Overview
- ICE filed new hold requests this week for two Fairfax County murder suspects and urged Virginia leaders not to release them, using detainers that ask local jails to hold or alert ICE before an inmate is freed.
- Fairfax police arrested 38-year-old Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy after a Sunday stabbing in Bailey’s Crossroads, charged him with second-degree murder, and jailed him without bond as DHS said he entered the U.S. illegally at an unknown place and time.
- Misael Lopez Gomez, 28, was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder and felony child abuse after his three-month-old daughter died, and DHS said he admitted crossing the border illegally in July 2023; he remains held without bond.
- DHS said three of four defendants in Fairfax County murder cases this year entered the U.S. illegally, a statistic now fueling a dispute over detainers as Governor Abigail Spanberger’s early-term policy curtailed routine state and local cooperation with ICE and her office has cited a judicial-warrant standard that DHS says does not apply to civil holds.
- Oversight is ramping up, with a House Judiciary subcommittee inviting Fairfax’s prosecutor and sheriff to testify on April 15 about how limits on honoring ICE detainers may affect public safety.