A suburban Chicago police officer was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after he allegedly overstayed his visa by a decade.
Radule Bojovic, a Montenegro native who serves with the Village of Hanover Park Police Department, was taken into federal custody sometime during Operation Midway Blitz, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday.
Bojovic was hired by the department in January 2025 after passing the background check and providing all required documents, including a “valid and recently renewed” Work Authorization Card, according to a press release from the Village of Hanover Park Police Department.
The police department noted that, at the time, Bojovic’s background check didn’t flag any prior run-ins with the Illinois State Police or FBI, according to the release.
“The bottom line is that all information we received from the federal government indicated that Officer Bojovic is legally authorized to work in the United States as a police officer. Clearly, without that authorization, the Village would not have hired him. Additionally, the Village has not received any notice from any federal or state agency that his work authorization status has ever been revoked,” Hanover Park Police Deputy Chief Victor DiVito wrote.
DHS officials, though, lambasted the entire situation as a prime example of “Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois.”
In a press release, DHS asserted that Bojovic was overstaying a B2 visa that expired on March 31, 2015.
“Radule Bojovic violated our nation’s laws and was living ILLEGALLY in the United States for 10 years—what kind of police department gives criminal illegal aliens badges and guns? It’s a felony for aliens to even possess a firearm. A so-called law enforcement officer who is actively breaking the law,” DHS Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said. --->READ MORE HERE
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According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the police officer overstayed a tourism visa. The Hanover Park Police Department said they confirmed he was federally authorized to work in the United States before hiring him earlier this year.
Federal immigration agents have arrested a Hanover Park police officer they claim overstayed a tourism visa, but village officials say the arrest contradicts the information they had received from the federal government earlier this year.
Radule Bojovic, a native of Montenegro, was “encountered during a targeted enforcement action,” according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He remained in immigration detention as of late Thursday in the Clay County Justice Center in Indiana, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detainee locator.
According to the Village of Hanover Park, Bojovic presented a valid and recently renewed work authorization card when he was hired back in January. The department also conducted a full background check with Illinois State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“The bottom line is that all information we received from the federal government indicated that Officer Bojovic is legally authorized to work in the United States as a police officer, " the village said in a statement. “Clearly, without that authorization, the Village would not have hired him.”
Federal immigration officials say Bojovic overstayed a tourism visa that they say expired in March 2015. In a statement, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin accused Bojovic of, “living ILLEGALLY in the United States for 10 years,” and questioned the why the police department hired him.
But village officials say federal officials signed off on a background check before Bojovic was hired. The village said it also confirmed, based on a memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, that Bojovic’s immigration status allowed him to carry a weapon while on duty.--->READ MORE HERE
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