WASHINGTON (7News) — ICE agents arrested an illegal Guatemalan immigrant previously convicted of a federal firearms crime and charged with abduction, strangulation, and assault on a woman in Fairfax County.

7News was the first to report that Wilmer Ramos-Giron, received a plea deal from Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano’s office that dropped his felony charge for allegedly strangling a woman in exchange for a guilty plea for brandishing a machete/blade in January, which is a misdemeanor, according to court documents 7News obtained.

Originally, the charges Ramos Giron faced in January 2025 were felony abduction by force, felony strangulation, and misdemeanor assault on a family member, which would have been a sentence of up to 15-16 years in prison, court documents showed.

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Due to the generous plea deal, Ramos-Giron only served around two months at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and was released back into the community in March by the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office.

Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid chooses to require ICE to obtain a judicial warrant to arrest people who are in the U.S. illegally. She also signed a policy that instructs her deputies to release inmates who are in the U.S. illegally to the street on their scheduled release date without notification to ICE.

In the case of Ramos-Giron, officers with ICE Washington, D.C., and VSP arrested him on April 24 in Chantilly. Ramos-Giron remains in ICE custody.

“Wilmer Ramos-Giron represents a significant threat to our Virginia residents,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Washington, D.C. Field Office Director Russell Hott. “He has displayed a blatant disregard for our immigration laws, and more importantly, for the safety and well-being of our community. He is a violent and recidivist threat to public safety that ICE Washington, D.C., cannot tolerate. Regardless of the obstacles placed in our way, we remain committed to prioritizing public safety. The men and women of ICE Washington, D.C. will continue to arrest and remove criminal alien threats from our Washington, D.C. and Virginia neighborhoods, and ensure their victims receive the justice they so rightly deserve.”

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According to ICE, Ramos-Giron illegally entered the United States at an unknown location, on an unknown date, and without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.

On Feb. 17, 2012, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Chantilly arrested Ramos-Giron for brandishing a firearm. Later that day, ICE Washington, D.C., issued Ramos-Giron a notice to appear before a Justice Department immigration judge.

On March 29, 2012, the DOJ immigration judge ordered Ramos-Giron removed from the United States to Guatemala. ICE removed Ramos-Giron from the United States on April 19, 2012.

Ramos-Giron illegally re-entered the United States at an unknown location, on an unknown date, and without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.

Officers with ICE Washington, D.C. arrested Ramos-Giron April 16, 2019, at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center pursuant to a federal warrant for alien in possession of a firearm. Officers issued Ramos-Giron an order to reinstate a previous removal order.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia court convicted Ramos-Giron on July 12, 2019, of alien in possession of a firearm and sentenced him to nine months in prison.

ICE again removed Ramos-Giron on Jan. 21, 2020, from the United States to Guatemala following his release from federal prison.

Ramos-Giron illegally re-entered the United States at an unknown location, on an unknown date, and without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.

On Jan. 27, 2025, Fairfax County police arrested Ramos-Giron and charged him with felony abduction by force, assault on a family member and felony strangulation causing injury. Later that day, ICE Washington, D.C., filed an immigration detainer against Ramos-Giron with the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office; however, the detention center refused to honor the detainer and released Ramos-Giron back into the community without notifying ICE.

Fairfax County has rejected more than 1,100 detainers in under two years, the third most in the country. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors also has a Trust Policy, which prevents the police department from sharing information with ICE.