Illegal alien sentenced to 6 years for child sex crimes after Fairfax officials ignored ICE detainer, released him: DHS

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA—Demonstrating their unwavering commitment to progressive values and hospitality, enlightened virtue-signaling Fairfax County officials successfully released an illegal immigrant wanted for child sex crimes back into the community after courageously ignoring a pesky federal detainer.

Roni Mendez-Escobar, a Guatemalan national who had already mastered the art of crossing the U.S. border by doing it three separate times in 2015 alone, was arrested on October 23, 2025, for possession of child sex abuse material. 

Recognizing a prime opportunity to stand up against xenophobia, local officials swiftly discarded a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer and set him free just four days later without bothering to notify federal authorities.

Unfortunately for the visionary sanctuary bureaucrats, heartless federal agents ruined the feel-good story by apprehending Mendez-Escobar at a court hearing on April 22, 2026. 

On September 16, the scumcrumpet was sentenced to merely six years and five months in prison.

“This illegal alien was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of child pornography and illegal re-entry,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “When ICE lodged a detainer for him after his arrest in October 2025, sanctuary politicians in Fairfax County, Virginia refused to honor it and RELEASED him into their community. Fortunately, their attempts to protect this pedophile failed and ICE arrested him several months later. Now he will be behind bars where he belongs, and when he finishes his sentence, ICE will be ready to deport him so he can never threaten another American child.”

Meanwhile, Fairfax County leaders were reportedly drafting a sternly worded resolution expressing deep disappointment that oppressive federal laws interfered with their vibrant community outreach program.

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Illegal alien stabs mother to death leaves her body in a park

Here we go again. An illegal alien from El Salvador allegedly stabbed a Virginia mother to death and then dumped her body near a jogging trail in Great Falls, Virginia.

Fairfax County PD said Wednesday that Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, was arrested in connection with the murder of Carmen Lizet Puch.

Cedillos-Campos illegally crossed the southern border into El Paso, Texas, in April 2024 and was quickly released into the United States. At that time, he said he wasn't afraid of being returned to El Salvador and he was released into Biden's open borders country.

A jogger discovered Ms. Puch’s corpse just before 7 a.m. on Monday. The body lay near her 2011 Honda Civic, that was parked in the lot at Difficult Run Park along Georgetown Pike near Old Dominion Drive, according to 7News.

“In Great Falls, it’s probably one of the safest places ever in the world,” Clare, who was out hiking with a friend Tuesday, said. “To have something happen like that feels personal, scary.”

Authorities said more details would be provided today, Wednesday, this afternoon.

“There is no immediate indication that this was a random act,” Capt. Jason Chandler said during a news conference on Monday. They evidently knew each other.

Puch was the mother of a young daughter and worked with Cedillos-Campos at Bitez restaurant in Herndon, according to NBC Washington. 

Cedillos-Campos allegedly stabbed Puch while she was inside her vehicle.

Abdul Anwari, the owner of Bitez, said he and his employees were shocked after learning of Puch’s murder. [Who wouldn't be?]

“I don’t know if you can process something like this. It’s not something you expect. It’s not something that anyone would ever want to happen,” Anwari told News4. “But you know, we’re still taking it [a] minute at a time.”

Anwari said a fundraiser has been set up to support Puch’s surviving daughter.

“We have a GoFundMe account set up, but we’re actually doing, we are personally donating to the family as well,” Anwari said. “But anyone in the community that can help, obviously, this is going to go directly to the family, and as far as I’m concerned, it should go to the daughter and make sure that she’s OK.”

Puch’s family members, who live in New Jersey, immediately drove to Virginia after learning of her killing to take care of her daughter, according to NBC Washington.

Joe Biden was not available for comment.

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ICE blames Dem. VA Gov. for another brutal murder by illegal alien

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, 38, who allegedly repeatedly stabbed a man to death in Fairfax County Sunday, as a "criminal illegal alien from Guatemala," according to ABC7.

