Crime & Safety
Six-Month Sentence in Old Ox Road Arson
The 2011 fire caused $500,000 in damages to businesses in a shopping center.
A judge earlier this month sentenced a woman to six months in prison – a five year sentence with four and a half years suspended – and ordered her to pay $1,000 in restitution for arson that resulted in $500,000 in damages to a shopping center along Old Ox Road.
Sonia Grimaldi entered an Alford plea on March 1 on one count of arson.
On July 31, 2011, Loudoun County Fire & Rescue responded to reports of heavy smoke from an occupied shopping center on the 46000 block of Old Ox Road and brought the fire under control within an hour. Of the damages, $350,000 worth occurred to the Super Latin Grocery and Deli.
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The Loudoun Fire Marshal’s Office investigated the fired with assistance from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. An accelerant detection canine unit alert on multiple occasions during the investigation, while surveillance video and laboratory analysis led to Grimaldi.
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