Final Newark ICE Escapee Captured in Los Angeles

Andres Felipe Pineda-Mogollon, a 25-year-old Colombian national and the last of four detainees who escaped from the privately run Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, was captured in Los Angeles after a nationwide manhunt. The escape occurred on June 12 amid unrest reportedly sparked by detainees' complaints about facility conditions. The men broke through a second-story wall, used mattresses to cushion their fall, and bedsheets to scale barbed wire fences. Pineda-Mogollon and the other escapees—Franklin Norberto Bautista Reyes, Joel Enrique Sandoval Lopez, and Joan Sebastian Castaneda Lozada—were previously arrested on charges ranging from aggravated assault to burglary and theft, and had all entered the U.S. unlawfully. Federal authorities praised ICE agents for recapturing all four men and highlighted the dangers posed by such detainees. The incident has intensified concerns about security and conditions at immigration detention centers.