An Arlington probation officer warned a judge last year that a local man — now charged with attempted rape — was on the verge of a slippery slope of increasing violent crime.
Luzvin Orvando Garcia Moran, whose arrest has also caught the attention of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) because of his immigration status, remains in jail following a violent attack in Clarendon.
Back in May 2025, probation officer Manuel Vicens wrote in a letter to General District Court Judge Jason Rucker that the suspect was “a danger to self and others” after being arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
The May 2025 arrest, Vicens noted, was Garcia Moran’s second after being charged with public intoxication and assault and battery earlier that year.
“Given his recent arrests, his refusal to follow treatment recommendations and his failure to comply with his conditions of probation,” Vicens wrote, “Mr. Garcia Moran is likely to get intoxicated and to engage in behaviors that could result in disorderly conduct or assault charges.”
The letter is dated May 23, one day before Garcia Moran was arrested for attempting to disarm an Arlington police officer of his service weapon while he was apparently intoxicated, according to court documents.
Garcia Moran reportedly told police during the incident that he intended to shoot them, and “cursed at the officers, used racial slurs and screamed before being … searched and placed in a police cruiser.”
Six months later, Garcia Moran pleaded no contest, meaning that he did not admit guilt but acknowledged he would likely lose at trial. He was later sentenced to five years of incarceration, though a different judge suspended all but nine months of his penalty after accepting a plea deal.
Arlington’s Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Garcia Moran was released from custody in February, less than two months before the incident earlier this week.
Around 5:40 a.m. on Sunday, April 12, Garcia Moran is accused of approaching a woman who had been waiting for a rideshare on the 2700 block of Wilson Blvd in Clarendon. A criminal complaint states that she rebuffed a sexual advance and “was trying to scare him off” when he grabbed her, shoved her into a wall and punched her multiple times in the back of the head.
The victim was able to break free, but the suspect came back and assaulted her again, according to police.
The victim yelled for help and two bystanders came to her assistance and called police. The suspect fled on foot but officers quickly located him near N. Edgewood Street and Franklin Road and took him into custody, police said.
Charged with attempted rape, abduction with intent to defile and assault and battery, Garcia now Moran faces more than 30 years in prison if convicted.
The incident has drawn national attention, stemming from Garcia Moran’s immigration status and Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s move earlier this year to reduce or eliminate cooperation with federal immigration officials.
Lauren Bis, a DHS spokeswoman, released a statement yesterday (Wednesday) arguing that “Virginia’s sanctuary policies allowed this illegal alien to go on a crime spree.”
.@GovernorVA and Virginia sanctuary politicians MUST NOT release a criminal illegal alien who KIDNAPPED and ATTEMPTED to RAPE a Virginia woman.
Luzvin Orvando Garcia Moran, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, approached his victim on the early morning of April 12. When she… pic.twitter.com/52EmSlcRN3
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) April 16, 2026
“Despite prior arrests by law enforcement, this criminal was released from jail multiple times before he went on to commit this heinous rape,” Bis said, despite Garcia Moran not being accused of rape. “We are calling on Arlington County sanctuary politicians and Governor Abigail Spanberger to commit to not releasing this criminal from jail back into our communities. How many more times must they release criminals into our neighborhoods to create more innocent victims?”
Bis also urged local and state officials to keep Garcia Moran in custody in order to have U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deport him to his native Guatemala after his release.
DHS noted in a press release that “according to Arlington County Court records, Moran has at least 25 prior charges dating back to 2020, including nine counts of being intoxicated in public, assault and battery, disorderly conduct, attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer, and several probation violations.”
Garcia Moran was arraigned Monday in Arlington General District Court and is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing on June 2. There, a judge will determine whether there is enough probable cause to send the case to a grand jury.
