WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Immigration officials say a Dallas woman accused of killing a mother and abducting her baby was living in the country illegally when she was released from a Kansas jail this summer before federal authorities could request she be detained in connection with a previous kidnapping incident.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday it did not receive the July 25 arrest list from the sheriff’s office showing Yesenia Sesmas’ name until the following day. By then the Mexican national had been released. The agency says it would have asked she be held if it had been advised in time.
The sheriff’s office says Sesmas was released on bond within 24 hours.
She is in a Dallas jail accused of killing a Wichita woman last week and abducting her baby.
