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Classified, Page 15 Classified, ❖ Sports, Page 12 ❖ Cavalier Calendar, Page 10 Country Sports, Page 12 Radio-Video ammer/The Connection Man Sentence in News, Page 3 1992 Rape Case News, Page 3 Photo by Robbie h Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comMay 14-20, 2009 Volume XXIII, Number 19 online at www.connectionnewspapers.comFairfax Connection ❖ May 14-20, 2009 ❖ 1 News Home Improvements and Repairs that Always Get an A+ Fully Insured Class A Contractor George Mason University Police Officers Emily Ross and City of Fairfax Police Of- Andrew Galle ficer Robert Mignon by Photos MADD Honors Public Safety Robbie Hammer Personnel others Against Drunk Driving honored area M /The Connection public safety officials for their work in keeping drunk drivers off the road during the 18th Annual Awards for Excel- lence in Community Service and Public Safety on May 8. Here are the officers who were recognized that either serve the Fairfax area Virginia State Police Fairfax County Police or are stationed there. Trooper Cory Kusick Officer John Wayne Moss Come home to Andersen© • Replace with Original 400 SERIES Andersen Windows • Entire Window Frame, Sill & Trim Replacement • Tilt-Easy Cleaning • High-Performing Glass • Maintenance-Free Fibrex Sills • Grille Options Available Andersen Warranty • Professional Installation • Free Estimate POST BUILDERS, INC • 703-780-1051 2 ❖ Fairfax Connection ❖ May 14-20, 2009 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Fairfax Connection Editor Michael O’Connell News 703-917-6440 or [email protected] Radio Host ‘Dukes’ It Out in Fairfax Local radio personality Chad Dukes releases his first film. By Justin Fanizzi The Connection fter duking it out with the Junkies at a Spring Break Party and battling the mysterious Mr. X, the Main Event AMafia has finally encountered a worthy adversary: the “Undead World Order.” Pitting the Main Event Mafia, radio personality and Burke na- by Photo tive Chad “Nash” Dukes’ pro-wrestling troupe, against a rival wrestling team consisting of zombies, the film “The Undead World Order” premiered Thursday night, Jullia O'Donoghue April 30, before a packed-to-capac- “Go into it with an ity Hard Times Cafe in Fairfax. Dukes, co-host of “The Big O and open mind, and you Dukes Show,” airing on WJFK will enjoy it.” weekdays from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., created the film after putting to- — Chad Dukes gether nearly 20 short movies fea- /The Connection turing the Main Event Mafia. “We did have reservations about doing a feature length film, but Chad knows what he wants.” Said Beau Schembechler, WJFK sales coordinator and Mafia member. “I’ve never seen anyone work harder or put as much effort and passion into a side project.” The movie was just the latest in a string of successes for Dukes, Burke native Chad ‘Nash’ Dukes, center, watches the premiere of his first film at See From Radio, Page 5 Fairfax’s Hard Times Café on April 30. 15-Year Sentence for Fair Lakes Rape Virginia’s Division of Forensic Sciences. pen. Pollard has been incarcerated since his Judge, victim reluctantly accept agreement When it was entered into the Virginia arrest in February 1993, so 30 years will DNA Databank, it matched that of Pollard, have passed in 2023. in case that stretches back 17 years. of no fixed address. His DNA had previously Before sentencing Pollard, Judge Schell been entered into the databank after he was said it was clear to him that the victim By Bonnie Hobbs ish class in Falls Church and drove home. convicted of an unrelated felony. “The fo- wanted this case resolved and him to ac- The Connection She parked her car inside a garage on Hunt rensics lab came up with Mr. Pollard as the cept the plea agreement. “In her letter to Club Circle and began walking toward her contributor of the DNA found on the victim’s me, the victim said, ‘This settlement does either the judge imposing the sen- apartment complex. clothing, etc., to the exclusion of better than not establish justice on my behalf, nor on Ntence, nor the victim on whose Then, said Deputy Commonwealth’s At- the population of the world,” behalf of other victims, and I behalf he did so, were particularly torney Ian Rodway, “An individual came said Rodway. want you to accept it with pleased that Charles Lamonte Pollard re- up behind her, put his hand over her mouth On April 18, 2008, police ar- profound regrets,’” read ceived just 15 years in prison for rape, rob- and something in her neck and directed her rested Pollard