Fox News reported Marcotulio Melendez Diaz was charged in a Mounds View case after a judge ordered his release from ICE custody.

Penetration involving coercion, on Fox News, and criminal sexual conduct, at the Center of the American Experiment, are not the same charge line. Oct. 11 and Oct. 12 are not the same date. Fox's sentence that he was charged two days after the Oct. 9 order is not the Oct. 28 custody date the Center reported from jail records. The bail figures and Nov. 25 are the Center. A charge is the filing those pages report.

Fox News, in a story by Bonny Chu and Bill Melugin published November 2, 2026, at 6:32 p.m. EST, reported an illegal alien who was released from immigration custody by a Clinton-appointed federal judge in August has been charged in connection with an alleged assault of a woman inside her Minnesota home two months later, which the story attributed to federal immigration authorities. The lede uses a graphic verb for that allegation. That wording is not repeated here. It reported Marcotulio Melendez Diaz, 42, of Honduras, was working as a handyman on Oct. 11. It reported the assault inside the Mounds View home was captured on indoor surveillance video, officials said. The video is not described here. It reported he was charged with felony first-degree criminal sexual penetration involving coercion. It reported he remains in custody and faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted. The woman is not named. The page does not print her age. It reported Immigration and Customs Enforcement blasted U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia for ordering his release. It quoted the agency: "This is what happens when activist judges side with criminal illegal aliens over Americans," and, "ICE arrested him, and an immigration judge ordered his deportation. But a Clinton-appointed federal judge ordered him RELEASED," and, "And now an American woman has suffered a horrific crime that could have been PREVENTED." The quotation does not describe the allegation. It reported ICE sources said he was initially apprehended and released at the southern border by the Biden administration in April 2024, that he was arrested again in Minnesota in January 2026, during Operation Metro Surge, and transferred to ICE detention in Texas, and that on March 30 an immigration judge issued a deportation order against him, which he appealed. It reported that while the deportation order was under review, Garcia, a federal judge in the Western District of Texas, ordered his release from ICE custody after granting his habeas petition on due process grounds, finding that his detention had been unlawful or unreasonably prolonged. It reported the ruling allowed him to return to Minnesota. It reported that on Oct. 9 his appeal was rejected, and the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a deportation order against him. It reported that just two days after his deportation order became final, he was charged. The page's verb for that charge is not repeated here. Two days after Oct. 9 is Oct. 11, which is the date the same story gives for the handyman allegation. The page does not print a separate date for when the charge was filed. It does not print August 7, a day in August, Ramsey County, a bail figure, October 28, Little Canada, an interpreter, or November 25.

The Center of the American Experiment, in a story by Bill Glahn dated November 2, 2026, with no clock printed on the byline, reported Marcotulio Melendez Diaz, 42 of Honduras and billed out of Little Canada, was taken into custody in Minnesota in January during Operation Metro Surge, transferred to an ICE detention facility in Texas, and that a habeas corpus case was filed in Texas in March and a Texas-based federal judge ordered the release of Melendez in August on due process grounds. A habeas case filed in March, in that story, and a deportation order on March 30, in Fox News, are not the same March event. Fox News does not print a March filing date for the habeas case. The Center does not print March 30. It reported he is an illegal alien who entered America in April 2024, during the Biden Administration. Illegal alien is the phrase on both pages. It reported District Judge Orlando Garcia, a Clinton appointee, freed him citing the 5th amendment due process clause, and that Garcia had earlier served as the Western District's Chief Judge. Clinton appointee, at the Center, and Clinton-appointed, on Fox News, are not the same construction. The 5th amendment and Chief Judge are the Center. Fox News does not print them. Unlawful or unreasonably prolonged is Fox News. The Center does not print that finding. It reported he is now accused of 1st degree felony criminal sexual conduct for attacking a woman in Mounds View, Minnesota. First-degree criminal sexual penetration involving coercion, on Fox News, and 1st degree felony criminal sexual conduct, at the Center, are not the same charge line. Attacking a woman is the Center's phrase. Handyman is Fox News. The Center does not print it. The Center's headline uses the word rape. That wording is not repeated here. The page quotes a November 2 post by Bill Melugin that uses the same word and breaks off. The quotation is not repeated here.

The Center reported Ramsey County jail records indicate he was taken into custody on October 28 and remains in custody, originally on $200,000 bail, and that a Ramsey County judge lowered the bail amount to $150,000. It reported the alleged incident occurred on October 12. October 12, at the Center, and Oct. 11, on Fox News, are not the same date. October 28, in the jail records as the Center reported them, is not two days after Oct. 9. Fox News does not print October 28 or the bail figures. It reported he requires a Spanish-language interpreter for his court appearances and is due back in state court on November 25. Fox News does not print the interpreter or November 25. The Center does not print indoor surveillance, a handyman, 30 years, Oct. 9, or the Board of Immigration Appeals. Neither page prints August 7. Neither page prints an immigration detainer on the Minnesota case. The woman is not named in either story. She is not named here. The charge is what those pages report was filed. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.