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-- Bill Brubaker
Fairfax county
Charges Dropped in Yuletide Attack
Fairfax County prosecutors dismissed charges yesterday against one of three teenagers accused of attacking a 14-year-old McLean boy on Christmas Eve and punching out his front teeth.
The victim told police that as he walked along Westmoreland Street in the McLean area with two friends, two other teenagers climbed out of a sport-utility vehicle and began punching him in the face, knocking out teeth that had just been repaired with seven years of orthodontal work. Another youth allegedly recorded the beating with his cellphone video camera, police said.
But despite two search warrants, Fairfax police were unable to find a video on the phone of the Falls Church area 16-year-old. Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Gregory O. Holt told Fairfax juvenile court Judge David Schell that "based on the facts, we do not believe we can show he was part of the attack" and asked Schell to dismiss the malicious-wounding charge, which Schell did.
The two other teenagers charged in the beating, James Clarke and Anthony Nelli, both 16, were certified by the juvenile court in April to stand trial as adults and were indicted last month on aggravated malicious-wounding charges.
-- Tom Jackman
