{"id":148921,"date":"2025-08-21T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148921"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:08:30","slug":"family-man-arrest-in-d-c-was-of-illegal-charged-and-released-in-fairfax-county-for-child-sex-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/family-man-arrest-in-d-c-was-of-illegal-charged-and-released-in-fairfax-county-for-child-sex-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Family man? Arrest in D.C. was of illegal charged and released in Fairfax County for child sex assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Analysis by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, August 21, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leftist media were enraged when video posted to social media on Wednesday showed federal agents tackling and arresting an illegal immigrant from Mexico at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148928\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/familyman2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"244\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents arrest illegal alien David Perez-Teofani in D.C. on Wednesday. \/ X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The man, David Perez-Teofani, is heard on the video saying he worked in D.C., was not a criminal, and wanted to be with his family.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of waiting for the full story to emerge, and it did, major media personalities essentially jumped to the conclusion that President Donald Trump&#8217;s deployed agents were brutalizing an innocent &#8220;family man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NBC Washington reporter Aimee Cho posted on X: \u201cBREAKING: Just saw DC Police + federal agents detain a man on the National Mall. He appeared to try to escape, then was quickly tackled to the ground by several agents + was screaming in Spanish \u2018please, I\u2019m not a criminal, I work here, I want to be with my family\u2019\u201d \u2014 @AimeeCho4<\/p>\n<p>Latin America correspondent for the Wall Street Journal Jose de Cordoba replied to Cho&#8217;s post, saying \u201cEnjoy Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;The Five&#8221; co-host Jessica Tarlov posted: &#8220;This doesn&#8217;t make DC safer. It&#8217;ll just make people not want to come to DC. The cruelty is always the point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turns out Perez-Teofani is far from the &#8220;family man&#8221; they had portrayed him as.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the video first surfaced, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This illegal alien from Mexico was previously arrested in January 2024 in Fairfax County for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 13. He entered and had a final order of removal and chose to voluntary return- twice. Illegally entered 3 times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cho and Tarlov attempted to save face after their rush to judgement.<\/p>\n<p>Cho would go on to reply to her own post with an update including the DHS statement.<\/p>\n<p>Tarlov would reply to a post asking why she was defending a child sex abuser. When asked, she said: \u201cI didn\u2019t know he was &#8211; the DHS memo on him came out hours after the video. Wouldn\u2019t ever defend such a person! Hopefully you guys will only go after these types versus hardworking folks that have committed no crimes! Will delete my original tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the major media dumpster fire:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P1DVljThW2\">https:\/\/t.co\/P1DVljThW2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1M8aJqHzF\">pic.twitter.com\/Y1M8aJqHzF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DHSgov\/status\/1958294674151760352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jessica Tarlov just deleted this tweet defending an illegal who\u2019s wanted for child s*x crimes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uXNPIylXA6\">pic.twitter.com\/uXNPIylXA6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1958300481865842914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This moron, who works for The Wall Street Journal, is defending an illegal alien charged with sex crimes against a minor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DGrd0FcIp1\">https:\/\/t.co\/DGrd0FcIp1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1958327657399222669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for the first time in months, the nation&#8217;s capital has gone seven consecutive days without a homicide following Trump\u2019s federal takeover of the city\u2019s police force and deployment of the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The Post Millennial noted: &#8220;The rare streak, confirmed Wednesday, comes during the summer season when homicide levels are typically at their highest. The last time the capital reported zero killings for a full week was in March.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other crimes have also dropped sharply in DC, according to figures cited by the local police union. Robbery declined by 46 percent in the week after federal control began, carjackings fell 83 percent, and overall violent crime was down 22 percent.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2025 Real World News Leftist media were enraged when video posted to social media on Wednesday showed federal agents tackling and arresting an illegal immigrant from Mexico at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The man, David Perez-Teofani, is heard on the video saying he worked in D.C., was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":149275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,30,11,12,5],"tags":[449,6],"class_list":["post-148921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-u-s-media","category-washington","category-world-links","category-world-tribune","tag-family-man-arrest-in-d-c-was-of-illegal-charged-and-released-in-fairfax-county-for-child-sex-assault","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149276,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148921\/revisions\/149276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}