Former Arlington Commonwealth's Attorney Theo Stamos is taking a top job in the Virginia Attorney General's Office. Stamos lost her reelection bid in 2019, defeated in the Democratic primary by now-Commonwealth's Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti. Once Arlington's top prosecutor, today Stamos was named the state's Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice and Public Safety. After her
Arlington law enforcement officials are launching a program to help people with addictions get help without jail time. "Operation Safe Station" allows the Office of the Magistrate to waive charges on people with an addiction who turn themselves and their drugs in, and ask for help. "Forgoing a prosecution and connecting individuals to treatment professionals
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This past Friday, ABC true-crime show "20/20" threw a spotlight on the 1998 homicide of an Arlington woman and the acquittal of a major suspect, her then-fiancé, last year. In "The Confession?" ABC went on a deep dive into the death of Andrea Cincotta in her Arlington apartment. It explained how a confession 20 years
(Updated at 10:25 p.m.) The top prosecutor in Arlington and Falls Church has lost her bid for re-election. In the most closely watched local race in today's Democratic primary, incumbent Commonwealth's Attorney Theo Stamos has been defeated by challenger Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, who ran a campaign centered on criminal justice reform. Tafti has 52% of the vote