Illegal Alien Charged with VA Town’s First ‘Stranger Rape’ in 12 Years, 4 Days After His Release
Gov. Youngkin: “I am heartsick for this victim and outraged that local Fairfax County officials recklessly release violent illegal immigrants who should have been prosecuted and deported.”
A Herndon, Virginia, woman was raped by an illegal alien last Monday night shortly before 9 p.m. while walking on a popular, and very public, running trail. It should come as no surprise that the offender has a history of sex crimes. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard said, “This is the only stranger rape that we have had in the town in my more than 12 years as chief of police.”
“What is disturbing is the number of times this individual has been arrested and released. He has continued to reoffend and his behavior has escalated to a rape in a very public area in our town last night,” DeBoard added.
Reporting from Herndon on Tuesday, Fox 5 DC correspondent Josh Rosenthal said the victim eventually got away and minutes later, Honduran national Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, 31, who is in the U.S. illegally, was arrested in a nearby parking lot. According to Rosenthal, Romero “has a documented history of both sexual assault and exposures in the region, beginning in 2022.”
Rosenthal noted that the Washington and Old Dominion Trail runs right through the center of the town and gets very busy in the evening hours. “We’re talking families, people exercising … walking their dogs. And that’s a big part of why community members are so concerned.”
[Note: Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia. It is located approximately 25 miles west of Washington, D.C. ]
The New York Post reported that Romero had been released from jail only four days before this incident. Authorities told the Post that Romero had been “freed on Nov. 14 after serving just half his 50-day indecent exposure sentence due to ‘good behavior.'”
He is currently being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center as he awaits a preliminary hearing.
In a Sunday statement, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin wrote:
“I am heartsick for this victim and outraged that local Fairfax County officials recklessly release violent illegal immigrants who should have been prosecuted and deported. This is a dereliction of their most basic duty to keep people safe. Prioritizing violent illegal immigrants over the safety of Fairfax residents is unacceptable. Virginia is not a sanctuary state. When President Trump takes office, the political posturing will end, and localities will cooperate with ICE to protect Virginians.”
I am heartsick for this victim and outraged that local Fairfax County officials recklessly release violent illegal immigrants who should have been prosecuted and deported. This is a dereliction of their most basic duty to keep people safe. Prioritizing violent illegal immigrants… https://t.co/sqKUqbsGeg
— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) November 24, 2024
According to the Post:
Romero’s sex crime spree started in 2018, when Herndon PD received a report that the perv fondled a 14-year-old. That triggered a Fairfax County sex crimes investigation, which uncovered that he’d also exposed himself to a 10-year-old and 13-year-old the year prior, per police records obtained by the Washington Post.
But the victims’ parents were loath to talk with police, and the investigation closed with no charges.
His first arrest came four years later, when he choked a Herndon cop responding to another one of his deviant acts — this time, smacking a woman’s behind at a local restaurant.
Herndon police charged him with felony assault on a law enforcement officer, but the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney downgraded the charge to a misdemeanor assault in exchange for a guilty plea.
His most recent stint in the slammer was due to an Oct. 19 indecent exposure incident.
Unfortunately, stories of rapes and even murders of U.S. citizens at the hands of illegal aliens are becoming way too familiar. In this case, the perpetrator arrived in the country before President Joe Biden opened up our southern border in 2021. But the Biden-Harris administration’s soft-on-crime policies have been a boon for repeat offenders like Romero, who should have been deported years ago.
The results of this administration’s failure to enforce U.S. immigration laws and the leniency of Democratic district attorneys and judges, have been devastating for the country.
And Democrats know it. If these policies were so popular with voters, why did Vice President Kamala Harris run away from these positions when she became the nominee? The answer is, that after four years, Americans have seen, first hand, the human tragedy that results from such recklessness.
On Sunday, Prof. Jacobson reported the results of a CBS News/You Gov poll which found that 57% of participants approve of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport all aliens who are in the U.S. illegally. Just 43% disapprove of the program.
We need to take our country back. We’ve come dangerously close to losing it.
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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Looks like a caveman, acts like a caveman, needs to be deported like an illegal alien.
Maybe after a bit of blunt force “gender affirmation” care….
