By Derek Vanbuskirk
The criminal counts against a suspect with a history of arrests escalated to rape and abduction after Fairfax, Virginia’s Commonwealth’s Attorney dismissed a bevy of other charges, in a pattern that has led to a Justice Department (DOJ) investigation.
Juan Carlos Arevalo was arrested Tuesday for an assault in September in Falls Church. After a lengthy investigation, Sex Crimes Unit detectives gathered sufficient evidence to obtain warrants for Arevalo’s arrest, Fox 5 reported. (RELATED: City Officials Raise Somali Flag After Canceling Independence Day Fireworks)
In Fairfax County alone, Arevalo has been charged with, and then had dismissed, crimes including abduction by force and intimidation, petit larceny, assault and battery of a family member, and fleeing from law enforcement, according to Virginia Judiciary records.
The 46-year-old Arevalo was one of two suspects in a January pursuit connected to a felony abduction investigation that involved a Fairfax County Police helicopter, Virginia State Police, and the Alexandria Police Department. The fleeing vehicle was stopped with a PIT maneuver before the passenger took off. Arevalo was later found in a wooded area and taken into custody, The DC MD VA Live reported at the time.
Arevalo’s charges stemming from both the felony abduction investigation and the pursuit were later dismissed.
“How long until this illegal alien predator goes free again?” local watchdog Virginians for Safe Communities asked Wednesday.
The county’s commonwealth’s attorney, Steve Descano, is a George Soros-funded prosecutor who is actively being investigated by the DOJ for similar actions.
The DOJ probe is set to determine whether Descano’s office gave preferential treatment to illegal alien criminal defendants and discriminated against American citizens by dismissing the crimes of illegal aliens to prevent them from being deported.
Descano also faces pressure from federal lawmakers and from family members of victims in the county.
At a May House Judiciary Committee hearing focusing on the county’s failures, the mother of Stephanie Minter, who was allegedly stabbed to death at a county bus stop by a criminal illegal alien in February, criticized the county’s policies.
“When policies protect people who are known threats, innocent lives are put at risk. When warnings are ignored, families like mine pay the price. This is not just about Stephanie; this is about every mother, every parent, every child, every person who waits at a bus stop, walks home, or goes to work trusting that they’ll be safe,” the mother testified. “We cannot ignore this; we cannot look away. Compassion should never come at the cost of public safety. Care for one group should not mean danger for another.”
Similarly, another illegal alien whose charges had also been dismissed by Descano, Moises Domingo Rico Rosales, was arrested last week on charges of attempted abduction and indecent exposure.
Steve Descano lets a fifth of all killers in Fairfax County escape a conviction by agreeing to their plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which would almost certainly be rejected by a jury. Less than 1 percent of all killers are actually legally insane enough to qualify for an insanity plea, but Descano colludes with defense lawyers to accept what appear to be bogus insanity pleas.
A convicted criminal with a long history of arrests recently stabbed a woman to death in Fairfax County, due to the soft-on-crime policies of the local prosecutor, Steve Descano, who often drops charges against violent criminals, and agrees to short sentences that lead to violent criminals being swiftly released.
Descano let an illegal alien walk free even after he had confessed to participating in a prior murder. That enabled him to kill another person, notes the Washington Examiner: “Democrats are allowing people to be murdered by illegal immigrants so they can brag that they are not cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is the reality…in Fairfax County, Virginia.”
A convicted child rapist who avoided jail time thanks to Descano ended up running off with a missing child.
Descano received more than $600,000 in campaign support from a PAC funded entirely by leftist financier George Soros since 2019 and has survived two recall efforts over soft-on-crime policies.
Descano, a progressive Democrat, was elected Fairfax County’s Commonwealth’s Attorney after spending nearly a million dollars to unseat a moderate Democrat in a very close primary election. “The lion’s share ($601,369)” of Descano’s campaign funds “came from the Justice and Public Safety PAC, whose sole donor was George Soros, the liberal billionaire who finances progressive causes,” noted Jason Johnson in The Fairfax Times.
Fairfax County is Virginia’s most populous County, with over a million people. Democrats hold 9 of 10 seats on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
