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A Bailey’s Crossroads man was sentenced Wednesday (June 18) to 25 years in prison for his attempt to carry out a mass shooting at a Haymarket church in 2023.

In March, a federal jury convicted Rui Jiang, 36, of attempting to obstruct the congregants of the Park Valley Church in the free exercise of their religious beliefs, transmitting online threats and a firearms violation.


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A West Virginia man is no longer facing jail time after being accused of extorting a woman from Annandale over her citizenship status.

The Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office decided last Wednesday (June 11) not to prosecute the 51-year-old man, according to court records, though no reason was explicitly provided.


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A former CIA analyst will spend the next three years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to improperly sharing top secret national defense information.

Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, was sentenced yesterday (Wednesday) to a total of 37 months in prison — down from the maximum possible sentence of 20 years.


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Two men accused of striking and killing pedestrians while driving under the influence pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter last month.

Carlos Nunez Morales and Michael Rambudhan, both residents of Woodbridge, are set to be sentenced in August for their roles in the pair of 2024 crashes. According to statute, each man faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for the manslaughter charge alone.


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A former Fairfax County elementary school teacher is unlikely to see the inside of a jail cell for allegedly sexually assaulting two of his students.

John Barger, who taught music at Fairview Elementary School in Fairfax Station, received a six-month suspended sentence on May 23, meaning he will only face incarceration if he fails to follow certain guidelines during a one-year probationary period.


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A former U.S. Army soldier is facing a possible sentence of life in prison for shaking his newborn baby twice and sexually assaulting her mother when he was stationed in Fort Belvoir more than a decade ago.

Austin Blair Johnson pleaded guilty last Friday (May 30) to sexual abuse and two counts of assault — one of which led to the permanent disability of a baby, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a press release.


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An Oakton-based doctor who admitted to improperly prescribing opioid and amphetamine pills was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison earlier this week.

David Allingham, 65, authorized renewals of medications without providing physical examinations of patients during a nearly five-year period, federal prosecutors said.


Countywide

The Fairfax County Courthouse will be closed again tomorrow (Friday) due to ongoing technical issues.

All courts fully suspended operations today (Thursday) to address “ongoing technical difficulties” that the county hoped would be quickly resolved. When announcing this afternoon that the closure will be extended a day, the county elaborated that the issue is related to the courthouse’s “electronic access control system.”


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A Springfield man will serve more than three decades in prison for his reported efforts to collect and send funds to the Islamic State group.

Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa, 35, was sentenced to 30 years and four months in prison yesterday (Wednesday) by a U.S. District Court judge in Alexandria after a jury convicted him in December on multiple charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization.


Countywide

A Fairfax County School Board member accused of defrauding a company he is a part owner of out of more than $1.5 million has stepped away as chairman of the board’s budget committee.

Kyle McDaniel, an at-large representative, no longer oversees the committee, having willingly ceded the position to vice chair Rachna Sizemore Heizer in recent weeks, he confirmed to FFXnow.


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