Authorities found the victim inside a home with multiple stab wounds in his upper body Sunday, ABC7 reported. He later died at the hospital.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer with the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office, which has notoriously flouted the federal immigration agency’s demands to hand over illegal immigrant criminals.

Meanwhile, DHS has placed the blame on Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger for the tragic killing, calling her out for another recent murder by an illegal immigrant.

Sierra Leone national Abdul Jalloh, 32, who had 30 prior arrests, allegedly murdered 41-year-old mother Stephanie Minter at a Fairfax County bus stop last month. Jalloh’s rap sheet included arrests for rape, malicious wounding, assault, drug possession, identity theft, trespassing,
larceny, firing a weapon, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and pickpocketing, according to DHS.

Spanberger earlier said ICE’s detainer for Jalloh’s arrest wouldn’t be enough for local law enforcement to hand him over to immigration authorities for deportation.

"ICE is calling on Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and Virginia’s sanctuary politicians to not release this murderer back into our communities," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Lauren Bis told ABC7. "This incident comes just one month after an innocent woman was murdered by another criminal illegal alien at a bus stop in Democrat Spanberger’s state. Open-border policies yet again have caused another preventable tragedy."

When Spanberger entered office, she ended a cooperation agreement between state and local law enforcement and ICE. The day after Minter’s murder, the governor characterized ICE as "unaccountable agents" who "terrorize our communities" in the Democratic response to the State of the Union.

In almost every one of Jalloh’s previous cases, Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano’s office dropped the charges, ABC7 previously reported.

Authorities also previously warned about the dangers he posed to the community.

An officer with the Fairfax County Police Department notified Descano’s office in November, cautioning that he could continue to commit crimes if he’s released, according to emails obtained by 7News.

Muy was charged with second-degree murder and is being held without bond, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

DHS said he snuck into the country as a "gotaway," which means he made it past border authorities without detection, according to ABC7.

Muy also had an assault and battery charge from November 2024, when he was accused of punching a woman and attempting to strangle her, the outlet reported. A judge later dismissed the charge.

The Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney said the charge "was dismissed at the request of the victim pursuant to 19.2-151, an accord and satisfaction," in a statement to ABC7.

"Under that statute, the courts have discretion to dismiss a misdemeanor assault case (which this was charged as) when a defendant pays restitution to a victim. Here, the victim had expressed that the most important issue to them was restitution, which was paid. We try to honor the wishes of a victim, even though I do not favor resolution of cases by accord and satisfaction where violence is involved," the attorney said.

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Another Preventable Tragedy: Illegal Immigrant Released by Sanctuary Policies in Fairfax County Allegedly Murders Man One Day Later

Here we go again. In yet another glaring example of how Democrat-run sanctuary policies put American lives at risk, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador with a rap sheet longer than a Porto-San line on Octoberfest was cut loose by authorities in Fairfax County, Virginia, only to allegedly commit a murder the very next day.

Marvin Morales-Ortez, a 23-year-old illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member, was in custody on Tuesday facing charges of malicious wounding and brandishing a firearm. But thanks to the office of Soros-backed Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano, those charges were dropped, and he walked free. 

By Wednesday, a man was found shot dead in his Reston home, and Morales-Ortez was the prime suspect. After a manhunt involving drones, K-9s, and helicopters, he was tracked down and arrested on second-degree murder charges.

"The charges were nolle prossed due to insufficient evidence to move forward with the criminal case," a spokesperson for the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Office, headed by George Soros-backed Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano, told Fox News Digital. "The victim told police that they had moved out of the country and would not be coming to court to cooperate in proceedings, regardless of timing. Sadly, without the victim’s necessary testimony, we could not move forward."

Court records paint a disturbing picture: Morales-Ortez has been charged with at least seven crimes in Fairfax County since 2020, including a previous first-degree murder charge that was also dropped (someone else was later convicted). He's only been convicted once, for theft, and was fined $300, which he still hasn't paid.

Both the police and Descano's office pointed fingers at the sheriff's office, led by Stacey Kincaid, for handling ICE detainers. And sure enough, ICE had lodged a detainer, but Fairfax County's sanctuary policies meant it wasn't honored, unless there's a judicial warrant, which ICE didn't provide in this case.

