photo by: Mike Yoder/Journal-World File Photo

The Douglas County Jail is shown in this file photo from February 2015.

Story updated at 5:07 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12:

A Lawrence man was being held on Wednesday in the Douglas County Jail without a bond on a warrant from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Bartolo Lucas Perez, 24, of Lawrence, was arrested around 10 p.m. Tuesday on suspicion of several minor infractions, including driving without a valid license, lack of insurance, transporting an open container and failure to appear for a traffic violation. He was granted an own-recognizance bond in connection with the new allegations, meaning he was not required to pay any money to be released from jail. He paid a cash bond in connection with the failure to appear warrant.

However, the last entry in the jail booking log for Perez said that he was being detained without a bond in connection with a warrant hold from ICE.

George Diepenbrock, a spokesman for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, said Perez was fingerprinted during the standard booking process, and that after that, on Wednesday morning, “ICE contacted the Sheriff’s Office and sent an I-200 form.”

An ICE Form I-200 is usually signed by senior immigration agents but is authorized by federal law. The form is a probable cause warrant for alleged immigration violations.

The jail’s inmate roster confirmed that Perez was still in custody Wednesday morning. The jail log indicates that Perez was arrested by Lawrence police at Joe’s Kwik Mart, 2330 Iowa St.

Laura McCabe, a spokeswoman for the Lawrence Police Department, described how Lawrence police made contact with Perez. She said an officer spotted the man driving without headlights and pulled him over, then noticed a bottle of alcohol in the car. The officer did not suspect him of driving under the influence, McCabe said, but the officer did arrest him in connection with an outstanding misdemeanor warrant.

The sheriff’s office will hold Perez for up to 48 hours in connection with the warrant, then release him if he is not picked up, Diepenbrock said. The office did not encounter any warrants of this kind in 2024, as the Journal-World reported.