Man arrested for recording in church bathroom detained by ICE
BREESE, Ill. – The Clinton County Sheriff’s Office says the man who was arrested after two video recording devices were discovered inside a church’s portable bathroom facility has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
According to Clinton County Sheriff Dan Travous, the Clinton County Dispatch was alerted by St. Rose officials about the recording devices at the St. Rose Church Picnic in Breese, Illinois, on Aug. 9.
Travous said that the footage recovered within the devices was not transferred nor seen by anyone else beside detectives. Travous also noted that the videos were recorded in the dark and the victims were unidentifiable.
Marco Monreal-Rojas, 23, was taken into custody on Aug. 11 and he was charged with three felony counts for unauthorized videotaping.
However, because of Illinois' SAFE-T Act, which prohibits prosecutors from seeking a detention order for those types of charges, Monreal-Rojas was released.
The Illinois court instead ordered the 23-year-old to wear an electronic monitoring device.
But shortly after his release, ICE agents took the 23-year-old into custody. Agents didn't share details with FOX 2 about the reason why Monreal-Rojas was detained.