"The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office follows all local, state, and federal laws when determining whether a person is subject to release from the ADC. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is automatically notified any time a person is booked into the ADC. In this instance, ICE was aware of Morales Ortez’s incarceration and elected not to seek a judicial warrant to ensure he remained in custody," Fox News Digital was told. "Accordingly, and consistent with our policies and the law, once the court issued an order dismissing his cases, Mr. Morales Ortez was released. "The Department of Homeland Security wasn't having any of the blame-shifting.

"This is nothing more than sanctuary politicians trying to pass the blame for their REFUSAL to protect American citizens," the spokesperson said. "To honor a detainer, officials do NOT need a judicial warrant. The sanctuary politicians of Fairfax have blood on their hands. They should have turned this serial criminal illegal alien over to ICE law enforcement--instead they chose to RELEASE him back into Virginia neighborhoods."

Critics like Sean Kennedy of Virginians for Safe Communities piled on, calling out Descano's track record.

"For Steve Descano’s office, letting violent criminals out to commit more crimes isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. But he bungles so many cases you can’t always tell where the incompetence ends and the ideology begins," Sean Kennedy, Virginians for Safe Communities president, told Fox News Digital. "That a dangerous offender would go free and create more victims is so commonplace in Fairfax that may have become numb to it. Descano exploits that."

This isn't some isolated screw-up—Fairfax County has long been criticized as one of the nation's most egregious sanctuary jurisdictions, routinely ignoring ICE detainers and prioritizing "trust" policies over public safety. Under the incoming Trump administration, ICE arrests in Virginia have surged, highlighting some of the "worst of the worst" criminal aliens recently nabbed. But tragedies like this one show the deadly cost of local officials playing politics with immigration enforcement.

How many more Americans have to die before these sanctuary politicians finally put citizens first?

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Illegal alien charged with town's first "stranger rape" in a dozen years, days after his release from jail

Herndon, Virginia -- Officers arrested Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, 31, Monday on charges of intent to defile and rape. Romero is an illegal alien from Honduras. He was charged with raping a woman on a hiking trail outside the nation's capital merely days after being released from jail ON ANOTHER SEX CRIME CHARGE! 

This is the first sexual assault by a stranger in the town for more than 12 years, authorities say.

“This is the only stranger rape that we have had in the town in my more than 12 years as chief of police,” said Herndon, Virginia, police chief Maggie DeBoard in a press conference Tuesday.

Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin blasted local officials for letting this garbage of a human being, a serial sexual scumquat, be released back into the community rather than turning him over to ICE for deportation.

“I am heartsick for this victim and outraged that local Fairfax County officials recklessly release violent illegal immigrants who should have been prosecuted and deported,” the Governor told The New York Post.

“This is a dereliction of their most basic duty to keep people safe. Prioritizing violent illegal immigrants over the safety of Fairfax residents is unacceptable,” he continued — adding that Virginia is not a sanctuary state.

The illegal alien is a Honduran national residing in the US illegally, with a rap sheet dates back years, according to Herndon police. He was released from jail just four days prior to his arrest Monday at the Washington and Old Dominion Trail about 25 miles west of the capital.

He was freed on Nov. 14 after serving just half his 50-day indecent exposure sentence due to “good behavior,” authorities said. In other words, while in jail, he didn't expose himself to Bubba and the gang, nor did he attempt to rape an inmate--he simply bided his time. 

The victim, who cops say didn’t know her attacker before the assault, was on the busy walking trail when he allegedly grabbed her arm, forced her to the ground and raped her just before 9 p.m. Monday.

After a bystander called for help, police arrived to the scene and arrested Romero within minutes.

DeBoard, the police chief, told reporters Romero has a history of sexual assaults in town and the surrounding area, but hey, that's no big deal. After all, he's a guest in our country and we need to treat him with respect and give him another chance. After all, what are the chances that he'll sexually assault someone DeBoard knows?

