Local Authorities Released An Illegal Immigrant Training To Be Cop. He Was Just Accused Of Rape.

Local authorities in Pennsylvania released an illegal immigrant charged with rape while he was training to become a corrections officer.

Ibrahim George Kallon, who hails from Sierra Leone, had been living in the United States illegally since 2024, when his visitor visa expired, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

ICE had lodged a detainer with the Delaware County Prison in Thornton, Pennsylvania, but he was released on bail on Feb. 5, according to the agency and court records. The court only required that he pay $1 of his $100,000 bond, which was earlier lowered from its original $250,000.

Federal immigration officers were then forced to hunt Kallon down in the community and arrest him on Feb. 11, ICE said.

“If the county won’t protect its own residents, we’ll do it for them,” ICE said in an X post Friday detailing the arrest.

Delaware County asserts on its website that it “is not, and has never been, a sanctuary county.”

“We are unsure why people believe or state that Delaware County is a sanctuary county since the County has never taken any actions or votes to declare itself a sanctuary county. In addition, we are in full compliance with all state and federal laws regarding immigration,” the county’s website reads.

Kallon faces charges of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, false imprisonment, and indecent assault, according to ICE.

In recent months, ICE has caught several illegal immigrants who were either training or had already joined law enforcement in multiple states.

ICE arrested alleged fraudster Larry Temah, 46, who hails from Cameroon and was hired by the New Orleans Police Department in June. Temah, who had a deportation order, was just one week away from graduating from the New Orleans Police Department academy when he was nabbed.

In October, ICE arrested Radule Bojovic, an illegal immigrant from Montenegro, who was working as an officer with the Hanover Police Department. He was later granted bond by an immigration judge and returned to work with the department in December.

Bojovic overstayed a tourist visa that required him to leave the country on March 31, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security previously said.

Federal authorities arrested alleged “serial immigration fraudster,” 45-year-old Morris Brown of Liberia, in January after he went AWOL from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and pretended to be an American citizen to become a Minnesota corrections officer, according to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Federal authorities labeled him as a “serial fraudster” who had “multiple violations of U.S. immigration law, including overstaying his student visa and making false claims to U.S. citizenship.”