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Road-Raging Driver Who 'Terrorized' Father In Virginia Finds Out Fate At Sentencing
A driver who was too fast and too furious is set to spend years behind bars in Virginia after a road rage incident involving a father and son in Loudoun County last fall. Ricardo Osiel Avilez Blanco, 28, was sentenced to serve eight years in the Virginia Department of Corrections with no time suspended for an attempted malicious wounding charge dating back to an episode that ended in the parking lot of Heritage High School in October 2023. According to prosecutors, on Oct. 14, 2023, a man was driving with his son in Leesburg when Avilez Blanco began to tailgate and aggressively f…
Police & Fire
Drug Dealer 'Destroying Community' In Loudoun County Gets Prison Time: Commonwealth's Attorney
A Virginia drug dealer who was busted with thousands of fentanyl pills will spend more than a decade in prison following his arrest in Loudoun County, authorities announced on Friday. Christian Murrell Adlam was ordered by a judge on Thursday, July 25, Adlam to serve 12 years and 10 months in prison, with an additional 23 years suspended, assuming "the satisfactory completion of ten years of probation." He was convicted of: Possessing a firearm while in the possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance; Abduction; Simple Robbery; Conspiracy to commit abduction. “We h…
Police & Fire
Children's Rapist Gets 3 Life Sentences In Prison, Officials In Loudoun County Say
A Loudoun County man who raped two children he was supposed to have been caring for over the course of two years will likely be spending the rest of his life behind bars. Brener Mateo Sorto was sentenced to three life sentences plus 15 years in prison before Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Matthew P. Snow on June 6. He was sentenced for two counts of rape of a child younger than thirteen years old, one count of sodomy of a child younger than thirteen years old, one count of aggravated sexual battery of a child younger than thirteen years old, and one count of indecent liberties take…
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Man Who Killed Dad, Popular Loudoun County Brewer, Photographed His Body Sentenced To Prison
A 23-year-old Loudoun County man has been sentenced to prison for the grisly 2022 murder of his father. Schuyler Lake, of Leesburg, was sentenced by Judge James P. Fisher to 40 years in prison with 22 years and 11 months suspended for the killing of his father, Dean Lake, 57, according to the Loudoun County Commonwealth's Attorney. The suspended sentence is conditioned upon the satisfactory completion of forty years of good behavior, compliance with Lake’s mental health treatment, and five years of supervised probation upon his release from incarceration. Schuyler Lake was charged wit…
Police & Fire
Speeding Driver Convicted In Fatal Valentine's Day PWC Wreck
A Prince William County jury found a speeding driver guilty for charges filed in a fatal Valentine's Day wreck in 2022. Marvin Anton Cabrera Martinez was convicted of one count of involuntary manslaughter, one count of reckless driving by speed, and one count of driving without an operator’s license last month, Commonwealth's Attorney Amy Ashworth said. Cabrera Martinez was going 84 mph in a 35 mph zone without a license, in a Jeep SUV seconds before he swerved to avoid another car that had partially turned into his lane of travel on Feb. 14, 2022 in Woodbridge, Ashworth said. He struck th…
Police & Fire
Leaf Blower Bandit Admits To Assaulting Woman With Debris, Killing BF In Fairfax County
The Manassas street sweeper who assaulted a woman with debris using his leaf blower before shooting and killing her angry boyfriend has pleaded guilty, Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano announced. Steven Green, 55, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and malicious wounding for the 2019 fatal shooting Miguel Leiva Hernandez in the Chantilly Park Shopping Center parking lot. The guilty plea comes after his March trial ended with a hung jury. Prosecutors say that Green was cleaning at the shopping center on May 24, 2019, when he had an altercation with Leiva Hernandez’s girlfriend, Myra Osori…
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Military Couple's 'Execution Style' Killer Learns His Fate In Fairfax County
A 22-year-old man accused of killing a prominent military couple outside of their Fairfax County home "execution style" will likely see out the rest of his days behind bars. Ronnie Marshall, of Washington DC, apparently came to the Springfield home of (Ret.) Colonel Brenda and Dr. Edward McDaniel in search of their son, Michael, with whom he worked, in late May 2021, according to the Washington Post. Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said Marshall was trying to burglarize the home, but he was chased away. He returned days later on May 26 to kill the beloved couple, after the d…
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Grieving Mom Of Arlington Teen Pens Scathing Letter Bashing Prosecutor
An Arlington mom feels the DUI driver who killed her 17-year-old son should've faced harsher punishment. In a scathing letter to elected officials published by ARL Now, Rose Kehoe urges them to withdraw support for the Commonwealth’s Attorney, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, who she says should've charged the young driver as an adult. Dehghani-Tafti is up for reelection as Commonwealth’s Attorney for Arlington County and Falls Church. The teen boy who struck Washington-Liberty High School senior Braylon Meade near the intersection of Old Dominion Drive and Williamsburg Boulevard, was found to have …
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Pedestrian Killed Crossing Busy Virginia Intersection, Police Say
Police say that a 63-year-old pedestrian was killed on Sunday morning crossing a road in Fairfax County. Fairfax resident Ligia Jeannette Herrera Betbader was crossing West Ox Road north shortly before 6 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9 near Legato Road when she was struck by a 2015 Honda Civic in the intersection, according to the Fairfield County Police Department. The driver remained at the scene following the crash. Officials said that emergency personnel responded to the scene of the crash and pronounced Betbeder dead at the scene. The initial investigation determined that neither speed nor …