国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马伦指责该法官将美国人的生命置于险境
2026年9月5日 美国东部时间晚上9:18 / 福克斯新闻
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一名因残忍的处决式谋杀罪名被定罪的MS-13帮派成员，在一名联邦法官下令立即释放后，已从加利福尼亚州的联邦羁押中获释，这引发了特朗普政府的强烈愤慨。
美国地区法官赵真淑（Jinsook Ohta）下令释放35岁的大卫·安东尼奥·阿维莱斯·佩雷斯，此人又名“女巫”。法官作出该裁决的原因是，移民官员将其关押了五个月，却未给他举行保释听证会，也未评估他是否对公众构成危险或有潜逃风险。
美国国土安全部（DHS）部长马克韦恩·马伦指责这位由拜登任命的法官下令释放阿维莱斯·佩雷斯，将公众置于危险之中。
大卫·安东尼奥·阿维莱斯·佩雷斯因谋杀罪在萨尔瓦多被通缉，萨尔瓦多检察官指出，他以“女巫”之名为人所知，是臭名昭著的MS-13帮派成员。（美国国土安全部 供图）
“这位激进的活动派法官释放了一名被通缉的杀人犯，将美国人的生命置于险境，”马伦在周六的一份声明中说道。
“这已经是这名危险的非法移民第二次被释放到加利福尼亚州的街头了，”他补充道，“由于庇护城市的政客们想在法庭上玩弄政治，无辜的美国人正处于危险之中。”
2025年3月31日，被美国遣返回萨尔瓦多的委内瑞拉阿拉瓜火车帮（Tren de Aragua）和MS-13帮派成员抵达萨尔瓦多圣萨尔瓦多。（萨尔瓦多总统新闻办公室/阿纳多卢通讯社 via 盖蒂图片社，档案照）
这起案件的核心是2014年萨尔瓦多发生的一起残忍的帮派杀人案，以及围绕特朗普政府在遣返程序进行期间拘留移民的权限展开的法律纠纷。
萨尔瓦多检察官确认，阿尔维斯·佩雷斯是活跃的MS-13帮派成员，又名“拉布鲁哈”（La Bruja），即“女巫”。他在萨尔瓦多境外于2025年12月被定罪，因加重谋杀罪被判处20年监禁。
美国国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马伦与MS-13帮派成员在萨尔瓦多特科卢卡。（奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社；亚历克斯·布兰登-普尔/盖蒂图片社，档案照）
检察官表示，阿维莱斯·佩雷斯和另一名MS-13成员在拉乌尼翁的山区追赶一名男子，随后其他帮派成员迫使受害者停下并跪下。
检察官称，几名帮派成员按住受害者的肩膀，阿维莱斯·佩雷斯和其同伙上前行凶。
随后，帮派成员朝该男子的胸部、背部和脸部开枪，之后逃离现场。两名被告均在境外受审并被定罪。
据国土安全部消息，阿维莱斯·佩雷斯于未知日期和地点进入美国。
2023年，他在加利福尼亚州蒙特雷被捕，当时他据称在蒙特雷州立海滩附近的拉古纳格兰德公园向一名无家可归者挥舞弯刀。据称他在警察从附近假日酒店停车场找到武器前将其藏了起来。
阿维莱斯·佩雷斯在该事件后被起诉并定罪，但后来被释放。国土安全部将此归咎于加利福尼亚州的庇护政策，该政策限制地方当局与联邦移民官员的合作。
2025年3月26日，移民海关执法局（ICE）特工在圣迭戈再次逮捕了他，并将其羁押，等待遣返回萨尔瓦多。
联邦法庭记录显示，他被关押在奥泰梅萨拘留中心等待遣返，直到赵真淑法官在8月26日下令立即将其释放。
在被移民羁押近五个月后，阿维莱斯·佩雷斯提交了一份请愿书，对其拘留提出质疑，并要求立即释放他。
赵真淑法官裁定，移民官员侵犯了他的第五修正案正当程序权利，因为官员在未对他是否具有危险性或可能潜逃进行个性化评估的情况下将其拘留。
“尽管请愿人似乎曾在2023年5月的一场斗殴后被定罪，但政府并未提供证据表明，在拘留他时，曾考虑过这些事实，并对他对公众的危险程度或潜逃风险作出了个性化判定，”赵真淑法官写道。
美国地区法官赵真淑，她下令将大卫·安东尼奥·阿维莱斯·佩雷斯从南加州的移民羁押中释放。（加利福尼亚州州长办公室 供图）
该法官表示，联邦官员在阿维莱斯·佩雷斯被拘留前和拘留后都未给予其任何法律程序，也未证明举行听证会会给政府带来过度负担。
赵真淑法官下令立即释放他，并禁止移民海关执法局再次拘留他，除非移民法官首先举行保释听证会，并认定有必要重新拘留他。
8月27日，即释放令发布的第二天，该案提交了一份状态报告。国土安全部表示，阿维莱斯·佩雷斯随后已从联邦羁押中获释。
该裁决并未洗清阿维莱斯·佩雷斯的不当行为嫌疑，也未认定他不构成任何危险。裁决仅聚焦于移民官员是否遵循了必要程序来证明对其继续拘留的合理性。
据加利福尼亚州州长办公室消息，加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽瑟姆于2020年12月任命赵真淑为圣迭戈县高等法院法官。
加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽瑟姆在8月19日的新闻发布会上发言。（泰丰·库昆/阿纳多卢通讯社 via 盖蒂图片社）
总统乔·拜登于2021年9月提名她担任美国南加州地区联邦地区法院法官。参议院于同年12月确认了这一提名，其司法委员会任命也于当月晚些时候正式生效，据联邦司法中心信息。
马伦誓言，该裁决不会阻碍该政府的移民打击行动。
“国土安全部和移民海关执法局不会被这些党派游戏吓倒，”他说，“如果加利福尼亚州的领导人不愿保护美国人，那么国土安全部将挺身而出。”
福克斯新闻数字频道联系了赵真淑法官的办公室，希望就阿维莱斯·佩雷斯的获释一事获得更多评论和确认。
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Machete-wielding MS-13 gangster wanted for murder walks free after Biden-appointed judge releases him: DHS
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin accuses judge of putting American lives at risk
September 5, 2026 9:18pm EDT / Fox News
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An MS-13 gang member convicted in a savage execution-style murder is out of federal custody in California after a federal judge ordered his immediate release, igniting fury from the Trump administration.
