U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has filed an arrest detainer for Sergio Noe de Nova Duarte, a Mexican national accused of attacking a woman with a hammer while she was jogging in Bob Woodruff Park in Plano, Texas.
The Plano Police Department charged de Nova Duarte on November 13 with aggravated kidnapping and bodily injury. ICE lodged the detainer with Collin County Jail to prevent his release into the community.
According to ICE, de Nova Duarte has previous arrests from 2024 for burglary and larceny. After those arrests, he was apprehended by ICE but later released into the United States under the Biden administration, pending a court appearance before an immigration judge scheduled for 2026.
“This criminal illegal alien should have never been loose in our communities to attack this woman jogging in a park with a hammer,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Following this illegal alien’s arrest in 2024, the Biden administration released this criminal illegal alien back into our communities. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE lodged an arrest detainer to ensure this criminal illegal alien is NEVER able to prey on innocent women in our country again.”
De Nova Duarte entered the U.S. on a B2 tourist visa in 2016, which required him to leave by September 17 of that year.
