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One of Yahya Jammeh’s Junglers, Michael Sang Correa, 41, has been arrested this Thursday in Denver on federal torture charges, accused of abusing political prisoners in his home country of The Gambia. Michael Sang Correa was scheduled to appear before a magistrate judge at 2 p.m. local time. This new arrest is second after last year Correa’s custody at the Immigration Customs and Enforcement facility in Aurora on immigration charges.
A federal grand jury indicted Correa this June 2nd on one count of conspiracy to commit torture and six counts of aiding and abetting torture. The statute in the case — which allows U.S. officials to prosecute foreign nationals residing in the U.S. for alleged crimes they committed elsewhere — had only been used twice before, according U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn.
Michael Sang Correa traveled to the United States in December 2016 to work as a bodyguard for the Gambian vice president, who was visiting the United Nations. When Yahya Jammeh was voted out of office at that same time, Correa stayed in the U.S., and at some point moved to Denver, where he lived with his wife and worked as a day laborer.
Two Democratic U.S. senators wrote a letter in February to U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf asking for Correa to be prosecuted for the alleged abuses. The senators said at that time that they learned Correa was in federal custody in Colorado for overstaying a visa – which was first reported by Just Security in December.
The senators also wrote that Correa had since his arrest unsuccessfully applied for asylum in the U.S. and had been ordered to be removed from the country.
Source: Frédéric Tendeng