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Suspected Venezuelan gang member still jailed in Crawford County
When Donald Trump campaigned in Prairie du Chien last fall, he made a reference to a suspected Venezuelan gang member jailed in Crawford County on sexual assault charges in Prairie du Chien.
Hundreds of Venezuelans in the U.S. have been deported in the last week, under orders from the White House.
That group does not include the crime suspect jailed in Crawford County, Alejandro Coronel Zarate, although Prairie du Chien Police Chief Kyle Teynor said last fall that is suspected of belonging to the same gang as many people being deported, Tren de Aragua.
After his arrest Teynor said that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement was notified, and a detainer placed on him.
Coronel Zarate appeared in court last week in Crawford County Circuit Court.
The Crawford County District Attorney’s office says he is still in jail and is scheduled for another court hearing in May.
Online court records show Coronel Zarate is scheduled to go on trial next month in Dane County on strangulation, battery, false imprisonment, and disorderly conduct charges.
Concerned citizen
March 18, 2025 at 10:39 am
We don’t know if the folks deported to El Salvador were part of gang, since they never got their day in court…. we don’t know if their even Venezuelan.
Congress never declared war so I am not sure how the white house can use a wartime act, and I am concerned we just lost the right to Due Process and Habeus corpus.
I mean what if Kamala is elected president in 4 years do you really want to give her the power to deport every white person to Poland without a court hearing?