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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the arrest of a Moldovan illegal immigrant and convicted killer who tortured and threw a victim out of a ninth-floor window.
Victoria Sorocean was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Nov. 4 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after authorities learned she had been convicted of premeditated murder with exceptional cruelty in 2013, ICE told Fox News on Tuesday.
According to DHS, Sorocean and an accomplice tortured their victim inside an apartment in Chisinau, Moldova, beating the person with a stick and electrical cable before throwing the victim out a ninth-floor window.
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An ICE agent, left, and Victoria Sorocean, right, a convicted killer who tortured and threw a victim out of a ninth-floor window. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images; ICE )
She was sentenced to 17 years in prison but fled the country to avoid serving her sentence.
Sorocean was first arrested by ICE on Jan. 10, 2020, under the first Trump administration, but she later filed multiple legal appeals and asylum claims to delay removal, DHS said.
Officials said she was ultimately released back into the U.S. in 2022 under the Biden administration.
DHS said the case highlights the failures of the previous administration, which it said allowed millions of illegal aliens, including violent criminals and murderers like Sorocean, to roam free in American neighborhoods.
DHS slammed the Biden administration for releasing millions of illegal aliens, including violent criminals and murderers like Victoria Sorocean. (John Moore/Getty Images/Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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“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,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
“These are the types of barbaric criminal illegal aliens ICE is targeting every single day,” she added. “Seventy percent of all ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.”
This split shows the southern border wall and troops at the border. (Getty Images)
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“This does not even include foreign fugitives like this convicted murderer. Under President [Donald] Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem, the world’s criminals are no longer welcome in the U.S.,” McLaughlin said.
Sorocean will remain in ICE custody pending deportation proceedings, DHS said.