The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Saturday pushed back on claims by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., that ICE agents struck an “asylum seeker,” saying the man is an illegal immigrant who caused a crash while trying to evade arrest.

DHS told Fox News that the man in question is a Honduran illegal immigrant with a final order of removal dating back to 2018.

According to DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers attempted to arrest the individual, identified as Ever Omar Alvarenga-Rios, on Thursday in Baltimore, but he allegedly tried to evade arrest.

When officers conducted a vehicle stop, Alvarenga allegedly failed to comply with law enforcement and “drove recklessly” through the city, DHS said.

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DHS said a migrant caused a crash while attempting to evade ICE agents in Baltimore. (Department of Homeland Security)

DHS claimed that Alvarenga then “slammed on his brakes,” causing a multi-vehicle crash.

He then attempted to flee on foot and ignored law enforcement commands, DHS said, adding that ICE officers “followed their training and used the minimum amount of force necessary to make the arrest.”

DHS said the two officers involved in the incident were injured and taken to the hospital.

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DHS disputed Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s, D-Md., account of an ICE incident involving a migrant in Baltimore. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

“This illegal alien broke our laws, resisted arrest, sent two ICE law enforcement officers to the hospital, and endangered the general public. Thankfully both our officers are expected to make a full recovery,” DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement.

“This dangerous attempt to resist arrest comes after sanctuary politicians have encouraged illegal aliens to evade arrest by hosting webinars instructing illegal aliens how to avoid being caught. Sanctuary politicians must stop encouraging this reckless behavior that endangers illegal aliens, our officers, and the public,” she added.

Van Hollen on Saturday posted photos on social media of the man in a hospital bed, describing him as an “asylum seeker” who was rear-ended by an ICE vehicle while driving to work Thursday in Baltimore.

DHS says Ever Omar Alvarenga-Rios is an “illegal alien [who] resisted arrest [and] sent two ICE law enforcement officers to the hospital.” (Getty Images, File)

According to Van Hollen, the man suffered “significant injuries to his head, chest, back and hands.”

The Maryland Democrat also said the man was detained and claimed ICE was violating his rights by denying him access to attorneys.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Van Hollen said that ICE under the Trump administration “continues to prevent Ever Alvarenga from meeting with attorneys while in the hospital — preventing them from receiving full updates on his health condition or discussing his case so that the full set of facts can come to light.”

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“They have also blocked him from signing a privacy release so my office can make further inquiries. No matter what the Trump Administration says, the Constitution applies to everyone in the United States,” Van Hollen added. “Mr. Alvarenga has a right to due process and full access to his legal representation. By standing in the way, it looks like the Administration has something to hide.” 

A ‘beloved’ Department of Defense employee died a horrific death during a flight from Washington DC after airline staff forgot to pump oxygen into her mask after she suffered a medical emergency, a lawsuit alleges.  

Porscha Tynisha Brown, 33, was on board a 15-hour Korean Air flight in the spring of 2024 for a holiday in Seoul with three friends when she stopped breathing. 

A new lawsuit claims that she died from acute cardiac failure after staff simply watched as she gasped for air and other passengers scrambled to try to save her. 

The Korean Air crew members are accused of doing little to help while travelers who were not trained to use a defibrillator unsuccessfully tried to deploy the device. 

When they did at one point intervene, they made an incredible blunder – by placing an oxygen mask on her face without it being hooked up to the tank, per the lawsuit. 

The complaint, seen by the Daily Mail, was filed Friday by Brown’s heartbroken relatives against Korean Air, accusing staff of violating company policy by not rendering effective aid. 

The suit, first found by the The Independent, also accuses the crew of waiting too long to declare a medical emergency, and failing to divert the plane until it was too late. 

Brown was a Maryland native employed by the DoD as a workplace safety specialist at Fort Belvoir, a US Army facility in Virginia. She received an award of excellence from her garrison commander just four days before she departed for South Korea. 

Department of Defense employee Porscha T. Brown died on board a flight from Washington, DC after airline staff made an outrageous blunder, according to a lawsuit filed by her family

Brown died on March 29, 2024, 12 hours after boarding Korean Air flight 94 from Washington Dulles International to Incheon International Airport in Seoul. 

The Maryland native was looking forward to a vacation with her three friends, who were also on board the plane, when tragedy struck. 

According to the lawsuit, her friends said she left her seat to use the restroom, and a few minutes later, a flight attendant asked over the PA whether any doctors were on board. 

Brown’s friends rushed to the back of the plane, where they found her gasping for air on the ground while repeating: ‘I can’t breathe’, per the complaint.  

