A Moldovan woman convicted of torturing and tossing a victim to their death from a ninth-floor window was arrested by US immigration officials – years after she fled her home country to avoid justice and was let into the US.
Victoria Sorocean was arrested in Los Angeles by US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) on Nov. 4 after officials learned she was wanted in Moldova for a grisly murder, Fox News reported.
Sorocean and an accomplice were found guilty that year of beating a victim with a stick and an electrical cable, then chucking their battered body from the window of an apartment building on to the pavement below.
Victoria Sorocean was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Nov. 4. DHS
The Eastern European was convicted of premeditated murder with exceptional cruelty in 2013, and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
But she escaped Moldova to dodge justice, and made her way to the US instead.
The killer was first apprehended in the US in 2020, but managed to manipulate the legal system and asylum process to avoid deportation, ICE sources told Fox News.
Her ploy seemed at first to work – after lodging numerous legal filings and appeals, she was eventually released back into the US in 2022.
Sorocean remains in ICE custody while awaiting deportation to Moldova. William Farrington
“It shocks the conscience that the Biden administration released into America a cruel, violent illegal alien,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox.
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“These are the types of barbaric criminal illegal aliens ICE is targeting every single day. 70% of all ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the US,” she added.
“This does not even include foreign fugitives like this convicted murderer. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, the world’s criminals are no longer welcome in the US.”
Sorocean remains in ICE custody while awaiting deportation to Moldova.
Photos from her arrest showed Sorocean with a downcast face and cuffs around her wrists as she sat in the back of an ICE vehicle.