Prince George’s County Freed a Suspected Gang Member and a Repeat Offender. ICE Had to Chase Both Down on the Street.
- 2 men ICE says it arrested on a public Upper Marlboro street on July 9, 2026, after Prince George's County released both despite active federal detainers — ICE news release, via Fox Baltimore/WBFF, Aug. 5, 2026
- 0 gang-related convictions on record for Yeferson Canamo-Jordan, despite ICE's “suspected” Tren de Aragua label — Shore News Network, Aug. 9, 2026
- ~18 Months the span over which Felipe Reymundo was arrested repeatedly on arson, property-destruction, trespassing, and vehicle-theft charges before ICE picked him up — WBFF/Fox Baltimore, Aug. 5, 2026
- Same Day the DOJ sued Maryland over the law that made both releases routine — filed the same day ICE made the arrests — Fox News; CBS News Baltimore, July 9, 2026
- May 2026 when Maryland's Community Trust Act took effect statewide, restricting local jails from honoring most ICE detainers — Fox News; CBS News Baltimore
On July 9, 2026, ICE deportation officers pulled two men over on public streets in Upper Marlboro, Maryland — not because they had to track them down, but because Prince George’s County’s own jail had already held both men in custody and released them. Yeferson Jose Canamo-Jordan and Felipe Fernando Reymundo had each been booked into the Prince George’s County Detention Center. Each walked out the door despite an active ICE detainer requesting the county hold him for a routine transfer.
It was not a one-off. Reymundo had been arrested repeatedly over roughly eighteen months on charges including arson, malicious destruction of property, trespassing, and motor vehicle theft — and the county’s own State’s Attorney’s Office would not tell reporters whether any of those cases were ever prosecuted. Canamo-Jordan, whom ICE describes as a suspected member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, was paroled into the country by U.S. Border Patrol in August 2022 under Biden-administration policy; ICE has not publicly produced evidence for the gang claim, and no gang-related conviction appears on his record.
The timing made it worse for county officials. The same day ICE was forced onto Upper Marlboro’s streets, the U.S. Department of Justice sued the State of Maryland over the law that made both releases routine in the first place.
Neither man was a stranger to Prince George’s County’s court system before ICE lodged its detainers. Canamo-Jordan’s file includes a driving-without-a-license conviction, already resolved, alongside the parole status Border Patrol assigned him rather than any conviction tied to the criminal allegation ICE has since attached to his name. Reymundo’s file is longer: arson, malicious destruction of property, trespassing, and motor vehicle theft, spread across arrests over roughly a year and a half, according to WBFF/Fox Baltimore’s review of the case. What is not clear is what happened to any of it. Asked directly, the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office told Fox Baltimore it “could neither confirm nor deny” whether the underlying charges were ever prosecuted — leaving the public with an arrest history that carries no visible record of what, if anything, a Maryland court ever did with it.
“Sanctuary policies continue to disregard U.S. immigration law and put communities at risk by releasing illegal aliens prone to criminal activity into our communities. By choosing not to honor ICE detainers, county jails give us no option but to conduct more arrests in the community rather than in the safe and controlled environment of a jail.”
Robert Guadian, ERO Washington Field Office Director, ICE — via Fox Baltimore/WBFF, Aug. 5, 2026
Both men, per ICE’s account, walked out of the Prince George’s County Detention Center anyway, each with an active federal detainer attached to his file — forcing ICE’s Washington Field Office to make the arrests on residential streets rather than at the jail’s own gate.
ICE’s release describes Canamo-Jordan as a suspected member of Tren de Aragua, the Venezuela-based gang the Trump administration designated a foreign terrorist organization. That word carries weight. Shore News Network’s Aug. 9 follow-up on the arrests noted plainly that ICE presented no public evidence supporting the gang designation and that no gang-related conviction exists on Canamo-Jordan’s record. Both men remain in ICE custody facing civil immigration removal proceedings, not a criminal trial; the unproven gang designation attached to Canamo-Jordan and the arson, property-destruction, and theft charges attributed to Reymundo carry the same presumption of innocence any pending matter does until a Maryland court says otherwise.