‘Korean Air flight personnel handed an oxygen mask to Ms. Brown to place over her face, leading [her friends] to believe that Ms. Brown was receiving oxygen,’ the lawsuit reads.

‘Despite the mask, Ms. Brown’s belabored breathing continued and she continued to indicate… that she could not breathe.’

Several passengers tried to help as Brown lost consciousness. Flight attendants retrieved a medical kit, and passenger volunteers gave Brown a shot of epinephrine.  

Epinephrine is a form of adrenaline used to treat allergic reactions, and it did nothing to help Brown. 

Crew members then rushed over with a defibrillator and placed it on the ground, according to the complaint. 

However, despite the crew being trained in how to use it, they did not deploy the machine and provided no instructions to passengers who tried instead.  

Brown, pictured above with colleagues, was a Maryland native employed by the DoD as a workplace safety specialist at Fort Belvoir, a US Army facility in Virginia. She received an award of excellence from her garrison commander just four days before she departed for South Korea

‘Several times, and in the presence of Korean Air personnel, the… machine gave the audio command, “[S]hock advised, shock advised,” the complaint states. 

‘The passengers, who were not trained on the… machine, did not know that they needed to press the “shock” button to administer a shock. 

‘Consequently, no lifesaving shock was administered to Ms. Brown.’

The complaint states that flight attendants ‘alternated between panicking, observing and taking notes’ instead of helping Brown. 

‘At no point in time did the Korean Air flight personnel attempt to take charge of the situation, provide instructions to the volunteering passengers, or render aid to Ms. Brown,’ it alleges. 

As Brown’s life slipped away, the pilot made an emergency landing in Osaka, Japan, where she was taken to Rinku General Medical Center and pronounced dead.

The DoD employee’s Japanese death certificate listed her cause of death as ‘acute cardiac failure’, which occurs when the heart cannot pump efficiently, often due to underlying conditions like heart attacks, arrhythmias, or infections. 

Her heartbroken friends were left to figure out how to transport her remains from Japan to the US. 

They later learned that the Korean Air crew had failed to plug the oxygen mask into the oxygen tank.   

‘Consequently, during the frantic attempts by passengers to save Ms. Brown’s life, Ms. Brown never received supplemental oxygen from the oxygen tank provided by Korean Air flight personnel,’ the complaint reads. 

The plaintiffs claim that if the flight attendants had responded as they were trained to, Brown ‘would not have experienced intense physical and emotional pain before dying at the age of 33’. 

The Daily Mail has contacted Korean Air for comment. Brown’s family is seeking monetary damages from the airline, of an amount to be determined by a jury

Attorney Hannah Crowe, who is representing Brown’s estate in the complaint, described her to The Independent as ‘a really remarkable young woman’.  

‘She was at the beginning of her young adulthood, and was a really accomplished and beloved member of her community,’ Crowe said. 

She added that airlines have stringent policies on how to respond to medical emergencies on board a plane.  

Darren Nicholson, Crowe’s co-counsel, also blasted the airline crew’s response. 

‘What is unusual about this case is that the apparent violations are so bad, it really shocks the conscience how the airline personnel handled this situation,’ Nicholson told The Independent. 

‘There were some very simple things they should have done, that they didn’t do.’

The Daily Mail has contacted Korean Air for comment. Brown’s family is seeking monetary damages from the airline, of an amount to be determined by a jury. 

A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is facing murder charges after allegedly gunning down a man in Maryland this week. 

27-year-old Dayton Webber, of La Plata, allegedly shot and killed a passenger in his vehicle following an argument on the evening of Sunday, March 22, according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office. 

Two individuals flagged down La Plata police officers around 10:25 p.m., telling officers they were passengers riding in the backseat of Webber’s vehicle, authorities said. 

The witnesses said Webber fatally shot the front-seat passenger, identified as 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells, twice in the head during an argument, according to court documents obtained by FOX 5. 

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Dayton Webber is charged with first-degree murder, along with additional related charges, after he allegedly shot and killed a passenger in his car in La Plata, Maryland on Sunday, March 22, 2026, according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office. (Charles County Sheriff’s Office)

A preliminary investigation revealed Webber allegedly pulled the vehicle over and asked the passengers to help remove Wells from the vehicle, but the group of friends “refused, got out of the car, and left the scene,” according to authorities.

Webber then fled the area with Wells still in the car, authorities said. 

Officers began canvassing various locations in an attempt to locate Webber. 

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Dayton Webber runs to steal third base at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016. (Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Approximately two hours later, a Charlotte Hall resident called 911 to report a body in a yard, according to authorities.

Officers responded and located Wells, who was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Webber’s vehicle was later found roughly two and a half hours away in Charlottesville, Virginia, authorities said.

