David Antonio Aviles Perez, a 35-year-old Salvadoran national known as 'La Bruja,' was arrested by ICE in San Diego on March 26, 2025, and held at Otay Mesa Detention Center for nearly five months without a bond hearing. U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta ruled on August 26, 2025 that immigration officials violated his Fifth Amendment rights by failing to make an individualized assessment of danger or flight risk, ordering his release and barring re-detention unless an immigration judge independently finds it warranted. In December 2025, a court in El Salvador convicted him in absentia of aggravated murder for a July 2014 killing in La Union and sentenced him to 20 years. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin publicly criticized Ohta as an 'activist judge,' saying her ruling released a 'wanted murderer.'