Random News and Notes 19 December

More weirdness is coming out of the Brown shooting. The shooter has apparently been found dead.  48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese citizen, was found dead of a ‘self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage facility in New Hampshire. It is now believed Valente also killed the MIT professor in Brookline MA last week.

The break came via a reddit post from a homeless guy living in the basement of the Brown engineering building of all things. It seems “John” is a Brown grad, a genius, and the University allowed him to sleep in the engineering building. He had an encounter with the shooter beforehand and followed him around. “John” was the person in the first images that the Providence PD released.

All of this stinks to high heaven. As I said yesterday, my Spidey senses are tingling, and not in a good way.

If you live in Virginia, get ready for more things like this: A Reston resident was killed by an illegal who was released from custody despite having an active ICE detainer. Yeah, you read that right. Fairfax county officials released a violent felony who immediately – less than 4 hours – killed someone.

. . .Marvin Morales-Ortez, a citizen of El Salvador, was arrested yesterday following a manhunt after a man was found shot & killed inside of a home in Reston, VA.
Morales-Ortez had been in Fairfax County jail while facing charges for brandishing a gun and assaulting & inuring someone, but he was released on Tuesday when the case was dropped. ICE says their detainer to transfer him to their custody was ignored by Fairfax County.
After his release on Tuesday, Fairfax County Police say that an emergency custody order was obtained for Morales-Ortez due to mental health/danger concerns. They looked for him to take him into custody, but they were unable to find him. He is accused of committing the murder just hours later.
Morales has a prior rap sheet showing he’s been charged with at least seven crimes in Fairfax County since 2020.
ICE statement: “On December 17th, Marvin Fernando Morales-Ortez, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador with prior criminal charges for assaulting law enforcement/first responders allegedly gunned down a Virginia resident in Reston, Virginia. Fairfax County FAILED the victim by refusing to work with ICE and releasing this criminal alien onto Virginia streets instead of safely into ICE custody. If Fairfax County would have simply worked to uphold our nation’s laws, then this tragedy may have never happened.”

We need to find a way to hold these officials responsible for their actions.

You will remember the name Hannah Dugan, though you may not remember why you know the name. She was the judge in Milwaukee county that tried to spirit an illegal away from ICE. Her trial for felony obstruction and a misdemeanor count of concealing an individual to prevent arrest was held over the last few days. A verdict was delivered yesterday. She was acquitted of the concealment charge and convicted of obstruction.

Dugan now faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the felony obstruction charge. A sentencing date has not been set.