90 Miles From Tyranny : Suspect in Union Station swastika graffiti incident is illegal immigrant with long rap sheet, report

Friday, February 4, 2022

Suspect in Union Station swastika graffiti incident is illegal immigrant with long rap sheet, report



Despite having been deported on two separate occasions, ICE is not currently moving to place Geraldo Pando in federal custody.

The man charged in connection with the recent defacing of the exterior of Union Station, in Washington, D.C., with swastika graffiti is reportedly an illegal immigrant from Mexico with a decade-and-a-half-long criminal history.

The person arrested and charged last week in connection with the incident has been identified by police as 34-year-old Geraldo Pando, whom authorities said at the time was perhaps homeless and suffering from mental-health issues.

The Washington Examiner reported Wednesday that Pando has a 35-page criminal history from his time in Colorado, where he apparently lived before coming to the District of Columbia.

He was deported twice before but does not currently meet the standards of the Biden administration for deportation, the Examiner also reports.

Pando was arrested Friday in connection with defacing the historic train station with Nazi symbols one day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Law enforcement officers are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.

Following his arrest for vandalizing the Capitol Hill area station, Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not attempt to take him into custody. He is not, for the moment, facing deportation, despite also reportedly being recently for vandalizing...




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