(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed an Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the City of Urbana, Illinois, for records related to a January 2025 fatal drunk-driving crash caused by an illegal alien who was later convicted in the death of Katie Abraham (Judicial Watch Inc. v. City of Urbana (No. 2026CH000049)).
The lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Champaign County, Illinois, after the Urbana Police Department failed to produce police reports, supplemental records, and video evidence concerning the crash involving Julio Cucul-Bol, a Guatemalan national who was unlawfully present in the United States.
Cucul-Bol pleaded guilty to multiple charges in connection with the fatal hit-and-run crash that killed two women – 21-year-old Chloe Polzin and 20-year-old Katherine J. Abraham. Three other passengers were injured. He was arrested near Dallas, Texas, while on a bus heading to Mexico. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison for charges that included “aggravated driving under the influence in a crash resulting in death.”
Cucul-Bol is also facing unrelated federal charges.
In September 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Abraham, “relentlessly arresting criminal illegal alien drunk drivers across Illinois.”
“This is a straightforward transparency case. The criminal prosecution is over, yet the Urbana Police Department is withholding records about a fatal crash,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Katie Abraham lost her life. The government should not be hiding these records from the public.”
Judicial Watch is being assisted by Christine Svenson Esq. of Svenson Legal LLC, Palatine, IL.
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