Overview
- ICE lodged a detainer for Luzvin Orvando Garcia Moran, who Arlington police jailed without bond after an alleged attempted rape early Sunday.
- DHS publicly urged Governor Abigail Spanberger and Arlington leaders to keep him in custody or transfer him to federal agents.
- The agency says Arlington court records show at least 25 prior charges since 2020, including assault and probation violations, and that he entered the U.S. unlawfully.
- Spanberger ended a cooperation pact with ICE earlier this year and has said detainers alone do not justify holding someone without a judge’s warrant.
- DHS framed the case as part of a wider public-safety fight over civil ICE holds, which are administrative requests many local jails decline without court orders.