An Escondido family says a North County father was detained at the annual ICE check-in he’s regularly attended for more than 20 years.

Adonis Constantinovici fled Romania in 1990 at the age of 10, arriving as a refugee in Iowa, his family said. He got into trouble there, pleading guilty to multiple misdemeanor charges, including theft, public intoxication, possession of marijuana and more, beginning in 1999, according to a review of court records in Iowa.

Constantinovici was ordered removed in 2001, but, his family told NBC 7, Romania would not accept him.

“Supposedly he cannot go back to Romania because they have no record of his citizenship,” his father-in-law, Alan Giesecke, said Thursday.

Constantinovici’s father fled Romania first and his son joined him later with his mother and h

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