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IIP ILiIN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE fir I .M$ 3 I 2015

EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA .' 1CLfcHK, U.S. UlSTRlcfcou

Alexandria Division !^^A

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ) Criminal Case 1:15-mj- I2*i)

v. ))

WOSSEN ASSAYE, )

)Defendant )

AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF CRIMINAL COMPLAINT

I, Timothy Alley, being duly sworn, state:

1. I am a Deputy United States Marshal with the United States Marshal Service. I

have been a Deputy United States Marshal since 2009.

2. The facts and information contained in this affidavit are based upon my training

and experience, participation in investigations, personal knowledge and observationsduring the

course of this investigation, as well as the observations of other agents and police officers

involved in this investigation. All observations not personally made by me were relayed to me

by the individuals who made them or are based on my review of records, documents and other

physical evidence obtained during the course of this investigation. This affidavit contains

information necessary to support probable cause. It is not intended to include each and every

fact and matter observed by me or known to the United States.

3. On March 20, 2015, law enforcement agents arrested WOSSEN ASSAYE in

connection with the robbery that day of the Apple Federal Credit Union, a federally insured

financial institution, located at 6831 Sir Viceroy Drive in the Alexandria area of Fairfax County,

Virginia. Later on March 20, 2015, the Honorable Theresa C. Buchanan, United States

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Magistrate Judge, United StatesDistrict Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, issued a

criminal complaint in the case United States v. WossenAssaye (l:15-mj-163), charging ASSAYE

with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

924(c).

4. On March 23,2015, ASSAYE appeared before the Honorable Michael S.

Nachmanoff and was ordered detained pending a preliminary hearing and remanded to the

custody of the United States Marshal Service.

5. On March 25, 2015, the Honorable Michael S. Nachmanoff, United States

Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, dismissed the

complaint without prejudice upon motion of the United States and issued a new criminal

complaint in the case UnitedStates v. WossenAssaye (l:15-mj-171), charging ASSAYE with

bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113(a).

6. On March 26, 2015, Judge Nachmanoff found the offense charged in that

complaint was supported by probable cause and ordered ASSAYE detained pending further

proceedings.

7. On March 27,2015, ASSAYE was transported from the Alexandria Detention

Center to Inova Fairfax Hospital, located at 3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, Virginia, for

medical treatment.

8. On March 31, 2015, while still receiving hospital care at Inova Fairfax Hospital

while under the custody of the United States Marshal Service, ASSAYE overpowered a guard,

took her service weapon, and fled the hospital.


CONCLUSION

9. Based on the foregoing, I believe probable cause exists to conclude that

WOSSEN ASSAYE has violated 18 U.S.C. 751(a), escaping from the custody of the Attorney

General and his authorized representative, and from an institution and facility in which he is

confined by direction of the Attorney General, and from custody under and by virtue of process

issued under the laws of the United States by a court, judge, and magistrate judge, and from the

custody of an officer and employee of the United States pursuant to lawful arrest, where the

custody and confinement is by virtue of an arrest on a charge of felony, to wit: Robbery of the

Apple Federal Credit Union, in the Alexandria area of Fairfax County, and I respectfully request

the issuance of a complaint and arrest warrant charging him with that offense.

Timothy Alley "N.United States'MatshaLService

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME THIS 3/ DAY OF MARCH 2015.

^jQ_/s/_Ivan D. Davis

United States Magistrate Judge


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