24-year-old Moises Raymundo Bernal is facing deportation after a Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Judge's bond order placed him back in ICE custody. 

NEW PHILADELPHIA (Tusco TV) - The former Dover man accused of causing a crash that seriously injured a Dennison couple is now awaiting deportation after a judge's bond decision put him back in federal custody.

24-year-old Moises Raymundo Bernal appeared in Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Wednesday for arraignment on counts OVI and aggravated vehicular for the June 22nd crash on US 250. Assistant County Prosecutor Scott Deedrick says Bernal was already under a federal deportation order, so the judge’s decision to continue his personal recognizance bond means immigration officials will now move forward with those proceedings.  

“It was clear that Mr. Bernal was not going to be released so he would therefore not be a danger to the community so Judge O’Farrell granted him a release in this case, which has the effect of the federal ICE holder kicks back in. He will be returned to our jail, go back to Geauga County, and then my understanding is will be deported from the United States,” he says.  

Deedrick says Bernal has been in federal custody since he was intercepted by immigration agents after his preliminary hearing for being in the country illegally.

"They placed a holder on him so that he could not be released. They came down to our jail, took him up to Cleveland for proceedings in federal court regarding his immigration status. While I’m not privy to what I occurred there, it’s clear they ordered him to be deported from the United States to his country of native origins, which I recall to be Guatemala," he says.

Deedrick says the charges against Bernal are being dismissed for now, but he says could reopen the case if he comes back to the country.

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