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   An alleged crack-smoking, sexual-predator migrant wanted by ICE was   
   allowed to flee through a back door of a Manhattan courthouse —   
   infuriating federal agents, The Post has learned.   
      
   Gerardo Miguel Mora, 45, was arrested Thursday for shoplifting and   
   possession of stolen property after allegedly snatching $130 in items   
   from an H&M display case in Midtown that day, court records show.   
      
   Mora, whose country of origin was not disclosed, was collared on the   
   Upper West Side on Jan. 7 for possession of alleged crack cocaine,   
   according to a criminal complaint. That case is pending in court.   
      
   In 2011, Mora was busted for attempted rape and strangulation after he   
   allegedly followed a 21-year-old woman home in Midtown, choked her and   
   tried to remove her clothes, police sources said.   
      
   He was stopped by a bystander who heard the woman’s cries and came to   
   her aid, holding Mora down until cops arrived, the sources said.   
      
   He was presumably deported after that, and was off the radar for 12   
   years. But in 2023 he was back in the US and arrested for showing a   
   false ID.   
      
   Federal authorities had been looking for Mora on a criminal arrest   
   warrant under a section of the US code that concerns “reentry of removed   
   aliens,” law enforcement sources said.   
      
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   Judge Sheridan Jack-Browne had a copy of the federal criminal arrest   
   warrant for Mora but released him, according to a police source.   
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   But on Thursday in a court hearing on desk appearance tickets, the judge   
   let Mora waltz out of the courtroom, sources said.   
      
   The shoplifting charge itself was not bail eligible, but Judge Sheridan   
   Jack-Browne, a Democrat who won a special election last year in   
   Brooklyn, would have had the federal arrest warrant, two sources told   
   The Post.   
      
   The warrant is actually put in a folder for the judge to peruse on the   
   bench.   
      
   “Everything was sent over” to the courthouse by ICE, a federal law   
   enforcement source said.   
      
   But instead of handing him over to waiting ICE agents, Mora was allowed   
   to simply slip out the back door of Manhattan Criminal Court, law   
   enforcement sources said.   
      
   “They refused to hand him over,” the irate fed said. “They let him out   
   the back to avoid ICE.”   
      
   ICE agents realized Mora had been released, and chased him down outside,   
   a source said.   
      
   Mora’s now in federal custody. The Department of Justice could prosecute   
   Mora, deport him or both.   
      
   Because it’s a sanctuary city, New York doesn’t work with the feds when   
   it comes to immigration enforcement. But allegations of actively   
   obstructing the feds are unusual.   
      
   The feds have recently delivered warrants for three other criminal   
   migrants that haven’t been honored, law enforcement sources said.   
      
   “Unfortunately, that’s what we do now,” said a longtime NYPD officer   
   dismayed by the city’s policy of icing out ICE. “We don’t acknowledge   
   any federal anything. I don’t think that’s right. They came into the   
   country the wrong way and they committed a crime.   
      
   “They should be deported,” the cop added. “We should be able to hand   
   them over to the feds.”   
      
   In some case the feds have gone after judges that it feels have   
   obstructed ICE operations.   
      
   Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan faces up to five years in prison after she   
   was convicted of felony obstruction last year for helping an   
   undocumented immigrant evade ICE agents in her courtroom.   
      
   Jack-Browne and the state Office of Court Administration did not return   
   requests for comment. The Department of Homeland Security did not   
   comment.   
      
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