Overview
- Arlington–Falls Church Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, in a 166-page filing Tuesday, said there was no probable cause to charge activist Barbara Wien under Virginia’s harassment law.
- The filing said the flyers from August and September listed Stephen Miller’s Arlington address and a QR code urging people to press Congress to investigate, but they did not call for action at his home.
- Dehghani-Tafti asked the court to order destruction of phone records taken in a state search and to require sworn statements that the data were not shared outside her office after a judge had barred such sharing.
- A separate federal probe has not yielded charges, and a magistrate judge twice rejected the FBI’s bids for a search warrant for Wien’s phone.
- House Republicans are demanding investigative files and accusing the local prosecutor of hindering the case, and the Miller family moved to military housing after the neighborhood protests.