Names of Criminal Aliens Arlington Released Instead of Transferring to ICE

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va. — A House Judiciary interim staff report released Sept. 21, 2026, names specific criminal aliens whom the Arlington County Sheriff’s Office released back into northern Virginia instead of transferring them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — outcomes the committee ties directly to Democrat County Board sanctuary rules.

According to the House Judiciary interim staff report, from January 2025 through May 2026 ACSO received 310 ICE detainers and honored only two. Both honored detainers came with judicial warrants. Forty-two of the people ICE sought already had criminal convictions. The Democrat Trust Policy’s warrant requirement, the report says, made routine cooperation impossible for typical state-crime custody cases.

Among those released to the community rather than to immigration authorities, the committee lists Ricardo Castro Ramirez, charged with assault on police, two counts of felony robbery by force, public intoxication, and destruction of property. Staff cite ICE information provided to the committee plus Arlington’s Sept. 25, 2025 crime report and local coverage of the arrest.

Also listed is Soukouly Mohammad Hashi, whom the report says Arlington County Police arrested three times and Fairfax County Police arrested 19 times, with pending charges in Maryland reflected in Maryland Judiciary Case Search records the committee cites. Repeat local arrests across two major northern Virginia jurisdictions, House staff argue, illustrate why declining ICE detainers is not a one-off paperwork dispute.

Johslin Ariel Lopez-Rodas appears next: charged with felony possession of a firearm, felony possession of a controlled substance, felony possession of a firearm while intoxicated, and driving while intoxicated, according to ICE information in the report. Firearm and intoxication charges in local custody are exactly the kind of cases federal immigration officers use detainers to resolve safely inside a jail, the committee notes — before release forces street arrests.

Beyond the named defendants, the Democrat Trust Policy also barred cooperation for other aliens who are or have been in ACSO custody, ICE told the committee: a criminal alien gang member with a 57-page criminal history including multiple felony charges for robbery and malicious wounding; a criminal alien charged with felony hit-and-run that led to injury or death; and a criminal alien charged with abduction and assault on a family member.

House Republicans present those case sketches as the human face of the 0.65 percent detainer-honoring rate. Democrat Board policy did not merely “limit information sharing.” It required local custody officers to return people ICE had already flagged as removable — including people with prior convictions and people facing violent or firearm felonies — to the same communities where they were arrested.

The interim report’s executive summary links the custody releases to Democrat prosecutorial leniency under Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti. When foreign-national defendants are underprosecuted or steered away from immigration-triggering convictions, and when the sheriff cannot honor detainers without a judicial warrant the federal system rarely can produce for state crimes, the result is a conveyor belt back onto Virginia streets.

Committee oversight since January 2026 has reached 40 officials in 13 sanctuary jurisdictions. Arlington is the first deep dive in this interim series, and staff say the pattern is not unique: Democrat sanctuary doctrine prioritizes shielding illegal alien criminals from removal over the safety of law-abiding residents. The named Arlington releases, they write, show what that doctrine looks like in a single northern Virginia county’s jail logs.

All Virginia News is reporting these names and charges as the House Judiciary Committee presented them from ICE and local records. The committee’s larger claim is political as well as factual: Democrat County Board Trust Policy and Democrat non-cooperation rules produced these releases. Changing the outcomes, under that framing, requires changing the Democrat policies that caused them.

Email the Arlington County Sheriff:
Jose Quiroz, sheriff@arlingtonva.us,

Email Parisa Dehghani-Tafti at:

Parisa Dehghani-Tafti: CWA_info@arlingtonva.us