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   Serial looter committed serious crimes, never spent a day in   
   prison   
      
      
      
   Arlington County commonwealth's attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti   
   (D.) and Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney Steve Descano   
      
   Two George Soros-backed prosecutors in suburban Washington,   
   D.C., bounced a serial looter who committed multiple grand   
   larcenies and assaulted a cop between their offices for years   
   without a felony conviction.   
      
   Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney Steve Descano (D.) and   
   Arlington County commonwealth's attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti   
   (D.) since 2020 dismissed or declined to prosecute a 25-year-old   
   Maryland resident for nearly a dozen charges related to larceny.   
   The looting incidents amounted to thousands of dollars in stolen   
   merchandise and include felony offenses, including two grand   
   larcenies and one assault on a police officer, making the   
   offender eligible for years behind bars. The prosecutors found   
   the looter guilty of just a few misdemeanors. No verdict levied   
   more than a few hundred dollars in fines, and he served no time   
   in prison.   
      
   The out-of-state offender, Ronald Thomas, spent virtually no   
   time in jail after his arrests thanks to bail reform policies   
   instituted by Descano and Dehghani-Tafti. At least five times he   
   was charged for committing crimes in one jurisdiction while on   
   pretrial release in another. He was twice charged for committing   
   larcenies within a day of having similar larceny charges   
   dropped—with one of those incidents happening in the same county.   
      
   The case exemplifies the degree to which lightened sentencing   
   can embolden repeat offenders. Studies have shown that releasing   
   defendants before their trial increases crime. A few years after   
   Cook County, Ill., instituted bail reform, a 2020 study by the   
   University of Utah found a 45 percent increase in the number of   
   released defendants who were charged with committing new crimes   
   and a 33 percent bump in released defendants charged with   
   violent crimes.   
      
   "When you lower the likelihood of pretrial detention through   
   bail reform, you increase the number of pretrial defendants who   
   are going to be out on the street," Rafael Mangual, a senior   
   fellow and head of research for policing and public safety at   
   the Manhattan Institute, told the Washington Free Beacon.   
   "There's going to be an increase in crime."   
      
   Those subsequent crimes also tend to be more violent. "You   
   always hear about the nonviolent drug offender or the nonviolent   
   property crime," Mangual said. "The reality is that there's   
   actually a lot of overlap between who commits violent offenses   
   and who commits lower-level misdemeanors."   
      
   Thomas is no exception. In between when his Virginia cases were   
   opened and dropped, he was charged with theft, robbery, and   
   assault in neighboring Maryland.   
      
   Democratic megadonor George Soros donated more than half-a-   
   million dollars to Descano's and Dehghani-Tafti's 2019   
   campaigns, helping them oust veteran prosecutors who had served   
   a combined 60 years in their counties. Both ran on a progressive   
   criminal justice platform, promising to end cash bail in most   
   cases and reduce incarceration. They've kept those promises and   
   pointed to a general crime decrease as proof of their platform's   
   success. Their critics have countered that fewer convictions can   
   mask the true crime rate.   
      
   "You can't claim crime has decreased when you've also bragged   
   about not prosecuting over 20 types of crimes," Virginia   
   attorney general Jason Miyares (R.) told the Washington Free   
   Beacon. "The crime hasn't gone away—only the prosecution."   
      
   Miyares also told the Free Beacon the Virginia prosecutors'   
   pattern of light prosecution will lead to more victims.   
      
   "Just because a crime is ‘nonviolent' does not mean there was no   
   victim or that no innocent life has been affected," Miyares   
   said. "These far-left prosecutors repeatedly dropped charges   
   against a serial larcenist and allowed him to commit more crimes   
      
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