Fairfax County, a sanctuary jurisdiction in northern Virginia, disregarded a federal detention request filed in 2023 against the illegal immigrant now accused of stabbing an innocent woman to death, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the Washington Examiner this week.
The revelation marks a new development in the dispute between ICE and Fairfax County, which have laid out dueling accounts explaining their previous encounters with Abdul Jalloh, a foreign national from West Africa charged with the murder of Virginia mother Stephanie Minter.
Minter was found fatally stabbed at a Fairfax County bus stop last month. Jalloh, the primary murder suspect, is a serial stabber who was let out of the county jail dozens of times since he illegally entered the United States in 2012, according to immigration authorities, and was resettled in the Fairfax County area…