The 18th Judicial District Attorney will likely not be able to prosecute a man facing robbery and kidnapping chargers after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took him into custody, the District Attorney’s Office said on Friday.

Yerbis Manuel Garcia-Quintero, 46, was set to appear in court on Thursday afternoon on two felony cases in the 18th Judicial District. He did not show up.

Garcia-Quintero was charged in one case with second-degree kidnapping, obstruction of telephone service and criminal mischief. His bond was set at $100,000 and he was able to bail out on a surety bond on Feb. 1, according to local authorities.

In his second case, he faced charges of aggravated robbery, witness-victim intimidation, second-degree assault, extortion, felony menacing, false imprisonment, criminal possession of an identification document and violent crime. His bond was set at $250,000 and he was released again on a surety bond the same day.

The District Attorney’s Office said it later learned that the defendant was taken into ICE custody and sent to an out-of-state facility. ICE did not bring Garcia-Quintero to his scheduled hearing on Thursday and the district office does not know where he is.

District Attorney Amy Padden called ICE’s actions in the case a “major injustice.”

“When a federal agency’s actions prevent us from performing the job I was elected to do by transporting a defendant with pending criminal charges outside of my jurisdiction and failing to produce him for a scheduled court hearing, this is a major injustice to this community and to the victims impacted by these cases,” Padden said in the release.

“Based on this turn of events, it is unlikely we’ll be able to prosecute the defendant anytime soon,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Brian Sugioka added. “Sadly, the victims in these cases may not receive the justice they deserve.”

The Denver Gazette reached out to the ICE unit in Denver but did not hear back by press time.