U.S. Attorney Leah Foley also told Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden that he was wrong to criticize ICE operations after a man was detained by agents mid-trial. The post U.S. Attorney fires back on contempt charge for ICE officer appeared first on Boston.

ICE agent Brian Sullivan apprehended Wilson Martell-Lebron last week as he was leaving the courthouse. However, a Boston Municipal Court judge ruled on Monday that Sullivan had violated Martell-Lebron’s rights to due process and a fair trial by taking him into custody during the proceedings, the Associated Press reported.

A district attorney in Boston harshly criticized the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday after one of its agents detained a suspect while he was on trial. ICE agent Brian Sullivan took Wilson Martell-Lebron,

Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy scoffed at Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s threats to bring charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent for detaining an illegal immigrant outside of Boston,

Only hours after Boston’s top prosecutor criticized federal immigration officials on Wednesday as “extraordinarily reckless” for detaining a man mid-trial last week, the U.S. Department of Justice responded in a series of remarkable letters and court filings.

ICE agents jumped on the suspect without identifying themselves moments after he walked out of court, put him into a truck, and sped away.

After federal immigration agents took the unprecedented step of detaining a man in the middle of his trial in Boston court last week, a district attorney said the federal agency is a threat to Massachusetts’ public safety.

A Boston-area district attorney on Wednesday criticized ICE for the arrest of an illegal immigrant in the middle of his trial last month.

Judge holds ICE agent in contempt for detaining suspect in the middle of his trial - ‘I can't think of any greater injustice than a man who is taken away from his trial in the middle of it by the government,