HCI-endorsed Virginia Legislator’s Daughter
Convicted of Armed Robbery

She used her parents’ car to commit the crimes, too.

Story can be found here

March 22, 2002

KeepAndBearArms.com — The Associated Press reports on March 22, 2001 the “daughter of a leading Northern Virginia state legislator pleaded guilty in federal court to armed robbery.”

“Ashley E. Devolites, 20, admitted in court documents that she and two men from New York state robbed a string of gas stations last summer, using a 1990 Honda registered to her parents.”

“Devolites’ mother, Jeannemarie, is a Republican whip in the House of Delegates and has represented part of Fairfax County since 1998.”

Ashley is staring down the barrel of a 27-year prison sentence. The string of robberies lasted for five weeks and “stretched from New York to Virginia.”

“Republican” Delegate Jeannemarie Devolites was endorsed by Handgun Control, Inc., now known as the Brady Campaign to Prohibit Self Defense. HCI’s endorsement of Devolites was reported in both the Washington Post and in the October 12, 1999 edition of Virginia’s Richmond Times-Dispatch (Page B1). They endorsed the Republican Delegate in her re-election bid — over her Democrat challenger, George Lovelace.

According to court documents, Ashley Devolites was the trio’s lookout and was also responsible for “selecting targets in Virginia.” A thinking person must wonder if the criteria she used in determining which places to criminally assault with guns included whether or not the gas station attendants might be armed.