The Philadelphia field office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Center City. Read more Tom Gralish / Staff Photographer

by Chris Palmer Published Aug. 10, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET

Gonzalo Hernandez Roque was arrested in Doylestown last May, accused of stealing about $500 worth of clothes and jewelry from Kohl’s. For the next 10 months, he remained free on unsecured bail as his misdemeanor case slowly worked its way through Bucks County’s courts.

But this spring, the consequences of the arrest suddenly escalated.

In March, court documents show, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent found records from the case that helped show that Hernandez Roque, a 29-year-old Guatemalan, had been living in the country illegally. He was jailed and charged with a federal immigr

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