Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report

[orangecrush]

A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison, according to documents reviewed by USA TODAY.

A report approved by the police-officer-turned-prison-contractor claimed the Venezuelan man was a member of the notorious gang Tren de Aragua.

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But the credibility of Charles Cross Jr., who signed the report, was so bad, prosecutors flagged him on a list of police who had been accused of lying, breaking the law or acting in a way that erodes their credibility to testify in Milwaukee County.

Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee police sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated. He appealed the decision and resigned in the process, according to the department.

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Today, Cross, 62, is one of the private prison contractors helping to identify Venezuelan migrants as members of the criminal outfit Tren de Aragua – a designation that’s landing them in a Salvadoran prison without due process.

Entrusting private contractors – and not federal agents – to determine whether migrants are members of a criminal gang adds a new level of apprehension, migrant advocates and a former ICE official said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2025/04/10/fired-milwaukee-police-officer-report-gay-stylist-salvadoran-prison/83005721007/

This cop drove his car into a house while drunk, gets fired, and gets a job in a private prison with the power of life and death.

It makes much more sense now.

Welcome to the banana Republic.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Absolutely frightening.

[KT2000]

2. I worry about him

every day. I wish we could do something because he is surely being brutalized there if he is still alive. What has this country become. Good to hear usatoday is investigating.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Horrifying.

What the deportee was sent to May have been death.

The least the drunk ex-cop should do is go to El Salvador and bring him back.

[allegorical oracle]

4. That young gay make-up artist has no business being in El Salvador, but

there's little to learn about how to help him. He supposedly was rounded up because of a tattoo on his forearm. It signifies a "crown" -- an award he won. If anyone is in danger in that prison it is this man. Wish we could do something.

[orangecrush]

5. He was crying for his Mamma

And praying as they were beating the shit out of him.

Sounds like a real hardcore gang member.