EXCLUSIVE TO FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the capture of a notorious Moldovan national, Victoria Sorocean, who was involved in a brutal murder and now faces justice after evading authorities. Sorocean is accused of torturing a victim before throwing them from a ninth-floor window.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in Los Angeles detained Sorocean on November 4, after discovering her 2013 conviction for premeditated murder marked by exceptional cruelty, ICE reported to Fox News on Tuesday.
The gruesome crime took place in Chisinau, Moldova, where Sorocean and an accomplice inflicted torture on their victim using a stick and electrical cable, eventually pushing the individual out of a high-rise window, according to DHS.
Sentenced to 17 years behind bars, Sorocean managed to escape Moldova, eluding authorities eager to enforce her prison term.
ICE initially apprehended Sorocean on January 10, 2020, during the Trump administration. However, she managed to delay her deportation through various legal appeals and asylum petitions, as noted by DHS.
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)
“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)
“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.
