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ICE slams Long Island judge who let once-deported illegal immigrant walk out of court after 4th DWI conviction

Nypost · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 549 words · By Josh Christenson; Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
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ICE slams Long Island judge who let once-deported illegal immigrant walk out of court after 4th DWI conviction See more of our coverage in your search results.

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What happened

ICE slams Long Island judge who let once-deported illegal immigrant walk out of court after 4th DWI conviction See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google Federal immigration officials tore into a Suffolk County judge for allowing a once-deported illegal immigrant to remain free after his fourth felony drunk driving conviction.

Common ground

A rep for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Post Judge Bryan Browns blew it when he ignored prosecutors and allowed Salvadoran national Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez, 36, to walk away without bail Friday.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Guilt by Association: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/08/12/us-news/ice-slams-long-island-judge-who-let-once-d…

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Loaded Language 95% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Judge Bryan Browns blew it when he ignored prosecutors and allowed Salvadoran national Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez, 36, to walk away without bail Friday.”
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Web search results identify the defendant as Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez, a 36-year-old Salvadoran national, and the judge as Bryan Browns, who ordered his release without bail.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — For failed assassination attempts, see List of people who survived assassination attempts. This is a list of successful assassinations, sorted by location. An assassination is defined as the deliberat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician who has served as the 43rd president of El Salvador since 2019. In 1999, Bukele established an advertising company and worked …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayib_Bukele
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web search NEUTRAL — Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez. Federal immigration officials have criticised a Suffolk County judge after a Salvadoran national, who was previously deported from the US, was released without bail following hi…
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/ice-slams-new-y…
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Claim 2: “The judge previously worked with the Suffolk County Branch of the nonprofit Legal Aid Society, which provides legal help to people from underprivileged backgrounds.”
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Claim 3: “Prosecutors said Aguilar-Alvarez also had a misdemeanor DUI in 2012.”
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Both a cross-reference (Nypost) and a web search result confirm the existence of a misdemeanor DUI from 2012 in addition to the later felony convictions.
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 12, 2026 · A Suffolk County jury convicted Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez, 36, a Salvadoran national, of two felony DWI counts on August 7, 2026, but Acting Supreme Court Justice Bryan Browns ordered him r…
https://longislandtraffic.com/accidents/2026/08/12/defendant…
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 11, 2026 · As reported by Long Island Life & Politics, this conviction marked Aguilar-Alvarez’s fifth DWI within the past 10 years, with four of those convictions — including this one — being felo…
https://longislandtraffic.com/accidents/2026/08/10/previousl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 11, 2026 · A Flanders man convicted of his fourth felony DWI was released without bail by a Suffolk County judge, sparking criticism from the district attorney.
https://hoodline.com/2026/08/suffolk-judge-frees-man-with-fo…
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Claim 4: “Southampton cops pulled him over after he was spotted blowing through a stop sign and driving across the double yellow line on the road, and hit him with his fourth drunk driving charge in 10 years.”
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Multiple sources confirm the defendant was charged with his fourth felony DWI after a traffic stop in Southampton involving running a stop sign and crossing double-yellow lines.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Javier Hernández Balcázar (Spanish: [xaˈβjeɾ eɾˈnandes βalˈkasaɾ] ; born 1 June 1988), commonly known by the nickname Chicharito ([tʃitʃaˈɾito], Mexican Spanish: little pea), is a Mexican professional…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Hernández
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Claim 5: “He was arrested again in November after his panicked gal pal called cops from a Southampton gas station where he pulled over to pick up more booze, Suffolk County prosecutors said Monday.”
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The arrest in November is mentioned in the context of the case, but the specific detail about the 'panicked gal pal' calling from a Southampton gas station is not corroborated by a second independent source in the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — The man, Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez, 36, was deported to his native El Salvador on March 1, 2024, after arrests for DWI in 2012, twice in 2017 and again in 2022, according to the Suffolk County district at…
https://www.27east.com/southampton-press/police-fire/police-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez was awaiting sentencing on his latest DWI conviction when he was pulled over for driving illegally.The driver, Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez, 36, a Salvadoran national, was pulled over i…
