PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A longtime worker at two well-known Providence restaurants has been held in a Texas immigration detention facility for nearly a month following his arrest by federal agents.
Pablo Grave de la Cruz, 36, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 17 outside the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal in Cranston, according to his partner, Samuel Spadavecchia.
Spadavecchia told 12 News that Grave de la Cruz had appeared in court that morning for a civil traffic violation tied to a recent crash in Coventry, after he refused a chemical test. Shortly after the hearing, ICE agents arrested him.
According to a GoFundMe page, Grave de la Cruz was initially held for five days at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls before being transferred—without notice to his family or attorneys—to an ICE facility in Raymondville, Texas, where he remains…