ICE confirms suspect in stolen Maryland State Highway truck chase is in US illegally
By Tom Fitzgerald
Published February 20, 2024 5:29PM
Montgomery County
FOX 5 DChttps://www.fox5dc.com/news/ice-confir...in-us-illegally


Cesar Flavio Lanuza, the man accused of stealing a Maryland Highway Administration tow truck and leading police on a wild chase, is in the U.S. illegally, FOX 5's Tom Fitzgerald has confirmed.

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Cesar Flavio Lanuza, the man accused of stealing a Maryland Highway Administration tow truck and leading police on a wild chase, is in the U.S. illegally, FOX 5 has confirmed.

Federal officials have lodged a detainer on him.

It's been three days since that wild chase started in College Park, Maryland. You can still see the marks cut into the ground where the state highway truck finally came to a stop in Silver Spring.

The suspect who's accused of stealing the tow truck, eluding police, crashing into cruisers and cars, is also wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE's Baltimore field office director Darius Reeves confirmed with FOX 5 on Tuesday that Flavio Lanuza is from Nicaragua, and there's a detainer against him with the Montgomery County detention center.

In the past, ICE has been critical of Montgomery County for not fully cooperating with detainers. -- excerpt, rest at link above --

Sorta odd that they're admitting it.