Crime & Safety

Two Reston Court Cases Moved to September

Change of date for Reston Zoo director, Dunkin' Donuts employee hearings in Fairfax County General District Court .

Abir Ail, t will have a preliminary hearing in Fairfax County General District Court on Sept. 19.

Ali, who was an employee of Patel's, was scheduled to appear in court Monday, but prosecutors asked for a continuance.

He had blunt force trauma to the upper body. Police in Prince George's County, MD later arrested Ali, an family aquaintance of Patel's who had helped him open the new at Hunters Woods Village Center just days earlier.

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Also getting a new court date: Meghan Mogensen, the director

Mogensen, 26, was supposed to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Aug. 23. Her hearing has been changed to Sept. 28. Both of the charges against her are misdemeanors.

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Mogensen was arrested in June following an investigation by police after an employee complained an ill wallaby was inumanely euthanized in January.

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