Bellevue man faces deportation

By :TERRY SMITH

A 23-year-old Bellevue man faces possible deportation after being arrested and convicted last week for criminal trespass.

Daniel Granados-Elizarraraz was turned over to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers following his guilty plea and sentencing on Thursday, July 12, in Blaine County Magistrate Court. The suspect was arrested the previous evening by the Bellevue Marshal's Office following a neighborhood dispute on north Seventh Street.

A marshal's office report alleges that Granados-Elizarraraz may have brandished a shotgun and a pistol during the altercation, but evidence was inconclusive and he was not charged with a weapon's crime.

At arraignment on Thursday, Granados-Elizarraraz pleaded guilty to the criminal trespass charge. Magistrate Judge Mark Ingram sentenced him to 30 days in jail, but suspended 29 days of the sentence and gave the defendant credit for one day already spent behind bars. Granados-Elizarraraz was also placed on six months supervised probation, which Ingram ordered him to serve if he ever returns to Idaho.

Court records state that an "immigration hold" was in effect on the defendant. The term is used when a defendant is suspected of being an illegal alien.

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