Once-deported illegal migrant Dimas Gabriel Yanez stabs 14-year-old girl at her brother’s baseball game
A migrant who illegally entered the country and had been previously deported has been arrested for stabbing a 14-year-old Illinois girl at her brother’s baseball game.
On Saturday at around 3:45pm local time, the teenage girl was with her mother watching her brother play at a field in unincorporated Lowell, about 100 miles west of Chicago.
Dimas Gabriel Yanez, 26, allegedly stabbed the girl in the hand and tried to stab her mother, both of whom have yet to be identified, with a ‘butcher-style knife’.
Yanez, who authorities said was deported to Honduras in 2018 before returning to America illegally, was chased off into the woods near the field, after which police found the knife.
What police described as an ‘extensive’ manhunt took place, with several law enforcement agencies, K9 and aviation units searching for Yanez.
Dimas Gabriel Yanez, a 26-year-old migrant who illegally entered the country and had been previously deported, has been arrested for stabbing a 14-year-old Illinois girl at her brother’s baseball gam
Local sheriffs say that Yanez had cut his hair to try and throw people who were trying to find him off before he was arrested.
He was eventually located in a cornfield on Sunday afternoon. Police took him into custody after pursuing him on foot.
Those investigating belief Yanez may have committed other crimes since he returned to the United States.
Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. said in a statement that the Department of Homeland Security has been informed of Yanez’s arrest.
‘I would like to extend my most heartfelt gratitude to each and every Lake County police officer and to all law enforcement agencies working tirelessly on the investigation and search in this case’, Martinez said.
‘I am proud of the level of cooperation exhibited by police officers throughout the county. I would also like to thank the public for sharing information in a responsible manner and for assisting us with good tips the officers could use’, he added.
The 14-year-old victim was treated for her injuries at a local hospital before being released.
Martinez adds that the investigation is still ongoing.
Local sheriffs say that Yanez had cut his hair to try and throw people trying to find him off before he was arrested
On Saturday at around 3:45pm local time, the teenage girl was with her mother watching her brother play at a field in unincorporated Lowell, about 100 miles west of Chicago
Illinois and the Chicagoland area have been one of the major hubs for America’s migrant crisis.
Chicago‘s Mayor Brandon Johnson was ranked as America’s ‘worst sanctuary mayor’ by a migration watchdog in August.
The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) says Johnson lavished hundreds of millions of dollars on migrants while his own voters languish in poverty.
Republicans blame the Biden administration for letting asylum seekers pour in from Mexico, but IRLI’s director Dale Wilcox says progressive mayors must shoulder some of the blame.
The open-arms approach of Johnson, Adams, and other mayors is one of the ‘biggest magnets drawing illegal aliens into this country,’ says Wilcox.
‘While they claim to be more compassionate than their critics, the policies of these mayors are actually causing unacceptable levels of overcrowding, criminal activity and death in their communities,’ he adds.
Studies have shown immigrants, including those in the US illegally, do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.
Johnson won a surprise election victory last year as the insurgent progressive who pushed out incumbent Lori Lightfoot.
Yanez, who authorities said was deported to Honduras in 2018 before returning to America illegally, was chased off into the woods near the field, after which police found the knife
But he’s floundered since taking over City Hall, with his plans to raise taxes and combat homelessness thwarted.
He’s struggled against flows of asylum seekers, who have swamped shelters and bedded down in police stations and at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
In April, he asked the city council to stump an extra $70 million to house the tens of thousands of newcomers.
But his new migrant shelters quickly came under fire from residents.
They said the arrivals were getting a better deal than hard-up locals, who faced evictions and sleeping on the streets.
Despite high hopes at his inauguration, Johnson’s popularity has tanked.
In an April poll, just 9 percent of Chicagoans rated him as doing an ‘above average’ job.