A Massachusetts jail ignored an immigration detainer and released a Dominican national charged with masked armed robbery back into the community, federal officials said Wednesday.
However, the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Office refuted those claims later Wednesday, calling them “false” and saying that a local court instead released the accused armed robber on bail.
Emerson Esteban Arias-Polanco, 27, of the Dominican Republic who is in the United States illegally, was arrested by federal officers in Boston on March 20, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement…