The Justice Department said that evidence reviewed by the FBI showed that a purported letter from the late Jeffrey Epstein to convicted child molester Larry Nassar was &#8220;clearly fake.&#8221; 
The 2019 letter, which was released on Tuesday as part of the latest Epstein <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-drops-30000-more-epstein-docs-that-include-accusations-against-trump?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=DOJ+Drops+30%2C000+More+Epstein+Docs+That+Include+Accusations+Against+Trump">document drop</a>, included comments about Epstein taking the “short road home” and &#8220;our president&#8221; liking young girls. After the letter went viral, the Justice Department said the FBI would investigate its authenticity before later announcing it was not genuine. 
The FBI determined the letter to be fake, citing several inconsistencies: the handwriting did not appear to match Epstein’s; it was postmarked in Virginia three days after Epstein was found dead in a New York jail cell; and it lacked required information for outgoing federal jail mail. The letter did not include Epstein’s inmate number or housing unit, as is standard.
“There has been lots of sensationalism and even outright lies these past few days about the ‘Epstein Files.’ But let’s separate fact from fiction. Document production is just that. We produce documents, and sometimes this can result in releasing fake or false documents because they simply are in our possession because the law requires this,” <a href="https://x.com/DAGToddBlanche/status/2003612982161371186">said</a> Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. 
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“Case in point: the so-called Epstein Nassar letter is clearly FAKE &#8211; wrong handwriting, wrong return address, and postmarked three days after Epstein died. Fake videos of Epstein in his cell. Photos with no explanation. Sensational tales and lies by random people,” Blanche added. “These are not reality. We will continue to produce every document required by law. Let’s not let internet rumor engines outrun the facts.”
The letter was received at the federal prison where Nassar was being held and then flagged for the FBI. Nassar was convicted of sexually abusing young girls while being a doctor at Michigan State University and the trainer for the United States women’s Olympic gymnastics team.
“As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing … our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls,” the letter reads. 
Around 30,000 documents related to Epstein were released by the Justice Department on Tuesday. The document release came after President Donald Trump signed a bill last month that mandated the department to release all the Epstein files. 
Trump has characterized questions about the case as a Democrat “hoax” meant to distract from his administration’s success. There has been no credible evidence that implicates Trump in any of Epstein’s misdeeds.

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The Department of Justice failed to foolproof some of the redactions made to the Epstein files, leading to some unredacted versions of documents appearing online.
Some people have <a href="https://x.com/flyosity/status/2003487819587821613">discovered</a> that the redactions, which the Justice Department says have been made to protect victims, can be undone or worked around through Photoshop or by simply copying and pasting the text to a new document. Unredacted versions of some documents began to appear online after the department released a fresh tranche of an estimated 30,000 more pages.
In one redacted file, the blacked-out portion pertains to how the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associates allegedly obtained young victims for sexual abuse, according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media">The Guardian</a>.
“Between September 2015 and June 2019, Indyke signed (FAC) for over $400,000 made payable to young female models and actresses, including a former Russian model who received over $380,000 through monthly payments of $8,333 made over a period of more than three and a half years until the middle of 2019,” says one redacted portion from a civil case in the Virgin Islands.
Other sections from the civil case detail how Epstein himself paid off or threatened victims to keep them from speaking to authorities.
“Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse, conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct,” one file says.
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“Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct,” it continues.
The Justice Department announced its latest batch of Epstein file releases on Tuesday. The release of the files, mandated under the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed last month, has sparked more controversy as the records have revealed photos of famous acquaintances of Epstein, such as former president Bill Clinton, around the disgraced financier.
President Donald Trump has also appeared at times in the files. The president has long maintained innocence in Epstein’s schemes, and none of the files released have suggested that Trump was involved in alleged misconduct.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested more “worst of the worst” illegal aliens this week as Americans prepare to celebrate Christmas.
