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Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: FCPD Criminal Case ()
Date: July 01, 2020 03:43AM

Remember Jonathan Freitag is Innocent Until Proven guilty.


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Ex-Fairfax police officer under FBI investigation, made racially motivated traffic stops, prosecutor says
A D.C. firefighter was arrested and is in prison on gun and drug charges after one stop.
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Tom Jackman
June 29, 2020 at 12:57 p.m. EDT
A former Fairfax County police officer, who resigned last month after three years on the force, is under criminal and internal investigation on suspicion of lying about the reasons he stopped drivers, and there may have been a “racial component” to his actions, the Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office said in a court filing. One of his stops led to the arrest, and ongoing imprisonment, of a black D.C. firefighter on gun and drug charges.

The Fairfax investigations also revealed “issues beyond and in addition to the unlawful stops,” according to the court filing by Fairfax prosecutors, leading to the FBI opening a “parallel criminal investigation.” The Fairfax Police Department, the Fairfax prosecutors and the FBI all declined to describe the focus of the federal investigation.

When Fairfax police began an internal review of the officer, they randomly selected 40 of his traffic stops out of nearly 1,400 conducted during his three years on the street, according to the May filing in Fairfax Circuit Court. “In each one of the 40 randomly selected cases,” Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Kyle Manikas wrote, “the basis used by the officer to justify the stop, as memorialized in the police report, was untruthful.”

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“Moreover,” Manikas added, “there appears to have been a racial component with respect to the drivers that the officer unlawfully stopped.” Police and prosecutors declined to say why they thought the traffic stops had a racial component. But prosecutors said they have been dismissing the officer’s pending cases.

The officer, Jonathan Freitag, 24, has not been charged with any crimes and was not formally disciplined by the department, although he was suspended without pay during its investigation, a police spokesman said. The investigation and Freitag’s suspension began in September, spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, and the investigation is continuing.

In an interview, Freitag said that he had done nothing wrong and that he resigned simply out of frustration with the Fairfax police.

“I was cleared of everything,” he said. “I resigned on my own terms. I didn’t want to work with the police department anymore.”

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The former officer said he was being investigated internally for “things that never happened. Internal Affairs did an audit of my traffic stops, and I was cleared of any wrongdoing.” He said that he had not heard about the allegations in the prosecutors’ filing until The Washington Post contacted him and that he did not know he was under FBI investigation.

“This is all news to me,” Freitag said. “I was cleared of any criminal misconduct.”

Freitag was interviewed by the internal investigators and resigned after he was presented with findings of alleged violations involving how he identified himself during traffic stops, said Brandon Shapiro, his attorney. He and Freitag said the filing by Manikas was the first time they had heard the allegations of racial profiling.

It is not clear why police began investigating, and then suspended, Freitag in the fall. The investigation was made public in the case of former D.C. firefighter Elon Wilson, who is questioning the validity of the traffic stop that led to his arrest.

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Wilson, then 23, was stopped about 2:15 a.m. on April 6, 2018, as he drove away from a recording studio on Telegraph Road in the Rose Hill area of Fairfax County. The studio, Midieast Studios, was frequented late at night by both aspiring and high-profile rappers, and in 2019 was the scene of two shootings. Freitag wrote in his arrest report that Wilson’s car crossed the solid yellow line once and had illegally tinted windows.

Fairfax County police have linked a shooting spree to gangs and a recording studio. That has angered some black residents.

When Freitag pulled the car over, he “observed an odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle,” according to Fairfax prosecutors. The officer removed Wilson and a passenger from the car, then searched it because of the marijuana smell. Court records show he found two handguns and numerous plastic bags containing more than 460 pills, most of them oxycodone. Wilson’s attorney argued in a court filing that the pills and guns belonged to a family member of Wilson’s who was also in the car.

Wilson was arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possessing a gun while intending to distribute a controlled substance. The Fairfax police placed Wilson’s photograph and details of the arrest in their daily crime report, and some local news media reported the arrest. The D.C. Fire and EMS Service issued a statement saying that they were aware of the arrest, that Wilson had been suspended and that he had been with the department for four years.

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Marvin D. Miller, Wilson’s attorney, contends that Wilson’s windows were not illegally tinted and that the traffic stop and search were illegal. Freitag initially said that he had been surveilling the recording studio, Miller said, but then claimed that he stopped Wilson for a routine traffic violation. Miller said that “the odor of marijuana” was a preferred legal basis for police in Northern Virginia to conduct a search without a warrant.

But Miller said that he was unable to get a suppression motion heard before a preliminary hearing last year and that Wilson ultimately decided to enter a plea.

“Everything I did was found to be good,” Freitag said. “He pleaded guilty.” Records show that Wilson entered an Alford plea, in which a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict. A judge then enters a finding of guilty.

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In July 2019, Fairfax Circuit Judge Grace Carroll sentenced Wilson to three years and one month in prison. The gun charge alone carried a two-year mandatory minimum. Wilson had no criminal history.

