Kevin Alexander Lemus was discharged from prison for the second time in a month this past may thanks to one of Virginia’s top leftist prosecutors. Four months later and Lemus has been arrested, again, for murder.
Lemus confessed to second-degree murder for the shooting of Darlin Ariel Diaz Flores. Fairfax County police made the announcement on Wednesday. Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney Steve Descano a leftist, Soros backed democrat, released Lemus without bail in April on gun and drug charges. In May, Descano released Lemus again! This after he was charged for drug possession and having violated his pretrial release. Lemus killed Flores four months later.
This is the latest instance in which progressive bail reform has allowed repeat offenders go, only to have teh criminal commit murder while free. Descano’s office has released or dropped charges on four offenders this year. All four perpetrators have gone on to kill. In June, Descano released a violent repeat offender on probation. He later beat an elderly homeless woman to death.
The leftist billionaire George Soros gave over half-a-million dollars to Descano’s initiative as part of a countrywide push to select progressive prosecutors. Many Soros-backed prosecutors have since gotten rid of bail and released offenders before their trial in an effort to reduce incarceration.
Virginia attorney general of the United States Jason Miyares (R.) told the Washington Free Beacon that “the Fairfax commonwealth’s attorney must do his job and fight for justice for victims, not criminals.”
Routinely giving repeat offenders light sentences and allowing them to quickly return to Virginia’s streets is not only disrespectful to the victims of violent crime, but encourages more crime and creates more victims,” Miyares said.
Maj. Ed O’Carroll said Lemus was “no stranger” to cops in Fairfax County, having more than 80 interactions with officers previously.
“We are all safer with Lemus behind bars,” O’Carroll said. “He chose to have a gun—not his first time. He chose to shoot a man and ultimately take a life Saturday night in Fairfax County. Now he will face his consequences for his actions.”
Descano’s office declined to comment but the numbers don’t lie.
Murders in Fairfax County have climbed 40 per-cent since Descano’s took office. They are set to outpace their 2021 levels, with at least 12 recorded murders so far this year.
Yet Descano reveals no indications of altering his program. In September, the prosecutor’s office dropped the majority of charges against a repeat offender who in February threatened officers with a loaded rifle. Given teh man’s record, he could have been sentenced for over a decade.
Thanks to Descano’s assistance, the criminal will only serve six months behind bars.