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/pablo-aguilar-alva…
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web search NEUTRAL — John Salvi, who prior to his arrest was distributing pamphlets from Human Life...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/aron/sa…
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Claim 6: “Federal immigration officials tore into a Suffolk County judge for allowing a once-deported illegal immigrant to remain free after his fourth felony drunk driving conviction.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that federal immigration officials (ICE) criticized a Suffolk County judge for releasing a previously deported Salvadoran national after his fourth felony DWI conviction.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nassau County ( NASS-aw) is a densely populated and affluent suburban county located on Long Island, immediately to the east of New York City, bordering the Long Island Sound on the north and the open…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau_County,_New_York
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert K. Futterman (born 1958 in Long Island, New York) was the founder, chairman & chief executive officer of Robert K. Futterman & Associates, a retail leasing, investment sales and consulting serv…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — James H. Donovan (November 12, 1923 – August 31, 1990) was an American businessman and politician from New York.
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Claim 7: “Aguilar-Alvarez, whose string of felony drunk driving convictions date to 2017, was deported in March 2024 after his third felony DWI conviction for a June 2022 arrest, prosecutors said.”
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Two independent sources confirm that Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez was deported in March 2024 following a third felony DWI conviction stemming from a June 2022 arrest.
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web search NEUTRAL — Aguilar-Alvarez, whose string of felony drunk driving convictions date to 2017, was deported in March 2024 after his third felony DWI conviction for a June 2022 arrest, prosecutors said.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/12/us-news/ice-slams-long-island-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The man, Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez, 36, was deported to his native El Salvador on March 1, 2024, after arrests for DWI in 2012, twice in 2017 and again in 2022, according to the Suffolk County district at…
https://www.27east.com/southampton-press/police-fire/police-…
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Claim 8: “He’s considered a flight risk as he’s due back in court for sentencing in two months, when he faces up to seven years in prison.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (/ ˈɛskəbɑːr /; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo eskoˈβaɾ]; 1 December 1949 – 2 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician who was the founder and leader of …
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Claim 9: “Browns has overseen DUIs before, including a 2022 case involving a Polish national who fled the country after being indicted for a fatal drunken crash.”
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Claim 10: “ICE said Tuesday that the immigrant also “has an extensive criminal history, including previous charges and convictions for DUI, drug possession, and weapons possession.””
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The claim regarding ICE stating he has convictions for drug and weapons possession is presented in the original narrative, but the provided evidence results for this specific claim do not contain a second independent source confirming the drug/weapons charges.
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web search NEUTRAL — Pandolfi had three previous DUI convictions, and one pending DUI involving drugs, when she got behind the wheel of her white Jeep SUV on Aug. 11, 2020 and jumped the curb onto an Anaheim sidewalk.
https://www.foxla.com/news/pandolfi-yesenia-aguilar-dui-driv…
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web search NEUTRAL — The driver, Pablo Aguilar-Alvarez, 36, a Salvadoran national, was pulled over in Riverhead by the investigators and had been driving despite being released on Aug. 7 on the condition he didn't drive, …
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/pablo-aguilar-alva…
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web search NEUTRAL — An Orange County woman with three previous convictions for driving under the influence has pleaded guilty to murder in the death of a pregnant woman whom she struck with her vehicle in 2020.
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Claim 11: “Browns ordered the con — who also had previous DUIs — held without bail after he was apprehended and extradited to the US.”
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Claim 12: “A Suffolk County jury found Aguilar-Alvarez guilty of felony DWI on Friday, with prosecutors asking the judge to hold him without bail until his Oct. 2 sentencing — but Browns let him free until then.”
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Multiple sources confirm that a jury found Aguilar-Alvarez guilty of felony DWI and that Judge Bryan Browns released him without bail until his sentencing on October 2.
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Claim 13: “They said an immigration detainer was also lodged after the Nov. 29 Southampton arrest.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the lodging of an immigration detainer on November 29.
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Claim 14: “The firm represented Aguilar-Alvarez in the latest case, according to Suffolk DA Ray Tierney.”
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