U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a detainee order for Leandro Miranda, 23, of Oak Bluffs, which requires local authorities to hold him in custody for 48 hours once charges in Edgartown District Court are adjudicated. ICE officials will then decide whether to take custody of Mr. Miranda and begin removal proceedings.
According to the detainee order issued August 28, ICE has “determined that there is reason to believe the individual is an alien subject to removal from the United States.”
Mr. Miranda, a Brazilian national, was back in Edgartown District Court for a pretrial hearing on Sept. 4. He has been held without bail at the Dukes County Jail since August 10, when he was arrested for the fifth time in the past five months. Two of those arrests involved charges of driving drunk and fleeing police at high rates of speed.
The court ordered Mr. Miranda returned to jail following the hearing, after finding probable cause that he violated the conditions of probation issued in one of his string of arrests on a long list of motor vehicle violations.
Also appearing in court Sept. 4 was Rogerio J. Almeida, 48, of East Boston, who was also listed in a previous police report as living in Edgartown. According to police reports, Mr. Almeida allowed Mr. Miranda to drive his 2005 Chrysler 300 despite Mr. Miranda’s various arrests and license suspensions. The charge against Mr. Almeda was dismissed after he paid $400 in court costs.