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Updated · Fox News · Oct 1

ICE Rearrests Honduran Migrant on Child Sex Charges After Fairfax Ignored 2025 Detainer

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Oct 1

ICE Rearrests Honduran Migrant on Child Sex Charges After Fairfax Ignored 2025 Detainer

Q: After Fairfax County released Oscar Nunez, what allowed ICE to find and rearrest him during a targeted operation?

ICE was able to find and rearrest Oscar Nunez through a targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operation using the identifying and biographical information it already had from his earlier arrest and immigration records. The reporting does not say Fairfax County later helped ICE locate him after his release. Rather, DHS said ICE officers independently located him and arrested him on Sept. 15 during a targeted operation. The broader background provided with the case notes that, even when a local jail declines to honor a detainer, ICE can still use fingerprint, database, and other law-enforcement information-sharing systems to identify and track a person. In practical terms, Nunez’s prior booking by local authorities, combined with ICE’s existing immigration file on him, appears to have given federal officers enough information to locate him in the community and take him back into custody. He now remains in ICE detention pending immigration proceedings.

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Sept. 15 marked ICE’s arrest of Oscar Evaristo Nunez, a Honduran national accused in Virginia child sex crime cases, after Fairfax County had earlier released him instead of honoring a federal detainer.
Aug. 29, 2025, ICE lodged that detainer two days after Nunez was jailed on aggravated sexual battery involving children and alleged filming of an undressed minor without consent, but DHS said county officials freed him without notice.
Nunez, who DHS said entered the U.S. illegally near Arizona around September 2003, remains in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings.
The arrest has intensified a broader clash between the Trump administration and Virginia Democrats over sanctuary-style policies, with DHS criticizing Governor Abigail Spanberger even though she took office in January 2026, after the county release.