A Fairfax County man has been sentenced to one year in the city jail for the assaults of two women near Alexandria Metro stations last year, according to the Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.
Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Lisa Kemler sentenced 36-year-old Jeffrey Gary on Friday (March 20) to 10 years in jail, with all but one year suspended. Gary previously pleaded guilty to two felony counts of abduction and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery for the assaults of two women outside the Braddock Road and Potomac Yard Metro stations on May 30, 2025. Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter had pushed for a five-year active sentence and was disappointed in Kemler’s decision.
“While I respect the judge’s decision and understand the numerous competing factors to be considered by the presiding judge at sentencing, I am disappointed the Court did not punish the defendant’s behavior more sternly,” Porter said. “This case represents every woman’s worst nightmare: being accosted by an attacker while walking home alone.”
The prosecutor added, “My office will closely monitor the defendant’s compliance with supervised probation. As always, at sentencing, my thoughts are with the survivors of the defendant’s intentional and criminal acts.”
Gary must also maintain 10 years of good behavior and five years of supervised probation, including treatment for substance abuse and mental health as directed, and pay court costs. He is permanently barred from contacting the victims.
One of the incidents occurred near the Braddock Road Metro station. The victim told police she was followed out of the station by a man, grabbed from behind and wrestled to the ground. She was able to break free, hit the suspect on the head with her purse and flee before calling police, according to a search warrant affidavit.
Metro Transit Police provided the Alexandria Police Department with footage of Gary at the Braddock Road station and confirmed his identity using his Metro card entry and exit data. Gary was arrested June 1 at his home and posted a $10,000 bond two weeks later.
Gary, a Georgetown Law graduate, was employed as an assistant division chief by the Federal Communications Commission until his arrest. In a letter to the judge, he wrote that he did not remember the incidents.
“(T)he truth is, your honor, that I don’t remember that night,” Gary wrote. “I learned about my actions the way most of the world did — my attorney brought me a print-out of the Washington Post article about my arrest.”
Chris Leibig, Gary’s attorney, said that his client was a high functioning lawyer who had never been diagnosed as bipolar or autistic, that he had been prescribed high doses of Prozac and Adderall and had been drinking after work. Taken together, those factors put Gary in a state of delirium, Leibig said.
“It’s a very rare situation,” Leibig said. “He was horrified by what he did, and he didn’t mean to do it.”
Gary wrote that since his arrest he has gotten a divorce and lost his career and friends.
“To my victims, both of them/you, I want to say I’m sorry,” Gary wrote. “I never wanted to do this to you. If I’d had any idea something like this could happen, that my mind could betray me as it did, I would have done everything in my power to stop it.”