and charged him Schell. “’I want nothing more bery and abduction with intent to defile. back to the garage.” with rape, abduction and rob- to do with this and I want to “I received a letter from the victim which The assailant demanded money and she bery with intent to defile. On get on with my life.’” indicates that she reluc- gave him $30 from her Friday, May 8, in Circuit Court, He then imposed the sen- tantly accepts the plea purse, but that wasn’t he was sentenced according to Photo File tence, plus five years active agreement,” said “She’ll feel the enough for him. “He an agreement reached earlier probation upon Pollard’s re- Fairfax County Circuit impact of this walked her behind a by Rodway and Frank. lease from prison. “There are Court Judge David car and raped her,” said Pollard received 20 years in serious concerns by the vic- Schell. Doing so closed [crime], the rest of Rodway. “Another car prison, with 15 years sus- tim as to the terms of the plea a horrific chapter in her came in and passed by, pended, for each charge. Each Pollard agreement,” said the judge. life and kept her from her life.” so he pulled her down, of these sentences will run con- “But the court will accept it, having to relive her or- out of sight.” — Judge David Schell, secutively to each other, for 15 years total, in light of the totality of her letter.” deal during a trial. But when he began to and concurrently to the prison sentence Fairfax County Circuit Court Pollard then stood and said he used to be Actually, Pollard’s rape her again, said the Pollard is presently serving in Maryland. If an alcoholic and drug user. “But I’m 50, I’ve punishment was a long prosecutor, she he’s released from prison there within the turned my life around now, I’m a Christian time in coming because screamed and he ran away. Later, police col- next 15 years, he’ll return to Virginia to and I’m a different person than I was then,” the crimes happened in Fair Lakes in 1992. lected her clothing and the forensic evi- serve the balance of his sentence here. he said. Because of substance-abuse issues at that dence obtained from her person. Convicted of first-degree rape in Frederick Schell, though, had the last word. “I’m time, he “has no recollection of these However, the state forensic lab wasn’t as County, Md., Pollard was sentenced to life happy you’ve turned your life around,” he events,” said his attorney, Robert Frank. But technologically advanced then, as it is to- imprisonment on May 11, 1994. Rodway said. “But I want you to recognize that this the victim will never forget. day, so no arrest was made for almost 16 said he would have to serve 30 years there victim has had her life turned around and On Nov. 3, 1992, a 36-year-old Fair Lakes years. But in August 2004, Det. Mark before the governor would even consider it can’t be undone. ... She’ll feel the impact woman attended an adult-education, Span- Pfeiffer resubmitted this evidence to releasing him, and that’s not likely to hap- of this the rest of her life.” www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Fairfax Connection ❖ May 14-20, 2009 ❖ 3 News Week in Fairfax Fairfax Man Still Wanted Following Sting Operation Prison Time for Remington A year-long, undercover po- Quick had previously supplied. He’s since been sen- lice operation at a shopping Fairfax woman, 18, tenced to 19 years in prison. center in Bailey’s Crossroads culminated, May 6, in 143 receives 2-year sentence BUT THERE’S more to Remington than her involve- criminal charges. Jeff ment with heroin, said her attorney, Bill Reichhardt, Baumgardt, 27, of 3100 block for distribution of heroin. Police Photo on May 8, in federal court. Her family calls her sweet of Ranger Road in Fairfax, is and gentle, and a Fairfax County School Board mem- wanted on a charge of distribu- By Bonnie Hobbs ber described her as “a distinguished, young artist.” tion of stolen property. The Connection Yet she had serious problems. Operation Build America was “Her parents watched her spiral downhill for years, launched in May 2008 to better ne thing became clear during Jessica due to drug and mental-health issues,” said Jeff Baumgardt understand the criminal activ- Remington’s sentencing, Friday morn- Reichhardt. “[Substance-abuse treatment facility] ity taking place in and around ing, May 8, in U.S. District Court. She Crossroads called her ‘struggling, but making it.’” the Build America Shopping Center in the 3800 block of O was as much a victim of heroin as a In the heroin ring, he said, there were people who South George Mason Drive.