DeBoard told reporters this is the first incident of stranger rape she’s seen in her 12 years as the town’s top cop. "What is disturbing is the number of times this individual has been arrested and released," she told reporters. "He has continued to reoffend and his behavior has escalated to a rape in a very public area."

Yes, Romero set a new record in the town and his sex crime spree only began in 2018 when the very same Herndon PD received a report that he fondled a 14-year-old child. That triggered a Fairfax County sex crimes investigation, which uncovered that he’d also exposed himself to a 10-year-old and 13-year-old the year prior, per police records obtained by the Washington Post.

But hey, at least he didn't do it to any child of the town officials.

One woman, Jennifer DePugh, told Fox 5 DC that this illegal alien exposed himself to her while she was walking her dog in Northern Virginia last month.

Jennifer DePugh

"He kept coming trying to grab my dog. Then he was trying to come after me he was saying stuff. He didn’t speak English and then all of a sudden he started pulling his stuff [most likely his penis] out," Pugh told the local outlet. "I said ‘there’s Ring cameras all around, you know’ and he didn’t care."

The human excrement is now being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center as he awaits a preliminary hearing.

“It’s frustrating because I tell the community you should feel safe here and I do believe they are safe here, I truly do, but when you have cases like this, I look at this and see some part of the system… if it was all working together, if there was a way to make it work, this never would have happened,” DeBoard said, adding that no single party to the process is to blame.

Gov. Youngkin reminded the public that Romero and his ilk aren't going to get out of jail so easily once Trump is in office in 2025.

“When President Trump takes office, the political posturing will end and localities will cooperate with ICE to protect Virginians,” Youngkin said.

Once politicians are directly affected by the policies they support, the policies will change. Trump will directly affect these leftists.

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Former president of VA teacher union arrested for embezzling over $400,000

Ingrid Gant, former president of the Arlington Education Association (AEA) a Virginia teacher's union, was arrested and charged with embezzling 410,782.10 from the organization, police said in a press release from the Fairfax County Police Department.

Gant,  54, of Woodbridge, was president for six years before being caught with her hand in the proverbial cookie jar. She was terminated on March 30, 2022 and the board was forced to hire board members from an outside source.

Gant was charged with four counts of embezzlement allegedly using debit cards for unauthorized purchases and providing herself with multiple bonuses for the great job she believed she was doing on behalf of herself.

It took about six months after investigators began reviewing her activity to discover she had given herself $350,000 in bonuses and pay from 2020 to 2022, and charged about $70,000 on business debit cards for such items as gas, Amazon purchases and even food.

The AEA represents over 15,000 Arlington public school teachers. During her tenure as president of the teacher's union, Gant drew backlash over her COVID-19 policies.

One homeschool took to Twitter to expose the union after it sent a letter riddled with grammatical and typographical errors. [H/T Fox News.]

Ellen Gallery, a homeschooling mother of three who lives in the area, claimed that she and her kids had gone through the letter, correcting mistakes. The mother posted a picture of the letter with copious corrections, faulting AEA for leaving out words, adding unnecessary commas, confusing subject-verb agreement, and more.

One offending pair of sentences read, "The fire departments in are region are exemplifying domino outbreaks as well. APS employees are no different or above this trend, yet leadership prepares to send educators into situations that will make them sick." In the first sentence, Gant used "are" when she clearly meant to write "our." Gallery and her kids suggested "neither different nor above" for the second sentence.

The Virginia Education Association sent Fox News Digital a statement from Gant explaining the errors, sharing that the district sent out the draft instead of the final letter--as if the draft's grammar was not a reflection of the writer's grammatical acumen. 

Gant was arrested in Prince William County and taken to their Adult Detention Center and released on an unsecured bond.

Detectives are asking anyone with information about this case to call the Major Crimes Bureau at 703-246-7800.

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Virginia cops arrest 2 suspects in murder of married couple

Fairfax County, VA -- Police have arrested two young men suspected of killing a married couple, both military veterans and physicians, on Wednesday morning. They are facing a total of eight felony charges including murder in Springfield, Virginia.

