On Wednesday, police in Fairfax County, Virginia arrested and charged an illegal alien with more than 30 previous arrests who has been in the U.S. for 14 years, despite a final order of removal, with the murder of 41 year-old Stephanie Minter.
Minter was murdered at a bus stop on Monday, February 23, two days before the illegal alien suspect’s arrest, the Fairfax County Police Department reports:
“Officers arrived on scene and located Stephanie Minter, 41, of Fredericksburg, in the bus stop shelter with multiple stab wounds to the upper body. Officers began performing life-saving measures until relieved by Fairfax County Fire and Rescue personnel. She was pronounced deceased on scene. Detectives from our Major Crimes Bureau responded to assume the investigation.
“Through surveillance footage and interviews, detectives identified Abdul Jalloh, 32, of no fixed address, as the last person seen with Minter. Jalloh was seen exiting the bus with Minter at Richmond Highway and Arlington Drive.”
On Tuesday, police arrested and transported Jalloh to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and charged with Petit Larceny, where he was held on no bond.
Then, on Wednesday, detectives determined Jalloh was responsible for the fatal stabbing of Stephanie Minter and obtained a warrant charging him with Second-Degree Murder. Jalloh remains held on no bond.
Later that day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer requesting Virginia not release Jalloh, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced, noting that that Jalloh is “a career criminal illegal alien”:
- More than 30 arrests.
- More than a dozen arrests in Northern Virginia alone, including charges of petty larceny and malicious wounding.
- An illegal alien from Sierra Leone who entered the U.S. illegally in 2012.
- No fixed address.
- Charged with petit larceny for an additional crime that occurred earlier in the day.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer against Jalloh in 2020.
Charges accumulated by Jalloh during his 14-year illegal presence in the U.S. include:
- Rape.
- Malicious wounding.
- Assault.
- Drug possession.
- Identity theft.
- Trespassing.
- Larceny.
- Firing a weapon.
- Contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
- Pick pocketing.
The illegal alien with no fixed address had been free to wander the streets of Virginia:
- Although a judge granted the final order of removal requested in 2020, he blocked ICE from returning Jalloh to his home country.
- In most of the charges against Jalloh in Virginia, the state’s prosecutors dropped the charges.
Newly-elected Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed an executive order mandating that local and state law enforcement are no longer required to cooperate with ICE, repealing an order from her Republican predecessor, Governor Glenn Youngkin.
“This illegal alien’s murder of an innocent, beautiful American woman came less than 24 hours before Governor Spanberger’s demonization of ICE law enforcement,” DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said, calling on Spanberger and Virginia's sanctuary politicians to “commit to not releasing this murderer and violent career criminal from their jail without notifying ICE.”
Fairfax County has a history of refusing to honor immigration detainers. In late 2025, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador allegedly killed a man just a day after a Fairfax County jail failed to honor an immigration detainer ICE had placed on him.
The Commonwealth Attorney for Fairfax County is Steve Descano, self-described as a “progressive prosecutor” on his purported personal X.com account. There have been two recall efforts waged against Descano since he assumed office in 2019.
Descano’s office had previously dropped violent crime charges against Jalloh.
Commonwealth Attorney Descano’s official government webpage boasts that “Under his leadership, the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney has stopped requesting cash bail.”
As a result, suspects charged with crimes are simply released on their own recognizance with no incentive to show up for court.