None of that uncertainty changes the documented fact that both men were released from county custody with a detainer on file. It changes only how the case should be described — as an enforcement dispute over a confirmed release, not a conviction record. Prince George’s County has pushed back before on the broader claim that it never cooperates with ICE at all, releasing its own security-camera footage in 2025 to dispute a White House characterization of its detainer policy.
The policy environment behind both releases has a name: Maryland’s Community Trust Act, passed by the General Assembly in the final days of its 2026 session and in effect statewide since May. The law restricts how far local law enforcement can go in cooperating with ICE — and Prince George’s County was already operating under its own version of that posture before the state law caught up. County Executive Aisha N. Braveboy (D) signed Executive Order 9-2026 on Feb. 19, 2026, barring county property from use as ICE detention space, on top of the county’s longer-running practice of declining ICE detainer requests at the jail.
The state law’s reach showed up almost immediately elsewhere in Maryland. On July 9 — the same day ICE arrested Canamo-Jordan and Reymundo — the Justice Department sued the State of Maryland and Attorney General Anthony Brown (D), arguing the Community Trust Act violates the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause by obstructing federal immigration enforcement. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward (Trump administration) framed the department’s position bluntly:
“Federal immigration officers merely enforce the laws that our Nation's elected representatives in Congress passed, reflecting the will of We the People.”
Stanley Woodward, Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
This was also not the county’s first time in this position. ICE’s own account of a separate, earlier case — Honduran national Rafael Aguilar, released by Prince George’s County despite a detainer tied to an attempted-murder charge and later convicted of assault — was posted directly to the agency’s X account under a header reading “ATTEMPTS MURDER and Prince George’s County, Maryland, LETS HIM OUT” — ICE’s own wording, typo included.
ATTEMPTS MURDER and Prince George's County, Maryland, LETS HIM OUT. ICE lodged a detainer. The county released him anyway. He was later convicted of assault.
The Community Trust Act’s legislative authorship and its criticism both trace to specific names, not generic “lawmakers.” Del. Nicole Williams (D), who represents Prince George’s County in the Maryland House of Delegates, sponsored HB1222 in 2025 — an earlier bill barring local police from ICE partnership programs that fed directly into the broader Community Trust Act the General Assembly passed the following year. Del. Jesse Pippy (R), of Frederick County, opposed it, pointing during debate to an earlier Prince George’s County detainer-release case — Wilmer Echenique-Navarro — as evidence that ICE cooperation is a public-safety necessity, not an optional courtesy.
Del. Kathy Szeliga (R), of Baltimore County, was blunter once this case became public:
“I just cannot understand why they are protecting criminals. These two gentlemen have a rap sheet on each of them.”
Del. Kathy Szeliga (R-Baltimore County), Maryland House of Delegates
No Prince George’s County or Maryland Democratic official named in this piece has publicly disputed the specific facts ICE laid out about either man’s release. Braveboy’s office has defended the underlying non-cooperation policy rather than the individual outcome it produced in this case.
Prince George’s County released Yeferson Canamo-Jordan and Felipe Reymundo despite active ICE detainers, forcing federal officers to arrest both men on public streets instead of at the jail. Canamo-Jordan’s alleged gang membership remains unproven — ICE has cited no evidence and no gang-related conviction exists on his record — but the release itself, and the county policy behind it, are documented facts. That policy traces to County Executive Aisha Braveboy (D) and Maryland’s Community Trust Act, sponsored in earlier form by Del. Nicole Williams (D) and opposed by Del. Jesse Pippy (R). The DOJ sued the state the same day these arrests happened. Del. Kathy Szeliga (R) is on record criticizing the release; no named Democratic official has disputed the underlying facts.
