Comments At Arlington County Board Meeting, October 18, 2025.
At the September 13 County Board meeting,Takis Karantonis doubled down on his accusation that I misrepresented the release of Guatelmalan rapist David Cabrera from the Arlington County jail to a Courthouse street.
According to Takis, Cabrera was not released by the County Sheriff’s Office, as I had claimed, but rather by the court. This argument takes hair splitting to a new level. Regardless who issued the order, it’s obvious that a prisoner can only be released from the facility where he is incarcerated, and the sheriff holds the prisoners. As of July 11, 2025, the day he was released, the sheriff not the court had custody of Cabrera.
Takis also took issue with my linking Cabrera’s release with County Board’s revocation of Section 7 of its Trust Policy in May, 2025, saying “the Sheriff’s Office . . . is not covered by Arlington’s Trust Policy.” Yet if the County were still cooperating with ICE, the police department would have notified ICE of Cabrera’s arrest on June 4, and the Sheriff might have complied with a subsequent ICE detainer to hold him for pickup upon release.
Fox News reported on July 17, 2025 that the County had refused to honor just such a detainer request. County Sheriff Jose Quiroz told me on July 31 that there was no detainer in Cabrera’s file on July 11. These stories don’t jibe. Instead of blaming Fox News for getting the story wrong and me because I “didn’t care to look in detail at what actually had happened,” Takis should himself come clean and say what happened to the ICE detainer on David Cabrera after his latest arrest.