Those arrested on Monday included illegals convicted of sex crimes, human trafficking, and assault. The arrests come as the Trump administration is looking to increase deportations before Christmas and offering a $3,000 stipend and free flight home for those who choose to self-deport.
“This Christmas season, Americans can rejoice that these criminal illegal aliens are off their streets,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire. “Just yesterday, ICE arrested convicted sex abusers, violent assailants, and human traffickers. Our ICE law enforcement delivered the best gift for all Americans this year: safer neighborhoods.”
According to DHS, those arrested included:
<blockquote>-Armando Meza-Arango, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of burglary habitation with intent of sex offense and indecent exposure in Sterling County, Texas.
-Jesus Bautista-Mendiola, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of felony sexual battery in Columbus, Ohio.
-Jovanne Heath, an illegal alien from Jamaica convicted of robbery and assault in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
-Agustin Perez-Otero, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury or death, and felony possession of methamphetamine in Kuna, Idaho.
-Ismael Arroyo, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of alien smuggling and possession with intent to distribute marijuana in Laredo, Texas.</blockquote>
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Over the past two weeks, ICE arrested over 1,000 illegal aliens while <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/22/us-news/ice-rounds-up-over-1000-illegal-immigrants-during-two-week-operation-to-honor-laken-riley/">conducting</a> an operation in honor of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered while out on a job by an illegal alien from Venezuela. The arrests were conducted under the authorization of the Laken Riley Act, which was signed by President Donald Trump in January. The law requires federal officials to arrest non-citizens accused of violent and theft-related crimes in the United States.
“We can never bring Laken back, but we can do everything in our power to bring these heinous criminals to justice. I am so proud of what our brave men and women of ICE have done to remove these criminals from America’s streets,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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A longtime custodian at Brown University said he alerted a security guard after seeing a suspicious man walking around campus at least 10 times in the weeks leading up to the mass shooting on December 13.
Derek Lisi told the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/metro/brown-custodian-saw-shooting-suspect/">Boston Globe</a> on Sunday that 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, who killed two students and wounded nine others, was peering into classrooms and pacing the college&#8217;s hallways weeks before his attack. Lisi said Valente was walking around the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building at Brown, where on December 13, the gunman opened fire, killing 19-year-old Ella Cook and 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov as they studied.
“He’d been casing that place for weeks,” Lisi said, adding, “I knew there was something off with him.&#8221;
Lisi said that he notified a staff member of a private firm he believed was working as a security guard about a suspicious person on two different occasions, adding that the staff member did not investigate. Brown uses Event Staffing Services, a private firm that provides security on campus. Event Staffing Services confirmed that one of its employees received a report of a suspicious person in December, but added that it is not responsible for investigating such reports, according to the Globe.
In the weeks before the shooting, the suspicious man was especially interested in room 166, according to Lisi. Room 166 is where the gunman shot multiple students days later.
“I thought it was someone trying to steal something,” Lisi said. “Every time he saw me, I think he thought I was security, because he would always walk away.&#8221;
Lisi said he recognized the suspicious man who had been walking around campus in the photos shared by police during the manhunt for the shooter. Providence, Rhode Island, police said that after the shooting, the custodian also told them that he had alerted campus security about a man who appeared to have been casing the campus.
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The Daily Wire reached out to Brown University for comment.
After hearing about the shooting at Brown, Lisi said he told a friend, &#8220;I hope it’s not the guy I’ve been seeing.&#8221; But after the police released the first images and videos of a person of interest, Lisi knew immediately.
“I knew it was him because I could tell by the walk,” he said. “He had a pretty distinctive walk.”
Lisi wasn&#8217;t alone in witnessing odd behavior from the shooter. A Brown faculty member told police that she saw a car matching the description of the suspect&#8217;s rental car slowly driving around campus just before the shooting. Another man, whom police identified as &#8220;John,&#8221; said that he saw the suspect acting suspiciously on campus in the days before the attack.
