GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A metro Atlanta journalist arrested and taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody during a protest last month has been released from one metro Atlanta jail and booked into another.
The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office says Mario Guevara was booked into its jail on Wednesday afternoon on misdemeanor traffic charges and subsequently released.
Jail records obtained by Channel 2 Action News show that Guevara was in the Gwinnett County Jail for just over an hour and was given a $3,900 bond.
Floyd County jail records show that the 47-year-old is now being held without bond there. He is listed as a “boarder for ICE.”
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Guevara, a native of El Salvador, was arrested while live-streaming a protest in DeKalb County last month.
He was eventually transferred to an ICE detention facility in south Georgia before being granted bond by an immigration judge earlier this week.
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The initial charges in DeKalb County that landed Guevara in jail were eventually dropped.
Guevara fled El Salvador in 2004 because of his work as a political reporter. He previously worked for Mundo Hispanico, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in Georgia, before starting his own news site, MG News.
His attorney, Giovanni Diaz, has said Guevara is not a legal permanent resident but has authorization to remain and work in the United States.
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