A woman accused of killing two teenagers while driving drunk is back in the Dane County Jail after briefly being held in an immigration detention facility.
Noelia Martinez-Avila was charged with multiple felony counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle after she was involved in a crash on July 20, which resulted in the deaths of two Minnesota teens.
Martinez-Avila became the center of a custody battle between the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which said she is from Honduras and in the U.S. illegally. On July 22, Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett denied an ICE detainer request, which prompted ICE Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin to accuse Dane County of being a “sanctuary jurisdiction.”
At the time, a statement from Barrett said deporting someone before they face trial “allows them to evade accountability — it’s essentially a ‘get out of jail free’ card.”…