Detectives subsequently located Webber seeking medical treatment at a nearby hospital and Albemarle County officers placed him under arrest following his release from care. 

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Dayton Webber steals third base at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on Sunday, August. 21, 2016.  (Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Following his extradition to Charles County, Webber is expected to be charged with first-degree murder, along with additional related charges, authorities said.

Officials have not yet elaborated on how Webber was able to operate a vehicle or fire a weapon. 

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​​”It’s early in the investigation, but there’s no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the shooting and that he acted alone,” Diane Richardson of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, according to FOX 5.

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Both of Webber’s arms and legs were removed when he was just 10 months old after he contracted a bacterial infection that only had a 3% chance of survival, according to a 2024 ESPN video profile. 

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He previously made headlines as a professional athlete for the American Cornhole League, where he was referred to as “an unstoppable cornhole player” in a 2023 video posted to the league’s YouTube channel.

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“That’s one of the great things about our sport, how accessible it is, and how we like to say anyone can play, anyone can win, because if you want to put your mind to it, you want to put the time into practice, you can become competitive,” ACL commissioner Stacey Moore told Fox News Digital earlier this month. 

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The Charles County Sheriff’s Office and Webber’s attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee has been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing another man during an argument on Sunday in Maryland.

Police say 27-year-old Dayton James Webber was in his Tesla SUV when he shot and killed his passenger, 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells, during an argument in La Plata.

Webber allegedly pulled over and asked two backseat passengers to help him remove Wells from the car, but they refused and fled before calling police. All occupants of the car were known to each other, according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office. 

Authorities say Webber fled the scene with Wells still in his car. The body was later found in a yard on Newport Church Road in Charlotte Hall, Maryland.

While Wells was pronounced dead at the scene, Webber was ultimately located by police at a hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia and is now awaiting extradition to Charles County, Maryland on first- and second-degree murder charges.

Police have yet to explain how Webber, who has no limbs, was able to fire his weapon or ditch the body. There are online videos purportedly showing Webber using a handgun. 

Maryland police say 27-year-old Dayton James Webber (pictured) was in his Tesla SUV when he shot and killed his passenger, 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells, in La Plata

Dayton Webber is an avid outdoorsman, in addition to being a professional cornhole player 

Dayton Webber, 27, is able to compete in cornhole by holding the bag between his arms

Webber was diagnosed with a bacterial infection as a child that ultimately led to sepsis 

‘It’s early in the investigation, but there’s no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the shooting and that he acted alone,’ Charles County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Diane Richardson said, as quoted by Fox5DC.com.

Webber reportedly became a quadruple amputee as a baby due to a blood infection that ultimately led to sepsis. 

‘They suggested he be baptized and given his last rights,’ Webber’s mother, Natalie, told ESPN in 2023. ‘That just didn’t enter my thoughts that I was going to lose him.’

Ultimately, his arms were amputated just above the elbow, giving him the ability to pin objects between his upper arms. It’s this trait that allowed him to become a competitive cornhole player, ultimately joining the American Cornhole League in 2023.

Dayton Webber, 27, has been the subject of several ESPN profiles following his amputations

Dayton Webber, now 27, said his passion for cornhole began when he was about 8

‘At first, it took me a little while to get it there to the board consistently,’ he told ESPN of his cornhole obsession, which began at age 8. ‘I was able to compensate the grip on the bag by just grabbing the corner of it with me propelling myself forward.

‘It’s something I’ve been doing my whole life, is overcoming things that people didn’t think I can do.’   

Interestingly, this was the second piece ESPN did on Webber. As a 12-year-old wrestler in Maryland, he was featured in an ESPN.com article. 

‘I like wrestling better than any other sport,’ he told ESPN.com. ‘I like using my strength and being fit. And I don’t have to rely on other people to do stuff for me like you do in football. Sometimes when I watch my teammates in certain situations I wish I had hands, but I just try to do things my own way.’

The American Cornhole League has released a statement in response to the arrest. 

‘The ACL is aware of the reports regarding allegations involving Dayton Webber,’ the statement began. ‘This is an extremely serious matter and our thoughts are with all those impacted, including the family and loved ones of Bradrick Michael Wells.

‘At this time, this remains an active legal situation. We respect the judicial process and will not comment on specific allegations or details while proceedings are ongoing.’ 

Four illegal migrants, who are members of the notorious MS-13 gang, have been indicted after they allegedly brutally murdered a 14-year-old boy in a Maryland park.

Jose Vladimir Merlos, 18, Alam Josai Garcia-Padilla, 21, William Cuellar Gutierrez, 19, and a 17-year-old were indicted on charges, including first-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and participation in a criminal organization, according to Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Tara Jackson.

