Federal immigration authorities are begging cops in Virginia not to release an illegal-alien murder suspect accused of stabbing a woman multiple times.
Local authorities had previously arrested the goon almost three dozen times.
While not releasing him might seem beyond question, that is no longer clear in far-left, Democrat-controlled Virginia. Governor Abigail Spanberger reversed predecessor Glenn Youngkin’s order for state cops to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in enforcing federal immigration law.
And right after Spanberger banned such cooperation, ICE arrested an illegal convicted of rape.
Underlining the peril in which illegals place Virginians, in January, ICE bagged an MS-13 terror-gang associate in Strasburg, a small-town in the Shenandoah Valley. The MS-13 problem is at least 22 years old.
From Sierra Leone
Citing Fairfax County cops, the Department of Homeland Security reported that “Stephanie Minter, 41, of Fredericksburg was found dead at a local bus stop with multiple stab wounds to the upper body.”
Suspect: Abdul Jalloh, 32, of Sierra Leone. Cops quickly collared him and charged him with murder.
As is typical with Third World illegals, murder is often on their agenda. Jalloh jumped the border in 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported:
His criminal history includes more than 30 arrests for charges of rape, malicious wounding, assault, drug possession, identity theft, trespassing, larceny, firing a weapon, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and pick pocketing.
ICE previously lodged a detainer against Jalloh in 2020, and he was granted a final order of removal by a judge who found he could be removed to any country other than Sierra Leone. This case illustrated the importance of third country removals to get criminal illegal aliens out of the U.S.
“We are calling on Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and Virginia’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this murderer and violent career criminal from their jail without notifying ICE,” said Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “This illegal alien’s murder of an innocent, beautiful American woman came less than 24 hours before Governor Spanberger’s demonization of ICE law enforcement.”
As The New American reported last month, Spanberger quickly moved to protect illegal aliens, rapists, murderers, and other illegals from deportation. Yet no sooner did she publish her anti-ICE executive order than ICE arrested Shayan Kahhal, an illegal Iranian whose “criminal history includes charges for strongarm rape, strongarm sodomy — woman, strongarm sodomy — boy and strongarm sodomy — girl.”
He was whiling away the days in Norfolk, Virginia, likely waiting to rape again, if not murder his next victim.
As for the arrest of Jalloh, “Fairfax County has a history of refusing to honor immigration detainers,” DHS noted:
In late 2025, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador killed a man just a day after a Fairfax County jail failed to honor an immigration detainer ICE had placed on him.
That estimable individual was Salvadoran Biden “migrant” Marvin Fernando Morales-Ortez.
“Following his arrest for assault and brandishing a firearm, ICE immediately lodged an arrest detainer on September 14, 2025,” DHS reported:
Fairfax sanctuary politicians REFUSED to honor it and instead RELEASED this criminal illegal alien back into Virginia neighborhoods.
This serial criminal has prior arrests for aggravated assault of a police officer, larceny, and disorderly conduct.
He illegally entered the United States September 18, 2016, with his mother near Hidalgo, Texas. Morales-Ortez was released into the country by the Obama administration. In 2022, the Biden administration dismissed his immigration proceedings and marked him as a non-enforcement priority.
On December 17, the day after Fairfax County refused to honor the detainer, DHS alleges, Morales-Ortez shot and killed a man inside his home in Reston.
Shenandoah Valley No Longer Safe?
The arrest on January 24 of MS-13 terror-gang associate Cristian Medrano-Umanzor, 34, suggests that the once-safe Shenandoah Valley is no longer a place where one would leave the front door unlocked, or the kids outside alone.
Not that Spanberger will care.
Medrano-Umanzor jumped the border at an unknown time and place, then applied for temporary protected status in January 2005, ICE reported, which was OK’d in 2006.
“Between June 2010 and July 2016, Medrano-Umanzor was arrested for multiple crimes, including the possession and distribution of narcotics, failure to obey a court order and failure to appear,” ICE continued.
In April 2018, he was ordered removed; he was deported that May to El Salvador. Like so many illegals from Mexico and Latin America, Medrano-Umanzor is a mulish fellow. He refused to stay in El Salvador. The Border Patrol arrested him in September 2019, after which he was convicted of re-entering and deported again in 2020. He entered the country illegally again during the Biden administration.
MS-13 has been operating in the valley since at least 2003; that’s when cops learned just how much the gang had penetrated small-town Virginia. That year, an MS-13 member named Brenda Paz was found slashed to death near Woodstock. Her murderers stabbed her 16 times and nearly severed her head.
Paz had made the fatal error of agreeing to testify against her gang compatriots.
“The killing shook Shenandoah in ways that can be hard for urbanites to comprehend,” The New York Times reported:
For weeks following the discovery of [Brenda Paz], her murder was the talk of the towns along Route 11 in Virginia — from the dairy cooperative in Strasburg, to the C.E. Thompson & Son hardware store in Edinburg, to the old-fashioned lunch counter at the Walton & Smoot pharmacy in Woodstock, across Main Street from the sheriff’s office. This sort of thing simply did not happen in a place where many families trace their ancestries in the region to before the Civil War, where people still take the time to stop in on their neighbors, where few people say they feel the need to lock their front doors. This was not Washington, 80 miles and a world away to the east. Folks here tended to worry more about copperheads and rattlesnakes than about knife-wielding murderers.
Residents might just worry that with Spanberger in office, knife-wielding MS-13 members will remain a greater threat than venomous snakes.
