Continuing story of a Rapist

Federal agency, Providence police at odds over immigration checks

07:31 AM EDT on Saturday, June 21, 2008

By W. Zachary Malinowski

Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE — A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that the Providence Police Department dropped the ball last year when it twice arrested a man, now suspected of rape, for other crimes and failed to check on his status as an illegal immigrant who had been ordered deported.

The Providence police counter that they passed the information about the arrests of Marco Riz, 26, of Providence, to the local ICE office, but the federal agency didn’t bother taking any action to have him sent back to Guatemala.

“This is an attempt to find blame,â€