Ten Charged in Fairfax Heroin Ring

( Alexandria , VA ) -Joshua Randolph Quick, 21, of Centreville, Virginia, David Elliot Schreider, 20, of Centreville, Virginia, Lokesh Rawat, 19, of Centreville, Virginia, Daniel Richard Nash, 19, of Centreville, Virginia, Tayler Leigh Gibson, 19, of Centreville, Virginia, Anna Lucille Richter, 20, of Centreville, Virginia, Jessica Reynolds Remington, 19, of Fairfax, Virginia, Ashleigh Lynn Shade, 19, of Fairfax, Virginia, Skylar Marti Schnippel, 19, of Centreville, Virginia, and a tenth individual were all charged with being part of a heroin distribution ring operating primarily in Fairfax County, Virginia. All except Schnippel were charged with conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. Schnippel was charged with distribution of heroin resulting in death. Dana J. Boente, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Colonel David Rohrer, Chief of Police, Fairfax County Police Department, and Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office made the announcement in “Operation Smackdown” after the case was unsealed this afternoon upon the arrests of Schreider, Rawat, Nash, and Remington.

According to Court documents, since the summer of 2007, a group of heroin dealers and users purchased heroin in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, to use and sell the drugs in the Centreville area. The heroin ring is responsible for multiple overdoses and at least three heroin-related deaths since December 2007. Quick and one other defendant are charged with distributing heroin that caused one user to overdose and be hospitalized in August 2007. Schnippel is charged with distributing heroin that caused the death of that same user in March 2008. As a result, those three defendants will face mandatory 20-year sentences with the possibility of life in prison. The remaining defendants each face mandatory five-year sentences with the possibility of 40 years in prison.

This case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Fairfax County Police Department and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Erik R. Barnett, Daniel J. Grooms and Lauren A. Wetzler.

The public is reminded that the charges in a criminal complaint are mere allegations and that defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.

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