Valente, a Portuguese resident and former Brown student, was finally tracked down by police five days after the shooting, and was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage unit he owned in New Hampshire. Authorities believe that Valente was also responsible for the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was found shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on the morning of December 15.

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Comedian and host Conan O’Brien allegedly stopped party guests at his home from calling 911 on Nick Reiner last weekend, just hours before legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death, a new report claims.
“They got in an argument, the father and son,&#8221; one source told the Daily Mail. &#8220;It got so bad and loud [that] someone wanted to call the police to report it.&#8221;
“But Conan stepped in and said, ‘It’s my house, my party, I’m not calling the police.’ He talked them out of calling the police,&#8221; the source added.
A second source confirmed the incident and said some guests were concerned about Nick and thought he might need to be placed on a psychiatric hold.
“When the s*** was hitting the fan, somebody said, ‘We need to call the police.’ The conversation was about getting this kid put into a mental-health hold,” the source said. “It makes sense; who wants the cops showing up creating a scene? But the argument between Rob and Nick was pretty intense.”
The star-studded Christmas party was hosted by O&#8217;Brien at his Los Angeles-area home last Saturday night, just hours before the bodies of Rob and Michele Reiner were found by their daughter Romy. The couple were reportedly stabbed to death and had their throats slashed.
Nick, 32, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in and is currently on suicide watch.
According to <a href="https://pagesix.com/2025/12/19/celebrity-news/conan-obrien-stopped-guests-from-calling-911-on-nick-reiner-during-explosive-fight-with-dad-rob-at-holiday-party-report/">reporting</a> from Page Six, Rob Reiner allegedly said at the party that he was &#8220;petrified&#8221; of his son. &#8220;I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I’m afraid of my son. I think my own son can hurt me,” he allegedly said.
Nick was reportedly creeping out party attendees, including comedian Bill Hader. “Nick was freaking everyone out, acting crazy, kept asking people if they were famous,” one insider told People magazine.
Nick was <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/19/nick-reiner-diagnosed-with-schizophrenia/">reportedly</a> diagnosed with schizophrenia just weeks before he allegedly killed his parents. The 32-year-old was placed on a new medication, which made him “erratic and dangerous.” According to a TMZ report, the new meds drove him “out of his head.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nick-reiner-diagnosed-with-schizophrenia-before-parents-were-killed-report?author=Andie+Valdes&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Nick+Reiner+Diagnosed+With+Schizophrenia+Before+Parents+Were+Killed%3A+Report">Nick Reiner Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Before Parents Were Killed: Report</a>

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Nick Reiner, the son of legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner, was <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/19/nick-reiner-diagnosed-with-schizophrenia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> diagnosed with schizophrenia just weeks before he allegedly killed his parents and had been placed on a new medication, which made him &#8220;erratic and dangerous.&#8221;
A long-time drug addict who was frequently in rehab, Nick Reiner, 32, had been seeing a psychiatrist when his behavior had grown &#8220;alarming&#8221; after his medication was changed three to four weeks before the couple was found with their throats slit in their Los Angeles home. According to a TMZ report, the new meds drove Reiner “out of his head.”
&#8220;Our sources say doctors were trying to adjust the medications so Nick stabilized, but it wasn&#8217;t working,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;Our sources also say Nick&#8217;s substance abuse was worsening the schizophrenia.&#8221;
Reiner had been receiving costly care at a Los Angeles rehab facility, with a monthly charge of $70,000, the report said.
The additional information on Reiner&#8217;s mental state comes just days after he was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, with special circumstances attached since there were multiple murders and he allegedly attacked with a deadly weapon.
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Nick Reiner&#8217;s two siblings — Romy, 28, and Jake, 34 — issued a statement after their brother&#8217;s first court appearance: “Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day. The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience. They weren’t just our parents; they were our best friends.”
Reiner, who was arrested hours after his parents’ bodies were discovered, did not enter a plea. After confirming that he understood he was waiving his right to a speedy arraignment, the judge granted a continuance, rescheduling the proceeding for Jan. 7, 2026.
He has retained <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nick-reiner-taps-heavyweight-defense-attorney-is-not-medically-cleared-for-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">high-powered defense attorney</a> Alan Jackson, whose past clients include actor Kevin Spacey and disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

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Federal authorities have accused another Chinese researcher of smuggling biological materials into the United States, as the FBI cautions American universities about growing threats from the communist nation.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that Chinese national Youhuang Xiang was arrested for allegedly smuggling genetic material from E. coli bacteria into the United States while working as a researcher at Indiana University. According to court documents, Xiang entered the country in 2023 on an educational exchange visa to secure a postdoctoral position at the school.
“This is yet another example of a researcher from China — given the privilege to work at a U.S. university — who then allegedly chose to take part in a scheme to circumvent U.S. laws and receive biological materials hidden in a package originating from China,” Patel posted on X. “The [FBI] and our CBP partners are committed to enforcing U.S. laws put in place to protect against this global threat to our economy and food supply. If not properly controlled, E. coli and other biological materials could inflict devastating disease to U.S. crops and cause significant financial loss to the U.S. economy.”
Xiang has been charged with conspiracy to commit smuggling, smuggling, and making false statements. He could face up to 20 years in prison and fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars if convicted. James Tunick, Xiang&#8217;s lawyer, disputed the allegations.
&#8220;Youhuang Xiang was legally working in the United States on a J-1 visa with a professor from the Biology Department at Indiana University to better wheat crop production in the United States,&#8221; Tunick told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The allegation that Youhuang smuggled E. coli into the United States is completely false and is not even charged by the United States Department of Justice.&#8221;
Xiang, whose <a href="https://biology.indiana.edu/about/research-associates/index.html">bio</a> says he specializes in “recognition specificity in host-pathogen interactions and engineering crop resistance to pathogen,” was first arrested on November 25. Information about the case was unsealed this week. 
In March 2024, Xiang requested that a person in China referred to as “Individual A” ship plasmid DNA from E. coli bacteria to his home in Bloomington, Indiana, according to the indictment. The material was shipped to him shortly after, concealed in a package of clothing items that &#8220;Individual A&#8221; declared included a men&#8217;s vest and women&#8217;s underwear, investigators said. The package allegedly came from Guangzhou Sci Tech Innovation Trading.
More than a year later, on November 23, 2025, Xiang landed in Chicago after returning from a trip to London, where agents with Customs and Border Protection questioned him. During that interview, he allegedly lied to them about the package he had sent to his home and about his ties to the Chinese government. 
Xiang was scheduled to remain at Indiana University through 2027 and was leading a research program focused on genome editing in wheat plants to increase resistance to fungal diseases.
The FBI was made aware of the shipment by CBP as part of an investigation into biological materials being smuggled into the United States from China, which is why he was questioned on November 23. 
“Information provided to the FBI by CBP included information about the history of shipments from China to certain individuals at IU conducting research into wheat pathogen Resistance,” the criminal complaint said. “That information indicated that XIANG was associated with that research and that XIANG received a shipment from China at his residence on March 28, 2024.”
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The FBI also thought it was “odd” that Xiang purchased and shipped “women’s underwear from China, and further assessed it as peculiar that a company by the name ‘Guangzhou Sci Tech Innovation Trading’ would sell underwear or clothing,” according to the complaint. 
A <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674205219301625">paper</a> written by Xiang also listed his affiliation with the National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics in Shanghai, which raised flags for investigators. 
“I know from my training and experience that the PRC ‘Key Laboratories’ are overseen by the Chinese Government and have a history of concerning actions including technology transfer and theft of intellectual property,” the FBI agent who investigated the case wrote in the criminal complaint. 
Over the last few months, other Chinese researchers at American universities have been arrested for smuggling biological materials into the country. Multiple arrests have been made at the University of Michigan, where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-makes-more-arrests-as-alarming-pattern-of-chinese-smuggling-continues">investigators said</a> that shipments of concealed biological materials related to roundworms were smuggled into the United States. 
