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County Board candidate criticizes prosecutors over handling of assault case

Published April 29, 2026 at 2:45PM

Audrey Clement gathering signatures outside of Arlington Central Library on Monday, March 9, 2026 (staff photo)

Frequent County Board candidate Audrey Clement has taken issue with the amount of time her assailant was sentenced to serve for attacking her and a bystander outside a library in March.

The man, 47-year-old Jonathan Rogers, pleaded guilty to striking Clement in the back of the head and hitting a bystander in the eye when he intervened in the apparently unprovoked attack. Rogers was released from jail on Sunday after spending just 50 days behind bars — an amount of time that Clement believes is unacceptable.

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Man who attacked County Board candidate sentenced to 100 days in jail

By Dan Egitto

Published April 27, 2026 at 1:45PM | Updated April 27, 2026 at 11:23PM

Audrey Clement gathering signatures outside of Arlington Central Library on Monday, March 9, 2026 (staff photo)

A man who attacked frequent County Board candidate Audrey Clement while she was gathering signatures outside a library has been sentenced to 100 days of active jail time.

Jonathan Rogers, 47, was sentenced to just shy of two years, with all but 100 days suspended, for the March 7 attack in which he struck Clement in the back of the head and hit another man in the eye, according to sentencing documents. He must also pay $16,050 in restitution for the violent, and apparently unprovoked, struggle outside Central Library.

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Bounty hunter accused of presenting fake ICE warrant loses license, avoids jail time

By Jared Serre

Published March 5, 2026 at 2:45PM

Arlington County courthouse on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 (staff photo by James Jarvis)

A bounty hunter has pleaded guilty to illegal brandishing in an incident where he is accused of unlawfully detaining a Green Valley resident, falsely claiming to have a warrant for his immigration arrest.

Matthew Mallory has also entered a no contest plea to a charge of trespassing in connection to the June incident, where prosecutors say he lied about having a document from the Department of Homeland Security in order to enter a home and detain a victim at gunpoint.

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Three men sentenced for roles in hundreds of airbag thefts in N. Va.

By Dan Egitto

Published February 19, 2026 at 9:15AM

Airbag stolen from vehicle at the Dorchester Towers apartments on Columbia Pike in 2022 (courtesy photo)

Three men have been sentenced to prison over a conspiracy to steal hundreds of airbags across Northern Virginia.

Alexandria resident Adisorn Damrongchai and Chinese national Yuchen Zhang were found guilty of nabbing airbags in Virginia and selling them to a third conspirator, Severn, Md., resident Keith William Smith, beginning in August 2022.

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Man sentenced for striking ACPD officer with car, fleeing scene

By Jared Serre

Published February 11, 2026 at 10:00AM

Arlington County courthouse on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 (staff photo by James Jarvis)

A man who struck a police officer with his SUV in Crystal City and fled the scene will spend the next six months behind bars.

Anthony Aquice, 25, was sentenced last week to five years — though four-and-a-half years of that time is suspended, the Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office announced on Monday.

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Drunk driver gets 8 years for killing woman while speeding the wrong way on GW Parkway

By Dan Egitto

Published January 26, 2026 at 12:45PM

Portion of southbound GW Parkway near the location of a fatal crash on Jan. 1, 2025 (via Google Maps)

A drunk driver who struck and killed a woman in a head-on collision on GW Parkway has been sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

Carlos Hernandez Romero — who did not have a driver’s license and who was driving 80 mph in the wrong direction the night of Jan. 1, 2025 — admitted to aggravated DWI manslaughter, according to a press release from the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office for Arlington and Falls Church.

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Man sentenced for stealing NCIS vehicle and other cars from Reagan National

By Dan Egitto

Published January 7, 2026 at 10:00AM

The tower at Reagan National Airport on a sunny day (staff photo)

A Maryland man was sentenced yesterday (Tuesday) for stealing multiple vehicles from Reagan National Airport, including one belonging to a federal law enforcement agency.

Tyrese McKinnon, 25, was sentenced to three years and one month in prison for conspiring to steal five vehicles from Reagan National, and another vehicle from Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport.

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Man sentenced for setting fires at three Crystal City restaurants

By Jared Serre

Published December 9, 2025 at 11:45AM | Updated December 9, 2025 at 1:03PM

Suspect in 23rd Street restaurant arsons, on a surveillance image of a fire being set at Freddie's Beach Bar (both via ACFD)

A man has been sentenced for setting fires at three restaurants in Crystal City earlier this year and reportedly trying to frame a past employer.

Timothy Clark Pollock last Friday received the maximum 10-year sentence for arson of an unoccupied building, but all but two and a half years is suspended, according to court records. The remaining years of Pollock’s sentence would apply if he violates the terms of his probation after his release.

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Man sentenced to 15 years in prison after Arlington cocaine bust

By ARLnow.com

Published July 10, 2025 at 11:30AM

The Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse in Alexandria (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A man from Philly is set to spend a decade and a half in prison for drug distribution after being nabbed during a sting in Arlington.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, along with Arlington County police chief Andy Penn, announced the sentencing Thursday morning.

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Four sentenced for kidnapping 83-year-old Arlington veteran in theft scheme

By ARLnow.com

Published June 24, 2025 at 10:35PM

The Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse in Alexandria (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Four people have been sentenced to federal prison for kidnapping an 83-year-old Arlington man from his home in order to steal his money.

The sentences range from six to 20 years in prison for the December 2023 crime that involved holding the elderly veteran at gunpoint and taking him to a “trap house” in D.C.

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Security guard sentenced to one year for shooting teen trespasser at Key Bridge Marriott

By Jared Serre

Published March 11, 2025 at 9:00AM

Security vehicle at the Key Bridge Marriott on May 31, 2024 (staff photo)

A security guard who shot and wounded a trespassing teen at the Key Bridge Marriott site in Rosslyn will spend the next year behind bars.

Ahmed Namnoom, 54, was sentenced to the maximum five years of incarceration on Friday for unlawful wounding, though Circuit Court Judge Daniel S. Lopez suspended all but one year.

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Reston man sentenced for Arlington sex crimes, one involving a minor

By Jared Serre

Published February 12, 2025 at 11:15AM

Gavel (Flickr photo by Joe Gratz)

A Reston man has been sentenced to at least seven years in prison for multiple sex crimes in Arlington.

Matthew Coble’s sentencing, handed down Friday by Circuit Court Judge Daniel S. Fiore II, follows his convictions for aggravated sexual battery and indecent liberties with a minor — crimes involving two different victims.