Overview
- Homeland Security publicly pressed Dane County officials to honor an ICE detainer for Julio Morales-Jarquin, who is jailed in Fitchburg on two counts of sexual assault of an elderly victim.
- ICE said it filed the detainer on April 27 requesting that local authorities hold him for transfer to federal custody.
- Police and local reports describe a staff member finding a dementia patient naked with the suspect and say he admitted to inappropriate touching, with other residents alleging coerced sex or unwanted contact.
- Authorities filed the two felony charges on April 29, and DHS says he entered the country in 2023 through a humanitarian parole program that ended in April 2025.
- DHS criticized county practices that give ICE limited release notice and seek a judge’s order to hold inmates for pickup, a clash that could influence how local jails handle federal custody requests in future cases.