Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, is charged with concealing the death of 37-year-old Megan Bos. He was granted pretrial release in April, two days after his arrest.<\/p>\n
Though he\u2019s now in ICE custody, Lake County prosecutors want Mendoza-Gonzalez tried locally, warning that deportation could allow him to go free.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe that a criminal trial and sentencing is more appropriate than deportation proceedings,\u201d the Lake County state’s attorney’s office said in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe defendant is charged with several felonies, which can result in potential consecutive prison sentences upon a conviction,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cAs people know, deportation to another country does not lead to prison in that country. If he were to agree to deportation, he could be free in days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bos was reported last seen by family members on Feb. 17. On April 10, Mendoza-Gonzalez met with Antioch detectives and said Bos visited his house Feb. 19 but left afterward, officials said.<\/p>\n
When pressed on his statements, he admitted her body was in a garbage container in his yard on Yeoman Street, authorities said.<\/p>\n
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\n Megan Bos
\n Courtesy of Antioch police\n <\/p>\n
Mendoza-Gonzalez told police Bos used drugs then appeared to overdose in his basement, authorities said. He told investigators he was afraid of getting into trouble, so he kept her body in his basement for a few days before moving it to the container, according to police.<\/p>\n
The Lake County Coroner\u2019s Office later said an autopsy revealed no signs of struggle or trauma.<\/p>\n
Mendoza-Gonzalez faces two counts of concealing a death, abuse of a corpse and obstructing justice. He is scheduled to appear in a Lake County courtroom Aug. 11. County prosecutors said Sunday they are preparing on official request to ICE asking that he remain in the U.S. while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n
Antioch Mayor Scott Gartner said he was shocked by Mendoza-Gonzalez\u2019s release, calling it \u201camazing that something involving a death and hiding a body is a non-detainable offense.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he supports local prosecution \u201cto the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez A Waukegan man charged with hiding the body of an Antioch woman in a garbage…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[40824,960,1109,4219,5386,1818,50,54186],"class_list":{"0":"post-78959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-antioch","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-communities","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-waukegan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114887649305950657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}