U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta ordered the release of David Antonio Aviles Perez, 35, aka “the witch,” after finding that immigration officials held him for five months without giving him a bond hearing or determining whether he posed a danger to the public or a flight risk.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin accused the Biden-appointed judge of putting the public in danger by ordering Aviles Perez’s release.
David Antonio Aviles Perez is wanted for murder in El Salvador, where prosecutors note he is known as “the witch” and a notorious MS-13 gang member.(Department of Homeland Security)
“This radical activist judge has put American lives at risk by releasing a wanted murderer,” Mullin said in a statement Saturday.
“This is now the SECOND time this dangerous illegal has been released back onto the streets in California,” he added. “Because sanctuary politicians want to play politics from the bench, innocent Americans are in danger.”
Members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs deported to El Salvador by the U.S. arrive in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 31, 2025.(Salvadorian Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images, File)
The case centers on a brutal 2014 gang killing in El Salvador and a legal fight over the Trump administration’s authority to detain immigrants while removal proceedings unfold.
Alvise Perez, identified by Salvadoran prosecutors as an active MS-13 member also known as “La Bruja,” or “The Witch,” was convicted while outside El Salvador in December 2025 and sentenced to 20 years in prison for aggravated murder.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and MS-13 gang members in Tecoluca, El Salvador.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images, File)
Prosecutors said Aviles Perez and another MS-13 member chased a man through a mountainous area in La Unión before fellow gang members forced the victim to stop and kneel.
The victim was held by the shoulders as Aviles Perez and his accomplice approached, prosecutors said.
The gang members then shot the man in the chest, back and face before fleeing. Both defendants were tried and convicted while outside the country.
Aviles Perez entered the U.S. at an unknown date and location, according to DHS.
He was arrested in Monterey, California, in 2023, after allegedly swinging a machete at a homeless man at Laguna Grande Park near Monterey State Beach. He allegedly hid the weapon before officers recovered it from a nearby Holiday Inn parking lot.
Aviles Perez was charged and convicted after the incident but later released from custody. DHS blamed California’s sanctuary policies, which limit cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration officials.
A deported member of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang in custody in San Salvador, El Salvador.(El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images, File)
ICE agents arrested him again in San Diego on March 26 and took him into custody pending his removal to El Salvador.
He was held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center pending removal to El Salvador until Ohta ordered his immediate release Aug. 26, federal court records show.
After nearly five months in immigration custody, Aviles Perez filed a petition challenging his detention and seeking his immediate release.
Ohta ruled that immigration officials violated his Fifth Amendment due process rights by holding him without an individualized assessment of whether he was dangerous or likely to flee.
“Although Petitioner appears to have previously been convicted following a fight with another individual in May 2023, the government has offered no evidence that it detained him after considering those facts and making an individualized determination of his danger to the public or flight risk,” Ohta wrote.
U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta, who ordered David Antonio Aviles Perez released from immigration custody in Southern California.(California Governor’s Office)
The judge said federal officials gave Aviles Perez “no process before or after his detention” and had not shown that providing a hearing would place an undue burden on the government.
Ohta ordered his immediate release and barred ICE from detaining him again unless an immigration judge first holds a bond hearing and determines that renewed detention is warranted.
A status report was filed in the case Aug. 27, one day after the release order. DHS said Aviles Perez was subsequently released from federal custody.
The ruling did not clear Aviles Perez of wrongdoing or find that he posed no danger. It focused on whether immigration officials followed the required process to justify keeping him detained.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Ohta to the San Diego County Superior Court in December 2020, according to the governor’s office.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press event Aug. 19.(Tayfun CoÅkun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in September 2021. The Senate confirmed her that December, and her judicial commission was issued later that month, according to the Federal Judicial Center.
Mullin vowed that the ruling would not derail the administration’s immigration crackdown.
“DHS and ICE will not be deterred by these partisan games,” he said. “If California’s leaders won’t protect Americans, DHS will.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Ohta’s office for additional comment and confirmation surrounding Aviles Perez’s release.
Stepheny Price is a Writer at Fox News with a focus on West Coast and Midwest news, missing persons, national and international crime stories, homicide cases, and border security.