President Donald Trump has faced criticism over the presence of Chinese students at American universities. While some critics have called for reducing the number of Chinese nationals admitted to U.S. schools, Trump has argued that their enrollment helps provide funding for American institutions.

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The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a New Hampshire storage facility, according to Fox News.
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Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, whose last known address was in Miami.
Valente is a legal permanent resident who attended Brown as a physics student in 2001. He re-entered the country in 2017 as a green card holder. Authorities believe he acted alone.
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Authorities confirmed that Valente killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro in his home, less than 50 miles from Brown University. Valente previously attended the same university program as Loureiro in 1995, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Law enforcement traced the suspect to a rental car location in Boston, and then to a storage facility in New Hampshire, where he was found deceased via a self-inflicted gunshot wound, along with the satchel seen on video footage and two firearms.
This marks the end of a 6-day-long manhunt that spanned three states and involved local, federal, and state law enforcement.
“I know this has been hard on all of us over the past five days,” Providence Mayor Smiley said at a Thursday night press conference. “Minutes have felt like hours, but the people of Providence have done what we’re best at – we’ve leaned on one another, come together and supported one another, and showed the nation what a tight knit community looks like.”
“Tonight our Providence neighbors can breathe a little easier,” Smiley said.
The Rhode Island press conference has yet to mention the shooting of an MIT professor. A separate news conference is planned in Boston around 10:30 p.m. EST.

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Law enforcement is swarming a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, after locating an abandoned car linked to the Brown University shooting suspect.
Authorities believe the identified license plate matches the vehicle used in the Monday killing of an MIT professor in his home, less than 50 miles from Brown University, according to CNN.
Officers equipped with night vision and long rifles have surrounded the facility, and Fox News National Correspondent Brooke Taylor <a href="https://x.com/Brooketaylortv/status/2001816919813296600?s=20">reports</a> that local and federal law enforcement are preparing to enter the building after reviewing surveillance footage.
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Sources told Fox News that video surveillance shows the suspect entering the facility, but it is currently unclear if he ever left. Police have obtained a warrant to search the facility, per the New York Times.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Sources on the ground tell me that the suspected shooter has a storage unit under his name, in the facility where the abandoned car was found in New Hampshire. Agents have entered the facility but NOT his unit. Video shows him going into the storage facility at some…
— Brooke Taylor (@Brooketaylortv) <a href="https://twitter.com/Brooketaylortv/status/2001829086935544040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Salem Police Department issued an alert to residents regarding the police activity at the storage facility, stating they are assisting several federal agencies with “an active and ongoing investigation.”
“At this time, there is no information indicating an imminent risk to the public or residents of Salem,” police said. “However, we encourage everyone to remain vigilant and exercise heightened caution.”
Police are urging residents to report anyone who appears “out of place, unfamiliar to the area or behaving in a manner that seems unusual or suspicious.”
The news conference on the Brown University shooting investigation, scheduled initially at 4 p.m. EST Thursday, has been delayed.
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Sanctuary authorities in Virginia released an illegal immigrant from jail who went on to murder a man less than 24 hours later.
Salvadoran migrant Marvin Morales-Ortez, 23, allegedly fatally shot a man inside his Reston, Virginia, home Wednesday after authorities in Fairfax County released him from jail and ignored a federal immigration detainer to hand him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to multiple reports.
Federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire that Morales-Ortez crossed the southern border illegally in 2016. At the time, Border Patrol agents were preparing to deport him and his mother.
However, the two claimed they had a fear of returning to their home country. In 2022, an immigration judge dismissed his deportation case altogether, effectively allowing him to stay in the country without any legal status, sources said.
