Days after reports that a rising high school senior in L.A. was taken by federal immigration agents, an official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed to KTLA that the teen is in custody.
Social media posts and a fundraiser set up to help the family of the young man, Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz, indicate he was walking his dog on Aug. 8 – just days after his 18th birthday and right before he was due to start his senior year at Reseda High School – when masked immigration agents took him into custody.
The posts stated that Benjamin’s family – including his mother, five-month-old twin brothers and another six-year-old brother – was waiting for him to return with the dog, but he never did…