Houston family wants answers after loved one detained by ICE

24-year-old Jocelyn Penalosa was taken into ICE custody after a traffic stop by a Harris County Sheriff's deputy back in August. According to her attorney, she was partially in an intersection near Highway 6 and Westheimer. Her sister says after Penalosa was stopped, she had to wait over an hour for ICE agents to arrive. I just want to tell her story because I know that she didn't deserve it. She was just coming from work. She's not like a criminal. she's never even had a traffic ticket you know the reason why she was driving is because we need to work you know to survive in this country sorry she's a very smart person and I know if she would have gotten the opportunity to like study and go to college it would have been better for her but because she's undocumented and she wasn't able to but she was the top 10 of her class a a very smart person, and she cares for the people she knows, even the people she doesn't know. In a statement about the original traffic stop, the Harris County Sheriff's Office says, The Harris County Sheriff's Office is reviewing the circumstances surrounding a traffic stop that occurred on August 19, 2026, to determine whether the deputy complied with all policies. The deputy has been temporarily assigned to non-traffic enforcement duties pending the outcome of the internal review. The attorney representing Penalosa's family says Jocelyn was first booked into the Montgomery Processing Center in early August, but was shortly transferred over to the Otay Mesa Detention Center in California. Tuesday, attorney Kim Bruno and her team were able to secure an immigration bond for her. She still has the charges that immigration gave her, but it's getting her out of detention because we go through the qualifying requirements, which is she is not a flight risk. She is not a danger to the community. She is not a threat to national security. And for those reasons, we were able to plead to the judge to let her out on a bond so that she could proceed all immigration relief outside of detention. I am still waiting to hear back from the Department of Homeland Security, but we'll keep you updated right here on Fox Local. Angie Rodriguez, Fox 26 News.