The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office is facing allegations that it reportedly provided information to help immigration officials build a case to keep Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara in federal custody.
The Georgia Reporter published a report last week that says ICE officials relied on efforts by the Sheriff’s Office to bolster its case to keep Guevara behind bars. Guevara, an El Salvador native and a longtime journalist in metro Atlanta’s Hispanic community, was initially arrested by police in DeKalb County in June while he was covering an immigration protest.
ICE officials then placed a detainer on Guevara, who had been livestreaming immigration roundups in the area for months, and took him to the federal immigration detention center in Folkston…