Fairfax Prosecutors Seek Warrant for Murder Suspect Who Fled on 48-Hour Mental Health Pass
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 18
Fairfax Prosecutors Seek Warrant for Murder Suspect Who Fled on 48-Hour Mental Health Pass
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 18
Summary
Aug. 5, Fairfax County prosecutors asked a judge to issue an arrest warrant for Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda, a murder defendant who left the U.S. on July 6 during an authorized weekend pass from a Virginia psychiatric facility.
Court records show he boarded a one-way Turkish Airlines flight from Dulles to Tajikistan via Istanbul after the facility approved unsupervised community visits of up to 48 hours.
Those visits let him stay at a taxpayer-funded Alexandria apartment, even though a judge had ruled in June that he could not be released from custody and inpatient hospitalization without further court order.
Toshpulodzoda was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2019 fatal stabbing of Mohammad Hemmatian and was committed to a state psychiatric hospital in 2022.
Prosecutors said they opposed his release at annual reviews, and a bench warrant now means he would be arrested and extradited to Virginia if he re-enters the United States.