Federal immigration officers in Baltimore say they have taken Frederick Muir, a Jamaican national with a prior first-degree murder conviction, into custody after a transfer from a Jessup correctional facility. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say Muir was turned over on an immigration detainer, already has a final order of removal, and will stay in federal custody while deportation logistics play out.
The arrest came to light through a brief report from
, which identified the detainee as Frederick Muir and said he was moved to ICE custody after being held at a Jessup facility. The station noted that ICE Baltimore provided an image and described Muir in its materials as a “criminal illegal alien.” That short post and the slim write-up remain the main public notice of the arrest so far.
How the pickup happened
ICE regularly relies on immigration detainers to shift people from local jails into federal custody when there is a removal order in place. The Howard County Department of Corrections lists the Howard County Detention Center in Jessup as a county facility that accepts ICE detainees, which lines up with the transfer described in the agency’s notice. When a local jail honors a detainer, physical custody moves to Enforcement and Removal Operations, or ERO Baltimore, which then handles processing and removal arrangements.
What ICE said
An earlier news release from…