B4 by Jennifer Buske
The chairman of the Prince William Board of County Super- visors is calling on Virginia legis- lators to pass a law cracking down on illegal immigration similar to a controversial Ari- zona measure. Board Chairman Corey A.
Stewart (R-At Large) said he will spend the rest of the year lobby- ing the General Assembly to pass legislation that enhances law en- forcement powers to capture, de- tain and deport illegal aliens; curbs illegal day laboring; and creates specific state penalties for illegal immigrants. He called
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KLMNO Pr. William leader wants Virginia to emulate Arizona
the effort the “Virginia Rule of Law Campaign.” Prince William has received
national attention for its own crackdown on illegal immigra- tion. The county’s law, which was enacted in 2007 and modified in 2008, requires that police offi- cers inquire into the immigra- tion status of all people who are arrested on suspicion of violat- ing a state or local law. The Arizona law, signed in April, gives police wide latitude to check the residency status of anyone who they have “reason- able suspicion” is an illegal im- migrant. “We need to bring the rule of law to all of Virginia,” Stewart
Wone conspiracy trial moves ahead
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at this point” but added that there’s a “higher standard” that applies for the verdict. Leibovitz, a former prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia, is the sole arbiter because the defense re- quested that the judge, and not a jury, hear the trial. Prosecutors did not object to the defense’s re- quest. Wone, 32, was stabbed three times in the chest on the evening of Aug. 2, 2006, after he asked to stay at Price’s home at 1509 Swann St. NW. Price, 39, shares the house
with Ward, 40, and Zaborsky, 44; the three housemates say they are in a committed romantic rela- tionship. Wone arrived at the house about 10:30 p.m. after working late at his job as general counsel for Radio Free Asia. He wanted to stay there rather than commute to his home in Oakton, where he lived with his wife, Katherine. The Wone family has filed a $20million wrongful death lawsuit against the house- mates. No one has been charged with killing Wone. Prosecutors said
the defendants altered the crime scene because they know who killed Wone and are protecting the killer. The men claim an in- truder came through their un- locked back door and stabbed Wone as he slept. The house- mates were sleeping in their own bedrooms, they said. Legal experts in the District
say it is rare for judges to issue acquittals after prosecutors com- plete their case. Still, after the judge an- nounced her decision, the six de- fense attorneys asked for an addi- tional day to go over their witness list and prepare their defense. Leibovitz denied their request. Prosecutors had called about 30 witnesses; the defense plans to call about five or six after de- termining their availability. “We’re scrambling, your hon-
or,” said Thomas G. Connolly, Za- borsky’s attorney. The first defense witness was Nicholas Petraco, a forensic con- sultant with the New York police crime laboratory. Petraco testi- fied that there was no way to de- termine whether fibers found on the knife at the scene came from the shirt Wone was wearing or from a bloodied cotton towel that
MARK GAIL/THE WASHINGTON POST Bernie Grimm, Joseph R. Price’s attorney, called the judge’s ruling “the correct decision at this point.”
was left next to Wone. Petraco said the fibers found on the knife “could have come from the T- shirt.” Prosecutors had argued that the knife found at the scene was planted by the men and could not be the murder weapon because
there were no fibers from Wone’s shirt. An expert for the prosecu- tion had testified earlier that the fibers came from the towel and not the shirt, as if someone had wiped the knife in the towel. Pe- traco later acknowledged that fo- rensic scientists often disagree,
and some findings might differ depending on the quality and type of equipment used in test- ing. The defense attorneys said
they could conclude their case as early as next week.
