A Lengthy Island postal employee helped an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detainee quickly escape custody outdoors and tore into brokers in two languages, based on a prison grievance unsealed Thursday.
Tamara Mayorga-Wong, 57, allegedly opened the door of an official automobile in entrance of the Westhampton Publish Workplace and informed a handcuffed detainee within the backseat to run for it earlier than making an attempt to drive away in her personal automotive, courtroom paperwork stated.
Cops caught up with the unidentified detainee and arrested Mayorga-Wong after she fled via the constructing, acquired into her automotive in a again car parking zone, locked herself and tried to drive away, the data stated.
Brokers then repeatedly informed her to get out of the automobile earlier than she was forcibly eliminated, courtroom data claimed.
“Why are you doing this to your folks?” she yelled repeatedly to brokers in Spanish and English after she was taken into custody, kicking at officers and “flailing her arms,” based on the paperwork.
She then requested whether or not the brokers have been from Mexico and whether or not they had kids, based on the grievance in opposition to her.
“What are you going to inform your kids about what you do?” she railed, the paperwork stated.
Mayorga-Wong had allegedly seen brokers in “HSI Police” jackets seize a person outdoors the put up workplace and demanded to see a warrant saying “you possibly can’t do that,” based on courtroom paperwork.
Brokers allegedly informed her she may see the warrant on the native workplace and was offered an tackle earlier than she helped the detainee quickly escape, the courtroom paperwork stated.
Mayorga-Wong is now dealing with fees of federal obstruction, which might carry as much as 20 years in federal jail relying on the statute prosecutors apply.
It’s unclear if Mayorga-Wong knew the detainee. Particulars of the detainee’s arrest or the place he was being held weren’t instantly recognized.
At her arraignment in Suffolk County federal courtroom on Thursday, Mayorga-Wong appeared shackled on the ankles, scanning the gallery for her household as she cried quietly earlier than the choose took the bench.
She was launched the identical day from Suffolk jail after posting a $50,000 bond.
Attorneys for each events declined to remark outdoors of courtroom.