D’Angelo Strand, 19, of Fort Washington, Maryland, and Ronnie Marshall, 20, were arrested Thursday, in connection with the death of Edward McDaniel Jr., 55, and his wife, Brenda McDaniel, 63, both of Springfield.

Police said that the men were co-workers of a relative of the victims.

Earlier Thursday, investigators said they had found a "vehicle of interest" connected to the case after a local resident called in a tip. At that time, they said they took an unnamed person of interest into custody. They said the vehicle was a key to their investigation and asked the community for help finding it. On Thursday around 7:30 a.m. they got a tip that the car was at a business in Lorton, VA.

The cops found the car and took the operator, Strand, into custody and charged him with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

At 2 p.m. police spotted Marshall in Alexandria and arrested him, charging him with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, just like they did with his buddy.

Law enforcement officials said that they believe the shooting on Wednesday was a "follow-up and related to the interactions Monday." Police Chief Kevin Davis said they know for certain that at least on of the two suspects was at the McDaniel home on Monday.

Davis said they believe the motive was a dispute and now they're trying to determine what it was about. 

Maj. Ed O’Carroll, bureau chief of Major Crimes Cyber and Forensics for Fairfax County police, said the investigation is ongoing. 

“As of this moment, we have not located the firearm, but we have a lot of work to do. I mentioned the vehicle that’s now in our possession. We got a lot of things to follow up on. We want that firearm … This case does not close with these two arrests and these multiple charges. In some aspects, it’s just beginning,” O’Carroll said.

Neither Strand nor Marshall are members of the NRA nor are they lawful owners of any firearms. The Second Amendment has nothing to do with this case, but the fact that All Lives Matter does.

NBC 5 political reporter Mary Ann Ahern made the initial allegation on Twitter, writing: “As ⁦ @chicagosmayor ⁩ reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews – only to Black or Brown journalists.”

Chicago PBS news anchor Paris Schultz responded: “I was told the same thing.”


I was told the same thing.

— Paris Schutz (@paschutz)

Chicago PBS political reporter said that she could “confirm” what Ahern was alleging.


I can confirm, alderman

— Heather Cherone (@HeatherCherone) May 18, 2021

Lightfoot’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire or Fox News.

Australian political commentator Rita Panahi responded to the allegations by writing on Twitter: “More ‘anti-racist’ racism. Almost amusing how regressive race-obsession is celebrated among the Left.”


More "anti-racist" racism. Almost amusing how regressive race-obsession is celebrated among the Left. https://t.co/VtzpQyfklg

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) May 19, 2021

“Racism in the name of wokeism is still racism,” another commentator said. Another added, “So wouldn’t that make her a racist?”

Progressive writer Zaid Jilani wrote: “Is she going to do some kinda DNA test to assure she upholds this rule?”


Is she going to do some kinda DNA test to assure she upholds this rule? https://t.co/9d7rXZTnCV

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 19, 2021

“It is unclear when such a practice was enacted and if it only applies to local reporters, particularly after her MSNBC appearance with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday,” Fox News reported. “During her MSNBC interview, Lightfoot told Ruhle she would ‘encourage’ Chicago residents to continue wearing masks despite the new CDC guidance allowing those with the coronavirus vaccine to go without them.”

“I know for me personally, I’m going to continue to wear a mask in public and I’m going to encourage others to do so,” Lightfoot told Ruhle. “We’ve got to make sure that people are continuing to follow the public health guidance that has gotten us this far, and masks, I think, are a big and important part of that.”

Lightfoot said on Tuesday afternoon that her decision to continue to encourage people to wear masks was not based on distrust of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“But I think their guidance last week regarding masks has people confused…We need clarification,” Lightfoot said. “We still have a long way to go to hit the critical mass (of vaccinations) or herd immunity. I don’t want people to have false confidence.”

“To say, ‘If you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask,’ that’s great. But what about all of the other people who are out there that aren’t vaccinated?” Lightfoot added. “There’s no way to know that. So I think for the time being, most people are gonna continue to wear masks outside of their homes.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Determines Who Interviews Her Based On Race, Local Reporters Claim

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