Cops in a lefty Washington, DC, suburb repeatedly warned prosecutors {that a} serial legal unlawful immigrant was a hazard to the neighborhood and needed to be locked up — months earlier than he allegedly stabbed a neighborhood mother to loss of life at a bus cease.
Fairfax, Virginia, police raised the alarm about Abdul Jalloh — who has been arrested greater than 30 occasions — as early as Might 2025 in emails to the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Legal professional, WJLA-Information present in a bombshell report Wednesday.
“I needed to carry Mr. Jalloh’s launch to your consideration,” a police main emailed the prosecutor’s workplace in November 2025, the outlet stated.
“As a result of Mr. Jalloh is without doubt one of the repeat (and violent) offenders we mentioned after we met. I needed to get your background on why he’s out so quickly and ask if his prior suspended sentence (of I consider 5 years) was pursued by your workplace?
“Sadly, primarily based on… quite a few dealings with him, it’s not a query of if, however reasonably when he’ll maliciously wound (or worse) once more. My position of maintaining the general public secure, prompts me to observe up on his standing,” the e-mail stated.
That warning adopted an August 2025 e mail from one other high-ranking cop, who famous that Jalloh had “over 100 involvements” with the Fairfax County Police Division, WJLA reported.
“JALLOH’s offenses started with home violence incidents and escalated to assaulting different victims and threats with weapons (knives),” the message stated.
“He has been concerned in a number of stabbing incidents with victims figuring out him because the offender in these instances,” the e-mail stated.
“This yr JALLOH has been the offender in a malicious wounding the place he stabbed a person in Might 2025, wherein he obtained a bond on July 31, 2025 — three weeks later, this incident occurred the place he assaulted an older male and stomped his head into the bottom.”
Jalloh’s rap sheet within the county dates to 2014, when he was charged with assaulting a member of the family — the primary of dozens of busts on drug, larceny, trespassing, malicious wounding and rape prices.
The US Division of Homeland Safety, which stated it lodged an immigration retainer for Jalloh as early as 2020, slammed “Virginia’s sanctuary politicians.”
It’s not clear when Jalloh was final launched from jail.
His newest alleged crime got here on Feb. 23, when police stated he “hacked” 41-year-old mother Stephanie Minter to loss of life at a Fairfax County bus cease — which lastly obtained him locked up with out bail.
Fairfax County says it’s not a sanctuary jurisdiction, however high Republicans on the Home Judiciary Committee slammed Commonwealth’s Legal professional Steve Descano and Sheriff Stacey Kincaid for failing to cooperate with ICE on the arrest of unlawful migrants.
Federal immigration officers lodged a detainer towards Jalloh in 2020, however he was by no means held by native authorities to be turned over the the feds.
In actual fact, in additional than a dozen of Jalloh’s prior arrests, prosecutors listed the instances as “nolle prosequi” — which interprets to unwilling to prosecute.
A spokesperson for Descano advised The Put up this week that the instances stay open to future prosecution, however stated Jalloh’s penchant for concentrating on unreliable homeless victims made it arduous to pursue the instances.
“Sadly, the defendant on this case additionally had a historical past of choosing victims with no fastened tackle – among the most susceptible members of our neighborhood,” workplace rep Laura Birnbaum stated.
In a number of instances, she stated prosecutors “had been unable to maneuver ahead with prosecution as a result of we didn’t have victims’ participation or presence at courtroom hearings, and profitable prosecution would have trusted sufferer testimony.”
In an e mail Wednesday responding to the WJLA report, Birnbaum stated, “Our workplace was conscious of Jalloh’s legal historical past and shared police issues about potential future dangerousness – that’s the reason our Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Legal professional personally dealt with these instances.
“Prosecutors will usually discover many various pathways to profitable prosecution, however on the finish of the day our choices are constrained by what testimony is out there and what’s legally permissible and practicable in Fairfax courts,” she stated.
