A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping an 11-year-old girl.
Mujibullah Azizi pleaded guilty to charges of rape and abduction for the assault in April 2024 and was sentenced in Arlington County Circuit Court yesterday (Wednesday).
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A man has been found guilty of attacking a woman at a restroom in Pentagon City following a series of assaults in Reston last year.
Koby Berry, 28, was found guilty of assault and battery following a trial on Oct. 26 in Arlington County General District Court.
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A former Washington-Liberty High School substitute teacher will spend five years behind bars over an inappropriate relationship with a student that began when she was 16.
Timothy McGhee was sentenced today (Friday) in Arlington County Circuit Court, the Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office said in a press release. After his release, he’ll serve three years of supervised probation with electronic monitoring.
A man has been sentenced to prison after leading state troopers on a high-speed chase on I-395 while in possession of an opioid more potent than fentanyl.
Jeffrey Asare was sentenced to 10 years of incarceration and five years of probation for the incident that took place on Nov. 12, 2025, Arlington County’s Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office announced in a press release today (Thursday).
Three men have been sentenced for their role in a fire caused by a lit cup of gasoline at a Columbia Pike apartment building last year.
Marvin Hernandez Lopez, Wilmer Agustin de Leon and Erasbiel Flores will all be serving jail time for their role in the arson incident, which took place in the early morning hours of May 15, 2025, the Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office announced today (Tuesday).
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A man who shot someone in Clarendon and fled the country, and then escaped again while awaiting extradition, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Taha Zouheir was sentenced Friday in Arlington Circuit Court to 17 years of incarceration followed by three years of probation, according to the Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.
A man who fatally stabbed his wife and seriously wounded their 1-year-old daughter in Pentagon City has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Leonardo Antonio Reyes was sentenced today (Friday) to 40 years with 15 suspended for second-degree murder and 20 years with 15 suspended for aggravated malicious wounding — 30 years to serve, followed by 10 years of probation, according to the Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office.
An Arlington man who engaged in an armed standoff with the FBI in May 2025 has been sentenced to prison for sexually exploiting multiple minors.
Stephen Chadwick Howell, 25, was sentenced to 18 years and 10 months behind bars today (Wednesday) for coercing a minor to engage in sexual activity and destroying property to prevent search and seizure.
A drug distributor has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for providing large amounts of methamphetamine to dealers in jurisdictions including Arlington.
Darrell Carter, of Philadelphia, was sentenced last week for possessing and conspiring to distribute meth, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced in a press release. Authorities discovered multiple kilograms of the drug in Carter’s home, along with communications suggesting that he used to purchase up to 20 pounds of meth per month for resale.
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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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.
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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