On November 4, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested Victoria Sorocean in Los Angeles, California. Sorocean, a Moldovan national, is wanted in her home country for murder committed with premeditation and exceptional cruelty.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Sorocean was convicted in September 2013 along with an accomplice for intentionally murdering a victim in Chisinau, Moldova. The two reportedly beat their victim with a stick and electrical cable before throwing the person from a ninth-floor window. She received a 17-year prison sentence but fled to the United States to avoid serving time.
ICE previously arrested Sorocean on January 10, 2020, during the first Trump Administration. Following her arrest, she pursued several legal options to prevent removal from the U.S., including appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals and an asylum application.
In 2022, Sorocean was released into the United States under the Biden administration.
“It shocks the conscience that the Biden Administration released into America a cruel, violent illegal alien who tortured a human being, beat them with an electrical cable and a stick, and then threw her victim from a ninth-floor window,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “These are the types of barbaric criminal illegal aliens ICE is targeting every single day. 70% of all ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. This does not even include foreign fugitives like this convicted murderer. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, the world’s criminals are no longer welcome in the U.S.”
Sorocean will remain in ICE custody while removal proceedings continue.
DHS noted that about seventy percent of recent ICE arrests involve non-citizens who have been charged or convicted of crimes within the United States; this figure does not account for individuals wanted for crimes committed abroad.
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