All four indicted are MS-13 gang members and illegal immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed.

Jefferson Amaya-Ayala, 14, of Washington, DC, was reported missing on Aug. 2, 2025.

Nearly three months later, on Nov. 3, Prince George’s County police announced that officers had recovered “what appeared to be possible human remains” in a park in Prince George’s County.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) later identified the remains as Amaya-Ayala and determined he died from “multiple injuries,” ruling the death a homicide.

Through their investigation, detectives identified the four suspects in the alleged homicide. Authorities said that their preliminary investigation found that Amaya-Ayala “was lured” to the park and murdered on Aug. 2.

Police said that the teen “knew at least one of the four suspects,” adding that the murder appears gang-related. However, the motive remains under investigation.

DHS identified Merlos as a Salvadoran national, who authorities allege is affiliated with MS-13. DHS said he was previously arrested in Washington, DC, on charges including defacing public property and possession of a prohibited weapon after allegedly spray-painting MS-13 gang symbols on homes.

DHS said Garcia-Padilla, 21, also a Salvadoran national alleged to be an MS-13 member, was previously convicted in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia of attempted unlawful possession of ammunition.

He was also found in possession of fraudulent documents, including a lawful permanent resident card and a Social Security card, according to DHS.

The agency said Garcia-Padilla was released from custody during the Biden administration.

Cuellar Gutierrez was also identified by DHS as a Salvadoran national and alleged MS-13 member.

He was previously arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia on multiple weapons-related charges, including possession of a large-capacity ammunition feeding device, possession of an unregistered firearm, carrying a pistol without a license, carrying a pistol without a license in a gun-free zone, and possession of unregistered ammunition.

DHS said he was released from custody during the Biden administration.

A fourth suspect, a 17-year-old, has also been charged.

Parent Teacher Association officials in one of the wealthiest school districts in the country hosted a training session last month instructing families on how to respond to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity.

The virtual PTA session in Montgomery County, Maryland, was held on Jan. 20 and was headed by Councilwoman Kristin Mink. The meeting was titled “ICE Response & Organizing Tools for PTAs, Parents & Guardians.” 

According to the National Review, Mink has previously hosted multiple sessions on ways schools can equip themselves with “tools to slow ICE down and protect each other.” The training guided parents on how to escort students with illegal immigrant parents, and encouraged volunteers to monitor ICE activity during drop‑off and pickup, and introduced ways to support families affected by ICE arrests and deportations.

During the session, Mink reportedly presented comprehensive “rapid response” guidance she had created and shared publicly three days earlier. 

In one slide, Mink outlined how “White allies” could assist and support the community, advising them not to use whistles to counter “ICE violence,” which has become a widespread form of community resistance. She argued that White individuals should avoid using a tool that, in her view, reinforces authority associated with Whiteness.

“Especially for White allies, whistles can represent a subconscious desire for authority, protection, or control in moments of crisis,” the slide said. 

“But rapid response is not about assuming authority. . . . When we question decisions made by those impacted, we risk centering our own comfort instead of impacted people.”

She added that “What feels ‘activating’ or empowering to some can cause stress to others,” noting that “Black and Brown communities are already overexposed to chronic noise pollution due to racist zoning, redlining, and disinvestment.”

She further addressed, in the slide, how certain characteristics — such as gender, sexuality, and education — align with positions of power or marginalization.

Last September, the Department of Homeland Security clarified that, contrary to what it described as “fearmongering” by sanctuary politicians, “ICE is not conducting enforcement operations at, or ‘raiding,’ schools.”

Mink’s presentation aligns with a recent wave within the anti-ICE movement, where immigrant-led organizations clashed with predominantly White “rapid response” activists over the use of whistles during immigration raids.

Groups like the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) and Maryland-based coalitions argue that blowing whistles is a “White Savior” tactic that creates unnecessary panic and escalates tension.

The Jan. 20 meeting sparked further controversy, with critics arguing that parent-teacher organizations should prioritize academic success rather than engaging in political activism.

“It goes without saying, PTAs should focus on their original intent: students — not injecting inflammatory and divisive political rhetoric into the community,” Kendall Tietz, investigative reporter at Defending Education, told the National Review.

The online presentation was promoted by, and advertised on, the Montgomery County Council of PTAs’ social media. According to the online sign-up sheet, several agencies supported the information session, including education associations, labor unions and immigration advocacy organizations. 

Many local PTAs also promoted the session on their official platforms, including those at Gaithersburg Middle School, Laytonsville Elementary School and Stedwick Elementary School.