A Maryland man detained by immigration officials for a month says D.C. police coordinated with immigration agents to lure him to a police station and take him into custody. Late last year, after 37-year-old Jose Argueta reported the theft of his car to Montgomery County police, he received a call from D.C. police saying they'd recovered his car and he could pick it up at the Fifth District station, his attorney said. But when Argueta walked into the police station, he was placed in custody by ICE agents, the Washington Post first reported. “It appears even more clear than before that there was impermissible sharing of information that we think is in violation of the Sanctuary Values Act, in addition to the fact that the arrest by ICE occurred at an MPD police station, literally inside of it, which is a separate violation of the Sanctuary Values Act,” attorney Austin Rose of the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights said. Interim D.C. Police Chief Jeffery Carroll declined to provide details about the incident when asked about it at a D.C. Council oversight hearing late last month, saying it was still under internal review. “Obviously, it sounds not good,” he said. “But we need to investigate that to find out what happened.” Law enforcement sources told News4 the D.C. Office of Police Complaints also is investigating whether D.C. police lured Argueta to the police station so he could be detained by federal authorities. According to a police report and a charging document for the man charged with stealing Argueta’s car, D.C. police from the Fifth District, along with federal agents and U.S. Park Police, were patrolling as part of the federal task force. They spotted the stolen white Hyundai Sonata in the 900 block of Franklin Street NE. When they tried to stop the car, the suspect fled. The driver intentionally rammed one of the federal agents’ vehicles, injuring several agents, including one who had to be taken to a hospital, according to court documents. The chase ended in the 2700 block of 7th Street NE, where the suspect tried to run but was apprehended in an alley behind the 600 block of Girard Street NE. According to the charging document, an MPD officer from the 5th District called Argueta to confirm it was his car. Rose said Argueta only received one call from police. They told him to go to the Fifth District to get his car. “And then it sounds like the person who called him on Friday, Dec. 5, to say that his car was at the station was in fact a D.C. police officer — the officer listed in this report,” Rose said. “He received one call, and that's when he went to the station." “So, it confirms that it was an MPD officer that called him to tell him to come to the station to collect his car,” Rose said. D.C. police would not comment, but a law enforcement source familiar with the internal investigation said they have not ruled out the likelihood it was an MPD officer who told Argueta to go to the station to retrieve his car. That source said it’s also likely that after the federal agent was injured, federal agents were able to run the tag and determine the immigration status of the car’s owner. “This is the ultimate embodiment of why policies limiting collaboration with ICE are so important and how the trust of the community can be completely ruptured when those policies are violated,” Rose said. “I mean, that is appalling,” he said. Argueta was held for about a month before being released. He still faces removal proceedings. Argueta’s attorney said he has not been contacted by D.C. police or the Office of Police Complaints regarding their investigations. Argueta still hasn’t gotten his car back, the attorney said. Get the D.C. area's top news and weather delivered to your inbox every morning. Sign up for First & 4Most, our free newsletter.