A Venezuelan migrant, Marcos Iriarte-Valdez, has been charged over the fatal stabbing of 68-year-old California retiree Todd Stewart in an East Bay suburb. The article focuses on his earlier arrests, an ICE detainer and his subsequent release by a judge appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom, raising questions about immigration enforcement and local criminal-justice decisions.

Fox News reports that Iriarte-Valdez had previously entered the United States and had been arrested before the alleged killing. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had lodged a detainer request, but he was released from custody; the article presents this sequence as a timeline leading to the murder charge, although the supplied text does not include the full chronology or the judge’s stated reasoning.