BLOOMINGTON, IN – Federal agents entered the Zietlow Justice Center in Bloomington Tuesday morning and apprehended an individual under a federal warrant.
Federal agents apprehended 36-year-old Martin Cortez-Lopez.
Cortez-Lopez had previously been deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2011 following convictions in Florida that included resisting a police officer with violence, possession of a controlled substance, and disorderly public intoxication.
According to authorities, fingerprints taken and entered into a national database alerted ICE officials to his re-entry into the United States. The United States District Court issued the federal warrant used for Tuesday’s arrest for the Southern District of Indiana.
Since his return to the U.S., Cortez-Lopez had been arrested twice in Monroe County in the past year. In February, he was arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated and possessing cocaine, and again in June for driving while intoxicated, endangering a person, and possession of cocaine.
He was taken into custody after a court hearing on Tuesday, where he was scheduled to enter a guilty plea under the terms of an agreement between the prosecutor and his public defender.
All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
