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.
In the weeks following Minter’s Feb. 23 murder, ICE and the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the county’s only jail, have butted heads over which agency is responsible for allowing Jalloh to roam the streets in the first place, as both had him in their custody at some point in the past decade.
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