The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office has generated extensive controversy over the past few months because of its agreement with federal immigration officials that allows county jail inmates with immigration detainers to be held for up to 48 hours after their release date for pickup by immigration agents.
However, despite that cooperation between ICE and LCSO’s Corrections Division, the Sheriff’s Office has consistently maintained that deputies do not conduct field immigration enforcement and have said, in the past, that LCSO field operations personnel do not have access to immigration information. That includes statements by Lt. Col. Bob Mosier at a May 6 Board of Supervisors meeting, when he said that deputies would only find out about a person’s immigration status once they had been booked into the county jail and Homeland Security contacted LCSO.
New information from radio traffic monitored by Loudoun Now raises questions about that narrative, revealing several cases in which LCSO patrol deputies and dispatchers shared information on immigration warrants and in at least one case in which ICE was contacted about a detained subject…