Government says ICE ran "query checks to positively identify" Almonte before his arrest warrant
U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New YorkGovernment counsel for the respondents, in a June 17, 2026 filing quoted in the court's October 5 order
Government lawyers told the court that ICE ran query checks that positively identified Almonte, determined he lacked lawful status, and issued an administrative arrest warrant at about 5:50 p.m.
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ICE positively identified Angel Almonte through database query checks before issuing his arrest warrant.
“ICE conducted query checks to positively identify the Petitioner, determined that he was not present in the United States with lawful status, and issued a Form I-200, Warrant for Arrest of Alien (the “Arrest Warrant”) at approximately 5:50 p.m.”
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Did ICE agents falsify records and testimony in the Bronx arrests of Angel Almonte and Jeury Concepcion?
On May 6, 2026, ICE agents arrested Angel Almonte, a Dominican immigrant, and Jeury Concepcion, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, in separate arrests in the Bronx. DHS said Concepcion was not arrested by ICE and that it does not arrest citizens by mistake, and government lawyers told a federal court that ICE positively identified Almonte through database checks before issuing his arrest warrant. On October 5, U.S. District Judge Gary R. Brown ruled that the misidentification claims were baseless, that ICE issued an after-the-fact warrant containing false information, and that the officers gave false and misleading testimony. The question is whether ICE agents falsified records and testimony to justify the arrests.
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Federal court ruling on Angel Almonte's habeas petition, issued after a June 26, 2026 factual hearing at which the arresting ICE officers testified. Obtained from the CourtListener RECAP archive.
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Federal court docket for Angel Almonte's habeas petition, as mirrored by CourtListener, including the order to show cause, the June 25 order keeping the factual hearing and the June 26 release order.
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Almonte petitioned for release on June 17, 2026, and the court ordered the government to show cause why he should remain detained.
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The October 5 order says that all of these assertions would prove to be false and that database searches run before the warrant was issued came back negative.
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Why this label?
The reference point is whether ICE agents falsified records and testimony to justify the arrests of Almonte and Concepcion. The government's filing says ICE "conducted query checks to positively identify the Petitioner" before issuing the warrant. That defends the arrest as properly grounded, so we labeled it Defended or excused. The closest competing label is Challenged characterization, which would fit a dispute over how the arrest was described alone; the filing asserts the arrest's basis.
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