thursday in a court hearing on desk appearance tickets, the judge let Mora waltz out of the courtroom, sources said.
The shoplifting charge itself was not bail eligible, but Judge Sheridan Jack-Browne, a Democrat who won a special election last year in Brooklyn, would have had the federal arrest warrant, two sources told The Post.
The warrant is actually put in a folder for the judge to peruse on the bench.
“Everything was sent over” to the courthouse by ICE, a federal law enforcement source said.
But instead of handing him over to waiting ICE agents, Mora was allowed to simply slip out the back door of Manhattan Criminal Court, law enforcement sources said.
“They refused to hand him over,” the irate fed said. “They let him out the back to avoid ICE.”
ICE agents realized Mora had been released, and chased him down outside, a source said.
Posted by swamp cooter on February 1, 2026, 8:55 am, in reply to "ICED Out"
That judge should be hanged on the court house steps for not doing er duty and putting the public in danger
Re: ICED Out
Posted by Coppers Dad on February 1, 2026, 9:02 am, in reply to "Re: ICED Out"
Those judges live in a bubble completely disconnected from us common folks………
US common folk liv’n in the USA
Posted by mender on February 1, 2026, 12:43 pm, in reply to "Re: ICED Out"
or just the US common folk with the six digit common income and profitable stock investments, common folk?
I wonder how many innocent Tax paying American citizens who are lacking of any criminal records must be accidentally beaten, imprisoned or shot dead, and they come for your neighbor do you raise an eyebrow and say how?
