Overview

• Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez in Chicago on July 19 and he remains in federal custody
• Mendoza-Gonzalez was originally released under Illinois’ SAFE-T Act in April despite facing charges of concealing and abusing the corpse of 37-year-old Megan Bos
• The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office is preparing a formal request to have him detained locally so he can be tried on state felony charges rather than deported
• The Lake County Coroner’s Office has upheld its finding that Bos’s autopsy showed no signs of trauma or decapitation, contradicting earlier national reports
• The case underscores tensions between state bail-reform measures and federal immigration enforcement over pretrial detention authority