CHICAGO, IL- Blue city and state sanctuary policies are in the limelight again this week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) picked up an illegal alien this week who was released from jail in April after he was accused of a horrific crime where he decapitated a woman and hid her body in a storage container full of bleach, The Liberty Daily reports.
Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, a Mexican national, was arrested in April and charged with concealing a corpse, abusing a corpse, and obstruction of justice, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Immediately after his arraignment hearing, Mendoza-Gonzalez was freed by Lake County Judge Randie Bruno, yet another case of sanctuary policies releasing violent criminals in blue states and embraced by presidential wanna-be’s like Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker.
On Saturday, Mendoza-Gonzalez was picked up by ICE at a Chicago market and is now in federal custody, where some say he should have been all along.
On March 9, 2025, Megan Bos, 37, was reported missing.
In April, police discovered her body in a container in Mendoza-Gonzales’s yard.
Her family said she disappeared last February.
According to police, the suspect is accused of stashing Bos’s body in his yard for nearly two months and mistreating her corpse “in a truly gruesome way.”
DHS officials told Fox News Digital that her body had been decapitated and placed in a storage container filled with bleach.
“It is absolutely repulsive [that] this monster walked free on Illinois’ streets after allegedly committing such a heinous crime,” a DHS spokesman told Fox News Digital.
“Megan Bos and her family will have justice.”
After his release from custody, Antioch Mayor Scott Gartner, a Republican, sharply criticized the sanctuary laws that allowed Mendoza-Gonzalez to be back out on the streets, as reported by Fox 32 Chicago.
“I was shocked to find out literally the next day that the person that they had arrested for this had been released from prison under the SAFE-T Act, less than, detained less, I think, than 48 hours,” Gartner, a practicing attorney of 25 years, said.
“There’s other extenuating circumstances in this case. Not only the type of crime, how long the crime was concealed, the fact that the person that was arrested for this is not a U.S. citizen, and you know, can maybe flight from the country,” Gartner continued.
Gartner wasn’t the only lawmaker speaking out against Mendoza-Gonzalez’s release.
Someone that hid their body in a garbage can for 51 days. After leaving it in the basement for two days, after not calling 911, breaking a phone. Is this a non-detainable offense? Should we not find out, wait for a toxicology report, anything?” said State Rep. Tom Weber, a Republican.
The SAFE-T Act, signed into law by Pritzker in 2021, eliminated cash bail.
Since its implementation, it has been widely panned by critics, with some calling it an “abject failure,” including McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kennealy, WTVO reports.
He cited data showing an increase in crime and incarceration, with an accompanying reduction in restitution to crime victims and more offenders failing to show up in court.
“A policy that proceeded from the ideology of a privileged group of advocates who dictate criminal justice legislation in Illinois, overcoming common sense,” he said in a press release.
Kenneally said since SAFE-T Act’s pretrial release conditions were implemented, his county has seen a 30% increase in crime by offenders on prettiral released, compared to those on cash bail; an increase in the jail population; a 280% increase in defendants failing to appear for their appointed court date; and a 35% reduction in restitution paid to crime victims.
“The problem with the SAFE-T Act, written by public defenders and advocates for criminals, is that it denies county judges, elected by the communities affected by the alleged crimes, the discretion to detain defendants charged with most crimes, no matter how high-risk,” Kenneally said.
Meanwhile, monsters like Mendoza-Gonzalez are released back out onto the streets in states like Illinois, California, and New York despite being subject to ICE detainers to deport them back to their home countries.
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