By Jim Clark

On Wednesday of last week, Somerville Police officers in charge for the day shift at the Somerville Police Department received a call from a member of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, alerting them that one of their detainees who had been arrested the previous night was wanted by them.

The officers informed the caller that they do not hold detainees for ICE and that he was being transported to the Somerville District Court to be arraigned on his pending charges for which he was arrested.

However, the name the ICE representative provided did not match anyone they had in custody. At the time, they had someone in custody whose fingerprint result revealed that his true name may be Felix G. Almandarez, not the name he provided when arrested.

It seemed that Almandarez was dishonest at booking for the purpose of concealing the fact that he had a removal order from ICE.

The records also indicate that Almandez had been previously detained by ICE, leading police to believe that he was aware of the removal order.

The officers then asked the court that Almandez also be charged with furnishing false ID info to law enforcement, along with the warrant charges of no inspection sticker and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.