A Baltimore paper got access to the name of the informant in the case where the cop, Ivan Mendez and the highly credible informant both insisted Abrego Garcia was MS13. This was after he was arrested looking for day labor outside of Home Depot.
The paper won't name the woman for her protection but she was not only a hooker, she was an undocumented immigrant. Part of why she was an informant was to keep from getting deported.
But wait there's more, as mentioned the informant Mendez was paying for sex was her, that we knew, but they also found out that Mendez was found to have been providing information to an informant to protect them from being arrested by his own department. Guess which informant? Yep the hooker he was paying for sex.
So what?
In 2022 the case against him had gone from suspension to indictment to going through the process of kicking him off the force. HE had a "do not contact" label on him from the Prosecutors office that literally said do NOT use this cop as a witness in any case because he's so dirty he's probably going to get dozens of cases either overturned or granted mistrials or appeals granted. Can not be trusted as a witness.
This is the "star witness" in their claim Abrego Garcia is a gang member