Japanese authorities said a shrine and temple were daubed with oil, and that they had traced the acts to Masahide Kanayama through surveillance footage.
Carlos Anibal Chalco Chango, 40, was released on Monday from an upstate New York jail where he had been held without his cane. It was a surprising move by an agency that rarely frees detainees.
After his arrest, Carlos Anibal Chalco Chango was initially placed in a cell at 26 Federal Plaza, the ICE offices in Lower Manhattan, where he was barred from using a text-to-audio app that could help him read legal documents.