Over the years, my wife and I have had the good fortune to sponsor 10 international students in the United States. Five were from Western Europe, four were from former Soviet-bloc countries and one was from Taiwan. Nine of the students lived with us for a year each while they attended classes at Gar-Field High…
ALEXANDRIA — The gang leader accused of masterminding a plot to murder Brenda Paz boasted in a jailhouse interview that he had followers on the outside who would kill someone on his orders, a jury was told yesterday. In a March 2003 interview with Arlington County police, Denis Rivera said he commanded the kind of…
ALEXANDRIA — The first link in the chain of events that led to the violent death of Brenda Paz apparently was the product of her own carelessness, jurors were told yesterday. Testifying in the trial of four gang members charged with plotting and carrying out Paz’s murder, Maria Gomez said a purse she had allowed…
An 18-year-old Manassas man was arrested after he and three other people allegedly beat two people following an argument at the Manassas Mall on Wednesday afternoon, Prince William County police said. Mark Preston Johnson of 8182 Peakwood Court, Apt. 5, was charged with two counts of assault and battery for beating an 18-year-old man and…
ALEXANDRIA – Prosecutors yesterday rested their case against four members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang charged with the murder of a gang member turned informant, 17-year-old Brenda Paz. The government wrapped up its case after eliciting testimony from 47 witnesses over three weeks, including more than a dozen current or former members of the…