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NEW: Soros DA Freed Killer YESTERDAY 
Dec 16th: Fairfax Soros DA Steve Descano dropped ALL Charges vs. Marvin Fernando Morales-Ortez (illegal?) including attempt murder/gun 
[September 12th Gun Assault] 
&gt;Malicious Wounding w/ Injury &#8212; Dropped (Nolle Pros) 
&gt;Point/Brandish Firearm… <a href="https://t.co/RJ9CCQpjAy">https://t.co/RJ9CCQpjAy</a> <a href="https://t.co/5Oqw3pqlpu">pic.twitter.com/5Oqw3pqlpu</a>
— Virginians 4 Safe Communities (@VA4SafeComm) <a href="https://twitter.com/VA4SafeComm/status/2001400711876096361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
He has also been tagged as a suspected member of the violent MS-13 gang, according to ABC7.
Morales-Ortez popped back up on authorities&#8217; radar six other times starting in 2019 for a slew of alleged crimes ranging from murder to assault, according to ABC7.
He was charged with first-degree murder in 2021 and spent a year and a half behind bars while awaiting trial, according to ABC7. The charges against him were ultimately dropped after authorities determined that he wasn&#8217;t involved.
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Another individual was ultimately convicted.
Morales-Ortez was found guilty for a previous theft case, where he was fined $300, according to ABC7. He never paid the fine.
Before he was released this latest time, Morales-Ortez was charged for allegedly brandishing a gun and assaulting and injuring someone, the local outlet reported.
He was set free after the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office dropped the case.
&#8220;Prosecutors were unable to move forward with the case because the victim told police that they were out of the country and would not be coming to court to cooperate in proceedings. Sadly, without the victim’s necessary testimony, we could not move forward with the case,&#8221; the attorney&#8217;s office said.
The Fairfax County Police Department said they subsequently obtained an emergency order to take the illegal immigrant back into custody, but failed to find him within the allowed time window. Authorities eventually nabbed him after a lengthy manhunt.
&#8220;After his release, a Community Services Board (CSB) clinician obtained an Emergency Custody Order (ECO) for Morales-Ortez. An ECO is valid for eight hours after issuance by a magistrate,&#8221; the police department wrote on X.
&#8220;FCPD Reston District patrol officers were then dispatched to serve the ECO and take Morales-Ortez into custody. FCPD patrol officers responded to the address of record for Morales-Ortez and did not locate him at his residence. The ECO expired shortly thereafter.&#8221;
Fairfax County has notoriously operated as a sanctuary jurisdiction, routinely releasing illegal immigrants from jail without notifying ICE, <a href="https://cis.org/Map-Sanctuary-Cities-Counties-and-States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Center for Immigration Studies.

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Police have identified a person of interest in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University, according to multiple outlets.
Law enforcement is now searching for the identified person of interest, with Boston 25 <a href="https://x.com/Bward3/status/2001786193424650550?s=20">reporting</a> that the manhunt is now centered on Salem, New Hampshire. Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/brown-university-mass-shooting-manhunt-gunman-12-18-2025">reports</a> that police now have an arrest warrant for the individual, whom authorities have not publicly named.
Law enforcement believes the identified car is the same make and model of the vehicle used in the Monday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-investigating-potential-connection-between-brown-university-mit-shootings?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Police+Investigating+Potential+Connection+Between+Brown+University%2C+MIT+Shootings">killing</a> of an MIT professor in his home, less than 50 miles from Brown University.
Boston 25 <a href="https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/brown-university-reports-active-shooter/">spotted</a> FBI agents and members of state police surrounding an unspecified location in Salem shortly before 7:00 p.m. Local reporter Ted Daniel <a href="https://x.com/TedDanielnews/status/2001802115321336073?s=20">reports</a> that officers in the area are equipped with long guns and night vision.
On Saturday, an unidentified gunman killed two Brown University students — Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov — and injured nine others after opening fire inside Brown’s Barus &amp; Holley engineering building.
48 hours later, an assailant shot MIT professor Nuno Loureiro multiple times inside his Brookline, Massachusetts, home.
