FARGO, N.D. – A man sentenced to five years in prison in a 2017 felony robbery case in Fargo now faces deportation.
Nynnkpaw Banyee was sentenced in June 2018 to five years in prison with one-year supervised probation with more than 200 days credit served.
After Banyee’s release from state prison, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested him and subjected him to mandatory detention in a county jail in Minnesota, according to the Constitutional Accountability Center, a non-profit think tank located in Washington, D.C..
He was also charged in state court with failure to stop or remain at the scene of an accident in 2017 and preventing arrest in 2023.
According to documents from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, because he “brandished a gun” and menaced others in the course of committing a theft, his robbery was a Class B felony.
Three years later, the Department of Homeland Security arrested the man, charging him with authority to be deported but wasn’t. He later appealed, and a judge then ordered him removed to the Ivory Coast.
Banyee immigrated to the U.S. in 2004 as a child refugee and became a lawful permanent resident one year later.
Flag Family News has reached out to the U.S. Department of Justice regarding Banyee’s deportation status.
