Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda stood over the body of his landlord Mohammad Hemmatian in Vienna, Virginia in 2019 and told the people who found him, "I am guilty." Seven years later, on July 6, he boarded a Turkish Airlines flight from Washington Dulles International Airport to Istanbul, connected to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and vanished.
The facility gave him a 48-hour supervised pass. He used it to fly home.
That's the part that should stop you cold. Toshpulodzoda killed Hemmatian, was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and was committed to the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute in Falls Church in 2022 — a hospital ward, committed under court order. And on June 29, 2026 — barely a week before he boarded that plane — a court ruled he "remained mentally ill and in need of inpatient hospitalization."
A court confirmed he was still dangerous on June 29. On July 6, he was at Dulles.
Virginia State Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed the departure. An illegal immigrant who confessed to killing a man on American soil used American airports, American airlines, and American supervised release protocols to leave the country he was never supposed to be in.
The man who made this possible has a name: Steve Descano, Commonwealth's Attorney for Fairfax County since 2020. Descano — who received campaign funding from George Soros — has pursued 13 insanity agreements for accused murderers during his tenure, according to the New York Post. His office defended the Toshpulodzoda outcome by claiming there was "functionally no way to get a conviction at trial."
Thirteen insanity agreements for killers in a single jurisdiction. Virginians for Safe Communities had a sharper assessment: "They aren't crazy, he's just lazy." The numbers back them up. Across Virginia, only 50 killers received insanity pleas statewide — and no other jurisdiction produced more than two. Descano's office produced 13.
The pattern runs deeper. In 2022, Joshua Danehower shot and killed a charity CEO and was declared legally insane under an agreement from the same office. Descano has survived two recall efforts. The Department of Justice opened an investigation into his office in May.
The progressive prosecutor model runs on a claim: that the criminal justice system should treat mental illness rather than punish it. Treatment requires knowing where your patients are. A court confirmed Toshpulodzoda was still mentally ill and still dangerous on June 29. Twelve days later, the facility gave him a supervised pass and he used it to book an international flight. The United States has no extradition treaty with Tajikistan — verify before publishing, but if accurate, it belongs here.
That's what the theory looks like when someone actually uses it.
Thirteen insanity pleas in one county. Fifty statewide. A man who said "I am guilty" reclassified as not guilty. A 48-hour pass handed to someone a court had just confirmed was dangerous.
The U.S. does not have a extradition treaty with Tajikistan.
