Nehemias Valeriano Midence was arrested April 23 on misdemeanor charges of stalking, resisting arrest and obstructing a peace officer.

When he was arrested, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put a hold on him, pending deportation action.

Midence made an initial appearance in Municipal Court on April 24.

By April 25, the ICE hold was lifted and he was held in the Cascade County Adult Detention Center on a $5,000 bond and required GPS monitoring prior to release, according to the County Attorney’s Office and the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office.

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Local officials told The Electric that ICE had informed them they lifted the hold since they didn’t have the capacity to pick him up currently and that he had a deportation court date, bond and they knew his location.

On April 30, Midence bonded out of the jail with GPS monitoring.

Midence’s county of origin is Honduras, according to multiple officials and the case highlighted some current national political themes regarding immigration and crime.

The most recent arrest was not due to Midence’s immigration status, but due to complaints from a local woman of his criminal behavior.

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“The focus of the Great Falls Police Department is enforcement of state and local law, first and foremost, and it is very uncommon for us to be asked to assist with any deportation efforts,” GFPD’s Lt. Matt Fleming told The Electric.

There have been few recent ICE holds in the Cascade County jail, according to multiple officials.

Midence’s current case is in Great Falls Municipal Court, a court of limited jurisdiction.

Judges in Municipal Court, or in District Court, have no ability to enforce federal laws, including immigration laws.

Immigration laws can only be enforced by a federal court or a federal judge.

Midence was placed on an ICE hold in 2022 that was also lifted, according to the Cascade County Attorney’s Office.

Midence, 21, was arrested April 23 on complaints related to his personal relationship with a local woman who told investigators that they were in a sexual relationship and he had threatened her, required her to share her phone location with him and called, texted or messaged repeatedly.

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During an April 23 interview with Great Falls police officers, the woman said that she’d known of Midence in high school but had gotten involved with him in February and they were in a sexual relationship.

In March, he was arrested by ICE, had a deportation hearing in Nevada, bonded out and returned to Great Falls about a week later, when he restarted his relationship with the woman, according to police affidavits and local officials.

Soon after his return to Great Falls, Midence required the woman to have her cell phone location on at all times and if she didn’t, he’d call or text continually, according to the officer affidavit. In one instance, he called 18 times in a row.

He also showed up at her school or apartment and was controlling. She told officers she was scared and didn’t know how to leave him.

She told her coaches and best friend about the situation and sought counseling due to his “constant harassment,” according to the officer affidavit.

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During her interview with GFPD, she said that Midence had told her the night before that if she left him, he’d kill her, according to the affidavit.

GFPD officers interviewed Midence on April 23, during which he admitted that he liked to know where “his girl” is and that he could be controlling. He admitted to officers that his actions could cause the woman fear and that he had made a statement along the lines of if she left him, he’d kill her, during a sexual encounter, meant to “turn her on,” according to the affidavit.

Officers determined they were charging Midence with stalking and while going to arrest him at the group home he works in, they learned he had a history of resisting arrest from his March arrest by ICE, according to a police affidavit.

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When officers arrived at the residence, they saw him through an open window and advised him to come outside. He refused and asked why they needed to speak to him, according to the affidavit.

Midence continued refusing to come outside to speak to officers and called someone on the phone yelling “policia,” according to the affidavit.

A member of the U.S. Marshals task force broke through the window screen and grabbed onto Midence, at which point he pulled away, so a GFPD officer also reached in to grab him.

Officers told Midence he was under arrest, but he continued to resist, so an officer attempted to tase Midence, but it didn’t work and Midence broke free, fleeing out a back door, according to the affidavit.

Midence fled from GFPD officers and U.S. Marshals, who pursued and eventually arrested him, according to the affidavit.

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Midence has had contact with local law enforcement going back to 2019, according to the Cascade County Attorney’s Office, Cascade County Sheriff’s Office and Great Falls Police Department.

In 2019, he was cited as a minor in possession of tobacco.

There’s been about 20 calls for service related to Midence since 2023, according to local law enforcement and over the years, those calls and charges have included kidnapping, custodial interference, theft, order of protection violation, trespass and a city cell phone violation. All of those incidents were initiated by local complaints.