Authorities have yet to identify suspects in either case publicly, and initially stated in a Tuesday press briefing that there “seems to be no connection” between the two shootings.
Surveillance footage from Brown University captured the alleged shooting suspect — wearing a dark jacket, mask, and hat — walking around campus for hours before the attack around 4 p.m. Saturday. Multiple law enforcement agencies have expanded their search for video evidence, releasing a new map that widens the area of interest around the university.
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ENHANCED VIDEO: We are releasing an enhanced video of the person of interest in the Brown University incident. Footage was captured on the East Side of Providence on Saturday afternoon before the incident.
Please share widely and contact the official tip line if you have… <a href="https://t.co/mewBSflOiO">pic.twitter.com/mewBSflOiO</a>
— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProvidenceRIPD/status/2001035754898653196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A second person of interest was identified on Wednesday, depicted wearing a blue jacket and green hood, carrying a white satchel in the area of the shooting.
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ENHANCED PHOTO: Investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying and speaking to the individual shown in this photo who was in proximity of the person of interest.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the tip line at 401-272-3121. <a href="https://t.co/D1reRPCdZV">pic.twitter.com/D1reRPCdZV</a>
— Providence Police (@ProvidenceRIPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProvidenceRIPD/status/2001390136857178172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The search for the person of interest comes after law enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-recover-dna-evidence-from-brown-university-shooting-scene?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Police+Recover+DNA+Evidence+From+Brown+University+Shooting+Scene">recovered</a> physical evidence — including live ammunition and DNA — from the scene of the mass shooting.
The news conference on the Brown University shooting investigation, scheduled initially at 4 p.m. EST Thursday, has been delayed, a spokesman for the Providence mayor <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/brown-university-shooting-suspect-12-18-25?post-id=cmjbvx0ot00003b6qsaezw3sb">told</a> CNN.

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Heavily armed Australian police officers on Thursday detained seven men after receiving intelligence that the group, en route to Bondi Beach, might be planning a “violent act.”
Police rammed a white hatchback reportedly traveling from the southern state of Victoria to Sydney&#8217;s Bondi Beach, the site of last weekend&#8217;s ISIS-inspired antisemitic terror attack. Videos published by <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/men-pulled-from-crashed-car-by-heavily-armed-tactical-police-20251218-p5nouo.html">The Sydney Morning Herald</a> show authorities in camouflage gear, rifles in hand, zip-tying five of the men on a street in southwest Sydney.
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Sydney police arrested five men near Bondi Beach on suspicion of carrying weapons after a vehicle they were in collided with a police car, officials said. Authorities acted on specific intelligence linking the group to potential threats near the site of Sunday’s deadly attack. <a href="https://t.co/9aHvHcPR6r">pic.twitter.com/9aHvHcPR6r</a>
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) <a href="https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2001607012388421769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In Sydney five Muslims have been arrested as they were making their way to Bondi Beach for a copycat slaughter.
They were being watched by the Australian Intelligence service. <a href="https://t.co/CNpS6ahbyw">pic.twitter.com/CNpS6ahbyw</a>
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/2001670938333471092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A second hatchback was stopped by police just a few blocks away, and two men inside were also arrested. While the precise reason for the dramatic arrests was not disclosed, the group had been flagged by authorities in Victoria, according to the Herald. New South Wales police said only that “Tactical Operations police responded to information received that a violent act was possibly being planned.”
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A source told the Herald that authorities might have recovered a weapon in one of the vehicles, but police have not verified that claim. Authorities promised to release more information on the arrests and assured the public that &#8220;there is no ongoing risk to the community.&#8221;
The arrests on Thursday came just days after suspected gunmen Sajid and Naveed Akram, a father and son, were accused of killing 15 people and wounding dozens more in an attack targeting Jewish people participating in a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach. Australian authorities said that 24-year-old Naveed was inspired by ISIS and was previously investigated over his ties to the terror group. Officials said they &#8220;have not identified any connection to the current police investigation of the Bondi terror attack.”

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