If it looks like a caveman, walks like a caveman, and rapes like a caveman, it’s an illegal alien.
He deserves the death penalty.
Completely remove his ability to rape, give him a few years in prison, then execute him.
Unfortunately, I don’t know the particulars of the crime. But, if his victim has a husband then he should be sentenced to spend 20 minutes tied up in a room while her husband gets a baseball bat.
She certainly has a father…. or uncle…. brother?
That mugshot looks like Hervé Villechaize had a child and that child turned out to be a rapist. If you don’t know who Hervé Villechaize, ask your parents.
Da plane
Da plane
Absolutely the first reaction I had when I saw that photo.
Paging Mr.. Roark… come take charge of your naughty sidekick…
All these illegals are turning us into Ceti Alpha 5.
That’s hilarious and I didn’t see that until I went back to look. Your absolutely right.
The ‘pro-women’ Democrats are even more pro-illegals. Gotta have priorities.
Diversity Uber Allies.
“Diversity Uber Allies”.
Sorry, you misspelled… Diversity drives an Uber over its Allies
Recall how recently Dems in VA were covering up r*pes by trannies in their schools. Sick puppies.
Per Harris, “a stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet.”
The word isn’t “met” anymore.
If he goes to the big house this time, the boys there don’t like rapists and sex offenders..
I find great difficulty having any empathy. My IDGAF meter is pegged at this point.
No JR, a pegged meter is not the same as you getting pegged, so no comment is necessary.
Trim the bloated fed gub’t and my native home of Va might just go back to the good guys.
Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano, a Democrat, was re-elected fall of 2023. The sheriff, and local Republicans were backing his challenger in the Democratic primary, but Descano won. Unfortunately Republicans didn’t have a candidate running. Descano is worse than useless.
GOP in Fairfax has not covered itself in glory.
Is it me or does TFG look like Tatoo from Fantasy Island?
An example of why local elections are so important. When local County DA, Sheriff, District/Circuit Judges, Mayors, City Council, County Commissioners and school boards refuse to prioritize public safety there’s gotta be a concerted effort to create an effective pushback locally to unseat them.
Time was a rapport,chomp,pedo did last in prision. Send him to Angola or pelican bay. Gen pop. Post c file
This is why leftists must be purged from power. Their policies destroy life, liberty, and property.
“This is the only stranger rape that we have had in the town in my more than 12 years as chief of police.”
That isn’t the bragging point you think it is, with that modifier on “rape.”
But the [14yo, 13yo, and 10yo] victims’ parents were loath to talk with police
Hmmm, wonder why that was. Was it their ideology or that maybe they weren’t here legally, either?
smacking a woman’s behind at a local restaurant
There’s a day when no police would have needed to be involved in that one. There would have been some stomping, then he gets tossed out the door. And that might have been more deterrent, in the long run, than any legal proceeding.
but the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney downgraded the [felony assault] charge to a misdemeanor assault in exchange for a guilty plea.
And, THERE. IT. IS. The first problem with the revolving door justice system – lazy (or “overworked”) prosecutors who ensure that no criminal pays for his actual crimes, but some lesser subset, so they don’t have to take the time to go to court and convict someone. It doesn’t matter if you throw the book at someone if it’s nothing more than a pamphlet to start with.
But the Biden-Harris administration’s soft-on-crime policies
If you think this was a Biden-induced problem, you’re sorely mistaken. This has been going on for decades, just getting worse with each Dem administration. 0bama’s admin caused a lot of these problems – illegals were a problem that helped Trump get elected the first time. The Biden admin just accelerated things.
commie attorneys and a police chief named maggie What could go wrong?
As in the past, nothing is done to the government officials who allowed this to happen. Because of that over many incidents, the officials should be charged with assessor to rape. The multiple incidents provide the “intentional” means for this charge.
I think this is a good deterrent.
1. get a very large stump
2. build a very small very unstable shack over it.
3, take offender nail his sack to stump
4. give him a dull rusty razor
5 set shed on fire and wait.
one way or another he will never rape again.
“It’s a price we have to pay.”
“we” being someone you’ve never met and wouldn’t speak to if you had.