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.