A Chinese national who police allege nearly hit a Clare County sheriff’s deputy is in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after refusing to stop his electric vehicle during a multi-county chase last week.

“I don’t know what status he’s on,” Clare County Sheriff’s Lt. Aaron Miller told The Midwesterner, referring to the immigration status for Chinese national Derong Huang. “He was released from our jail and there was an ICE hold.”

The 35-year-old was arrested by Clare County deputies in Osceola County on April 16 after nearly hitting a deputy conducting a traffic stop around 12:22 a.m. in Farwell.

During the traffic stop, a white Tesla Model 3 drove past without slowing or moving over, nearly clipping the deputy, who pursued the Tesla after finishing the traffic stop.

The deputy activated his emergency lights and sirens once behind the Tesla, but the vehicle did not stop and continued onto M-115, driving into Osceola County, WNEM reported.

A Clare County road sergeant positioned ahead of the chase deployed stop sticks to blow out all four of the vehicle’s tires, and Huang stopped the Tesla.

Clare County deputies arrested Huang on one count each of fourth-degree fleeing and eluding, resisting and obstructing, and operating a motor vehicle without a license.

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Huang was arraigned in Clare County’s 80^th District Court, where his bond was set at 10% of $30,000, according to WWTV.

The arrest was just the latest in a growing number of crimes involving nonresidents in Clare County.

Guatemalan illegal immigrant Elmer Rafael Vicente Vicente, 43, was arrested in late February after fleeing from police while driving intoxicated on M-115 at 130 mph, according to the sheriff’s department.

That chase involved multiple callers who reported a blude GMC Terrain driving erratically on M-115, and a sheriff’s deputy located the vehicle stopped on the shoulder of the road. When the deputy attempted to check on the vehicle, it sped away, WJRT reports.

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The sergeant returned to his vehicle and pursued the Terrain, which reached speeds of up to 130 mph. The vehicle eventually turned eastbound on US-10, then north on US-127, where a Clare County deputy deployed spike strips to blow out the vehicle’s tires, WWTV reports.

The Terrain came to a stop near the Mannsiding Road overpass, where authorities allege Vicente fled briefly on foot before he was taken into custody. Following his arrest, police allege Vicente kicked and smashed his head against a partition in the patrol vehicle, causing damage, according to the sheriff’s department.

Vicente was in 80^th District Court on one count of fourth-degree fleeing and eluding; one count of malicious destruction of property; six counts of resisting and obstructing; one count of drunken driving; and one count of driving without a license, according to court records cited by The Morning Sun.

Another illegal immigrant, Victor Julio Tellaria-Sanchez, 36, was also flagged for ICE after he allegedly bought a vehicle from a woman in Clare County in January using fake $100 bills. Tellaria-Sanchez was arrested the next day in Three Rivers, and charged with two felony counts – larceny by false pretenses over $1,000 but less than $20,000, and uttering and publishing counterfeit notes.

The recent Clare County arrests are among scores of other nonresidents busted for a wide variety of crimes throughout Michigan amid the largest deportation effort in U.S. History, initiated as promised on President Donald Trump’s first day of his second term.

Angel Eduardo Mavarez-Romero, a 26-year-old Venezuelan, was arraigned in late February on felony safe breaking and fleeing and eluding charges over an ATM break-in at Lake Trust Credit Union on West Shore Drive, WOOD reports.

Much like Vicente, Mavarez-Romero allegedly led police on a high speed chase that ended with a crash into the median on U.S. 31, followed by a foot chase. A K-9 unit eventually located Mavarez-Romero hiding under industrial equipment in Olive Township.

The day before Mavarez-Romero’s arrest, previously deported illegal immigrant from Mexico Gilberto Hernandez-Mendez murdered his girlfriend’s mother and injured two others in a shooting spree at an Alpine Township home, police allege.

Data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement released in September showed more than 662,000 illegal immigrants on the agency’s docket who have criminal convictions or charges pending.

Those criminals, the vast majority free to roam the U.S., include 13,099 convicted murderers, 15,811 convicted of sexual assaults, 162,231 convicted of assault, 56,533 with dangerous drug convictions, 5,797 convicted of fraud, 18,234 convicted of larceny, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 13,423 with weapons convictions 10,031 convicted of robbery, 9,461 with non-assaultive sexual convictions, 2,521 kidnappers, and 217 convicted of extortion.