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by Clarence Williams An employee of a Northeast
Washington check-cashing store was fatally shot Thursday and a second man was severely beaten during an apparent robbery at- tempt, D.C. police said. Officers called to a store in the 2500 block of Benning Road about 10:45 a.m. found Prabhjot
Singh with a gunshot wound to the head, said Officer Hugh Ca- rew, a police spokesman. Singh, 30, who lived in Acco-
keek, was taken to Washington Hospital Center, where he was later pronounced dead. He was a relative of the store’s owner, au- thorities said. The second man was beaten with an object that police didn’t identify. He was treated at a hos-
by Tom Jackman Once a week, the 7-year-old boy
got a treat: a doughnut from 7- Eleven before school. On Wednes- day morning, at the 7-Eleven on Main Street in Fairfax City, he hopped out of the car and went to his mother’s window for the treat money.
But this time, a man ap- proached and grabbed the boy’s arm. “Come on, you’re coming with me,” the man told the boy. “No, he’s not,” his horrified mother said, grabbing the other arm, the mother said in an inter- view Thursday.
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helped the boy
back into the car, and then the man stood in the parking lot until police arrived. Charles R. Barbour, 47, of Alex- andria was arrested and charged with abduction. He was being held in the Fairfax County jail Thursday night with no bond. The mother said the incident
began at about 7:15 a.m., lasted for several strange minutes and trau- matized both her 7-year-old and her 4-year-old daughter, who wit- nessed it from the back seat. “He was shaking like a leaf” af-
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ter strapping himself back in the car, his mother said of the boy. Af- ter police had arrested the man, “he started screaming and crying, and he wouldn’t get out of his seat. He said, ‘I’m safe in here.’ ” The Washington Post generally does not name crime witnesses or victims. The boy’s sister woke up crying throughout the night Wednesday and didn’t want to go into her pre- school Thursday. “I don’t want to leave” my brother, she told her mother. “That man touched my brother.” The weekly routine for the 7- year-old involved getting dough- nut money from his mother, who would then watch through the glass doors as he picked out his pastry and took it to the front counter. But as he waited for the money, the man emerged quickly from a nearby pay phone. As the mother and the man both held one of the boy’s arms, the man kept telling her: “I just want to talk to him. It’s all right.” Even as the woman picked up her phone and called police, “he just stood there. I kept telling him, ‘Take your hands off my child.’ I think I was flipping out because he wouldn’t move.” People came out of the 7-Eleven, near the intersection of routes 29 and 50 in the Kamp Washington area, but declined to help. The mother called police, and the man stood and listened. The woman in the next parking space over of- fered to help, walked over, and then the man backed off but con- tinued to circle the car. Even when the mother used her cellphone to snap a picture of the man, he didn’t flee. He was still there when officers arrived. “I’m grateful that nothing else happened,” the mother said. “Be- cause so much else could have happened.”
jackmant@washpost.com One man killed, one beaten at D.C. check-cashing business
pital and released, said Capt. Mi- chael Farish of the homicide branch. It was not clear whether he was a worker or a customer. Two men were seen fleeing the store. One of them was possibly wearing a mask, Farish said. Investigators think the attacks happened during a robbery at- tempt, but officials did not say whether any money was taken.
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said. “As long as the federal gov- ernment shows no interest in se- curing the border and no interest in internal enforcement to pro- mote self-deportation, then states and localities will have to pick up the slack.” Nancy Lyall of the immigrant advocacy group Mexicans With- out Borders called the proposal “irresponsible.” Lyall said that there is a need for immigration reform but that it should be left up to the federal government, not the state. “This type of legislation targeting peo- ple who have been a productive part of society for most of their lives is just unheard of and un- just,” Lyall said.
Stewart said that he is working
on a final draft but that he wants the legislation to direct Virginia law enforcement officials to de- termine, in any lawful contact, the legal status of an individual. Another key point of the bill, he said, would be to prohibit juris- dictions from calling themselves sanctuaries for illegal immi- grants. Stewart said his proposal would go further than what Prince William did in 2007. He said the county’s law was a suc- cess — that illegal immigrants fled and that overall crime dropped to a 15-year low in 2009. But Lyall said the immigration law in Prince William hurt the
county, damaging the relation- ship between police and some members of the community, draining county funds and hurt- ing businesses as people fled the area. The county’s 2009 crime re-
port said that of the roughly 2,000 people arrested last year in connection with major crimes, 121 were determined to be illegal immigrants. Of the 12,254 people arrested for other offenses, in- cluding drunken driving, prosti- tution and fraud, 774 lacked legal status. A more comprehensive il- legal immigration report on the county’s efforts is due out this year.
