Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on January 4 arrested a criminal illegal immigrant who was arrested and released by a Virginia sheriff on suspicion of sexually assaulting a minor and producing child sexual abuse material, the agency said. announced on Monday.
The Fairfax County Sheriff's Office arrested the individual in July and charged him with having sexual knowledge of a 13- to 14-year-old child by force, possession of child sexual abuse material, and possession of child sexual abuse material. He was charged with creating a . Later that day, the Pacific Enforcement Response Center filed an immigration detainer against him at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center in Fairfax, Virginia, but the facility did not respond to the detainer and released the noncitizen without notifying ICE. did.
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“Fairfax County has refused to honor an ICE detainer's complaint against this Honduran non-national,” Eric Weiss, acting ICE field office deputy director, said in a statement Monday. “When ICE detainees are ignored by local authorities, the general public is put at risk. Unfortunately, this outcome is a serious threat to the sexual abuse of minors and child sexual abuse in Virginia.” It was that federal law enforcement officers were needlessly injured while prosecuting the arrest of a noncitizen accused of producing abusive material.”
During a recent arrest, the Honduran national assaulted a deportation officer, according to ICE.
The 21-year-old Honduran national sneaked into the United States as an unaccompanied minor and was eventually arrested by Border Patrol agents and filed for a future court date with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in January 2020. released him. , according to To ICE. The following month, he was released to live with his father in Alexandria, Virginia. (Related: Exclusive: Illegal immigrant deported four times for killing mother and son in drunk driving crash)
The Fairfax County Sheriff's Office did not respond to a request for comment.
The sheriff's office will not detain inmates past their release date “unless ICE's administrative request to detain the inmate is accompanied by a court-issued criminal detainer.” according to A note for 2018.
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