Overview
- Judge Carla Espinoza determined that 54-year-old Ramón Morales Reyes did not pose a danger and set bond at $7,500 during a Chicago immigration court hearing.
- Handwriting analysis and his limited English proficiency showed that Morales Reyes could not have written the threatening letters.
- Demetric D. Scott has been charged with identity theft, felony witness intimidation and bail jumping after admitting he forged the letters to block Morales Reyes’s testimony in a robbery trial.
- Morales Reyes, an undocumented immigrant who has lived in the U.S. since 1986, works as a dishwasher in Milwaukee and is a married father of three U.S. citizen children.
- The Department of Homeland Security says it will continue to fight for his removal and a follow-up hearing in his deportation proceedings is scheduled for July 10.