Immigrant who Helped Solve NJ Murder Now Facing Deportation
Police informant Charbel Chehoud says feds ignored requests by NJ law enforcement agents to allow him to stay
Despite helping law enforcement agents solve crimes that included a high-profile murder case, NJ police informant Charbel Chehoud faces deportation from the U.S. as early as Wednesday. Currently being held at the Essex County Jail, Chaoud says federal immigration authorities ignored recommendations by New Jersey police and prosecutors that he be allowed to stay in the United States. Chaoud, who fears for his life if forced to return to Lebanon, has resisted five previous attempts at deportation. In July 2011 his brother was killed in a suspicious auto-pedestrian accident in Beirut. Leading the last-ditch effort to help him remain on U.S. soil is Chehoud’s fiancée, Veronica Garcia of Jersey City, who launched a campaign on Change.org that…
julissa estrada
2:21 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012
well i happen to know his girlfriend and she is a very nice person. more ›