buskej@washpost.com
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2010 LOCAL DIGEST THE REGION
‘McGruff’ assailant back on duty
Shawn Brim, the Metro em- ployee who punched an off-duty police officer dressed as McGruff the Crime Dog, is back on the job as a bus operator, Metro said. Metro spokeswoman Lisa
Farbstein said she received notice Thursday that Brim was back on the job. On Feb. 28, 2009, Brim pulled his bus over near Spring Road and 14th Street NW in the District, disembarked and punched the head an off-duty po- lice officer dressed as McGruff who educates children about crime prevention. Metro fired Brim on March 6,
2009. “We terminated him for vi- olating workplace rules,” Farb- stein said earlier this month. Brim was found guilty of simple assault in D.C. Superior Court and received a 15-day suspended sentence and six months of pro- bation.
An arbitrator recently decided
that Brim’s actions, although ille- gal and inappropriate, were not undertaken with malicious in- tent. The arbitrator reduced Brim’s penalty to a 30-day sus- pension and awarded him back pay for the rest of the time. Metro said Brim underwent re-
training before reporting to duty. — Ann Scott Tyson
MARYLAND
Club sues over Fillmore deal The owner of the District’s 9:30
club is suing to prevent Maryland from giving Montgomery County $4 million to help pay for a Live Nation venue in downtown Silver Spring, saying government offi- cials are hiding the project’s real costs.
Live Nation, a major force in the music business with artists such as U2, Madonna and the Ea- gles, plans to hold rock-style con- certs for about 2,000 standing pa- trons at the Colesville Road ven- ue. Ground is expected to be broken later in the year on what will be known as Fillmore Silver Spring. The lawsuit filed this week in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court by IMP Inc. and co-owner Seth Hurwitz challenges the deal. The suit says state officials would be breaking the law if they give the county money, claiming that Montgomery has provided only “skimpy” information about the project’s true costs, despite requirements by the General As- sembly for more information. “It’s bad enough they’re laying
off teachers, cutting budgets and expecting everyone else to make sacrifices at the same time they’re spending $8 million to build a rock club, but the least the gov- ernment can do is follow the law in the process,” Hurwitz said. No hearing date has been set. A spokesman for County Exec-
utive Isiah Leggett (D) disputed the claims and said the county has “met the conditions” re- quired by the General Assembly, which also has been affirmed in writing by the chairmen of the budget and appropriations com- mittees.
— Miranda S. Spivack THE DISTRICT
Man fatally shot in Northeast foyer A Northeast Washington man
was fatally shot in the foyer of his apartment building Thursday, D.C. police said. Police officers sent to the 2100 block of 3rd Street about 1 p.m. on a report of a shooting found an unconscious man who had been shot more than once, officer Paul Metcalf, a police spokesman, said. The victim, identified as Calvin
Godsey, 38, was taken to a hospi- tal, where he was pronounced dead, Metcalf said. Police ask anyone with infor-
mation about the shooting to call 202-727-9099.
— Clarence Williams
91-year sentence in shooting of teen
An 18-year-old Northeast
Washington man was sentenced in D.C. Superior Court on Thurs- day to 91 years for the January 2008 shooting death of a District teenager, the U.S. Attorney’s of- fice announced. Antonio R. Harvey, 18, received the sentence for the shooting of Julian Agurs, 17, from Judge Mi- chael L. Rankin. Agurs had turned 17 less than a
day before he was killed. He was celebrating with friends when he was wounded in a drive-by shooting while leaving a carryout in the 1300 block of Rhode Island Avenue NE. He died soon after.
— David P. Marino-Nachison
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