US citizen detained by ICE now released
Published: Apr. 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM EDT
(CNN) – Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez is a free man after spending Wednesday night in a Florida jail.
Officers with the State Highway Patrol arrested the 20-year-old Wednesday after a traffic stop.
He was arrested for crossing into Florida illegally, then placed on a 48-hour hold for immigration and customs enforcement.
Lopez-Gomez, however, is an American citizen who was born in Georgia.
He was traveling to Florida to work on a construction site in Tallahassee.
A Leon County judge authenticated his birth certificate Thursday and he was released.
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