The former Prince George’s County officer who interviewed Kilmar Abrego Garcia and helped label him as a gang member that eventually resulted with his mistaken deportation, later pleaded guilty to misconduct and was pushed out of the Police Department, records show.

The officer, Ivan Mendez, engaged in criminal misconduct for helping an undocumented sex worker with whom he had a sexual relationship from getting in trouble, according to court records. That episode ended with Mendez’s guilty plea in 2022 and put him on a “do not call” list for officers so mistrusted by prosecutors that he would not be called again as witnesses in court.

The story continues at The Baltimore Banner:
Detective who helped label Kilmar Abrego Garcia a gang member had trouble of his own

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