Criminal Complaint & ICE Affidavit — US v. Andres Jimenez-Santiago (S.D. Ill. 3:25-cr-30036-NJR, Doc. 1): ERO officer describes searching St. Clair County jail bookings in the Accurint Virtual Crime Center

Federal criminal complaint and supporting ICE affidavit charging Andres Jimenez-Santiago with illegal reentry (8 USC 1326) in the Southern District of Illinois. Document 1, page 2 of 3.

The affidavit is a rare first-person description of the LexisNexis-to-ICE pathway written by the officer who used it. The ERO deportation officer states that on September 17, 2024 he learned of the subject's presence by searching St. Clair County, Illinois jail bookings on LexisNexis, and identifies those bookings as part of the Accurint Virtual Crime Center database used by ERO officers. The subject had been arrested by the Belleville, Illinois police department on September 16, 2024 for DUI and aggravated battery to a police officer. The officer then matched the county booking photos to federal booking photos taken before the subject's April 1, 2019 removal to Mexico at Laredo, Texas.

Significance for the project: this is a sworn federal statement that a specific Illinois county's jail bookings are inside AVCC and are queried by ICE ERO, in a state whose TRUST Act bars local agencies from sharing custody information with federal immigration authorities absent a criminal warrant. No warrant is described. It documents the sanctuary bypass mechanism from the federal side rather than from a contract or FOIA return.

What the document does NOT establish: how St. Clair County booking data reaches LexisNexis. It is silent on whether the county contributes directly under an AVCC XML Addendum, whether the data arrives via Appriss Insights / Justice Intelligence aggregation, or whether it is harvested from the public roster.