A US court in Rhode Island released an undocumented immigrant, Bryan Rafael Gómez, without being told that he was wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic. The case has raised serious questions about why immigration officials did not share that information with the judge.
The release took place on 28 April 2026, when Judge Melissa R. DuBose ordered Gómez to be released from the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls. At that time, she was not aware that he had an active homicide warrant overseas. That key detail emerged later during a court hearing, when the judge questioned prosecutors about what they knew and when.
