ICE Arrests Russian National at Marine Corps Installation in Hawaii
Military.com | By Drew F. Lawrence
Published June 20, 2025 at 4:58pm ET
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Russian woman at Marine Corps Base Hawaii last week, according to the agency and a Marine Corps spokesperson, in what is likely the first known detention of a foreign national under a partnership pilot program between the service and federal immigration authorities that began last month.
Military police at Marine Corps Base Hawaii stopped Anastasiia Vorobeva on June 12 at an entry control point on the southern part of the base, 1st Lt. John O'Hara, a spokesperson for the base, told Military.com late Friday.
He said Vorobeva failed to present "valid identification," and military police then transferred her to ICE. ICE said in a brief statement on social media following the arrest last week that it had arrested Vorobeva and that she had allegedly arrived in the country in 2023 through a port of entry in San Diego, California.
"This marks the first foreign national taken into custody since the start of MCBH's cooperative operations with ICE," O'Hara said. He deferred all other questions to ICE.
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