Overview

• On June 5 ICE agents detained 19-year-old University of Utah student Caroline Dias Goncalves shortly after a Mesa County deputy let her go from a traffic stop near Loma, Colorado.
• A Mesa County administrative probe found deputy Alexander Zwinck shared stop details in a multiagency Signal group intended to target drug trafficking.
• Details from the encrypted chat were routed to ICE, leading to Dias Goncalves’s arrest and transfer to the Denver Contract Detention Facility.
• Her attorney secured her bond and release on June 18 after highlighting she had no criminal record and was arrested without being shown a warrant.
• The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office has since removed all its members from the interdiction Signal chat following the findings of its internal investigation.