But then Miller started to hear rumors that Freitag was under investigation. In February, Miller filed a motion saying that Freitag was being investigated “for providing false information to justify traffic stops.” In April, he filed another motion seeking post-trial discovery on Freitag, because “his veracity on that issue affected the reliability of the outcome in this case.”

Fairfax prosecutors contacted the Fairfax police, according to Manikas’s response to Miller’s motions, and found that Freitag had been under internal investigation since last year and placed on leave. “The information relayed to the Commonwealth,” Manikas wrote, “renders the officer unreliable as a witness.”

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Manikas said in the motion that prosecutors reviewed video of Freitag’s stop of Wilson and were “unable to determine from the video whether the purported basis for the stop was valid, and therefore, whether the Officer was truthful and made a lawful stop.”

Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano declined to comment on the case beyond the allegations made in the prosecution’s motion.

Apprised of the situation, the Fairfax prosecutors sought to obtain Freitag’s internal affairs files. But because officers’ statements to internal affairs are mandatory as a condition of employment, they cannot be used against them in criminal cases — that would be a violation of a person’s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, as enshrined in the Supreme Court ruling in Garrity v. New Jersey.

The statements can, however, be used when the officer is merely a witness, thus not violating his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

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So the prosecutors, in a motion to Carroll last month, proposed establishing a separate review team that would not be involved in any criminal cases, would review Freitag’s files and produce any unprotected information to Miller, the firefighter’s attorney.

“The primary purpose of exercising such caution,” Manikas wrote, “is not for the protection of the officer, but rather for the protection of a possible criminal prosecution of the officer.”

Carroll granted the prosecutors’ request for a special review team of Freitag’s files in an order entered June 2. Fairfax Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. said his officers would cooperate with the team.

In 2013, when Fairfax prosecutors sought the internal affairs files of the officer involved in the fatal shooting of John Geer, Roessler refused to turn over the files on the advice of the county attorney’s office. That created a year-long delay that was ended only when a Fairfax judge ordered the police to turn all of their investigative files over to the Geer family.

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In Wilson’s case, Miller said that if Freitag “has a pattern and practice, after this review, about not being truthful about the bases of traffic stops, that’s exculpatory evidence and I’m entitled to it.”

But it was not clear whether Fairfax or the FBI are examining Freitag’s other cases and what criminal activity might be alleged. The FBI investigates civil rights violations, and improper use of authority under “color of law,” and could seek federal charges if Freitag were accused of abusing his police powers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/06/29/ex-fairfax-police-officer-under-fbi-investigation-made-racially-motivated-traffic-stops-prosecutor-says/

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: trafficstop terrorist ()
Date: July 02, 2020 09:50AM

Fairfax Prosecutors better publish that Brady List now.

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Sorosorosorosorosoros ()
Date: July 02, 2020 10:11AM

Imagine that.. Soros is already creating imaginary white supremacy for the media brainwashers in Fairfax... Descano is a little nudnik... Taking bets on the turn over rate for the CAs office during his tenure: do I hear 150%? 200%? More? Look at Steve's Soros-sister from St Louis - Kim Gardner "investigating" a married pair of established attorneys for "brandishing" at a mob of zombies who broke down their gate and threatened to kill them and their dogs on video.. And Ms. Gardner is approaching 200% turn over for her office. Soros is using fake racism as pretext to completely gut prosecutor's offices. Selective enforcment is much easier than changing laws by legislative process and Soros knows this. This country could be unrecognizable in 10 years. Cucked out

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: just thinking ()
Date: July 02, 2020 07:06PM

I was wondering why a person would plea to several felony charges when so totally innocent to the charges?


Lets wait for the Feds to finish their investigation.

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: System At Work ()
Date: April 27, 2021 05:04PM

just thinking Wrote:
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> I was wondering why a person would plea to several
> felony charges when so totally innocent to the
> charges?
>
>
> Lets wait for the Feds to finish their
> investigation.


Seems like it's not just "a" person. Descano says it's more like 400 people that Freitag falsely charged...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/04/21/dc-firefighter-case-dismissed/


If you want some ideas on why any innocent person would plead guilty to any crime, read https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/681606995/punishment-without-crime-argues-that-americas-misdemeanor-system-targets-the-poo


Another question to ask is who "represented" these 400 people?

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Simple Stuff ()
Date: April 27, 2021 09:44PM

He knew. We all know now ....
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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: FCPD Life ()
Date: September 17, 2021 09:58PM

Here's former FCPD's Freitag's Side Of the Story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr6AdquXuvI

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: latest ()
Date: March 13, 2022 10:32AM

What's the Latest On this case?

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: 3ojf894 ()
Date: May 02, 2022 07:06PM

Looks Like the Elon Wilson case is the First Fraud on The Court finding at Fairfax Circuit Court...

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/circuit/sites/circuit/files/assets/documents/pdf/opinions/cl-2021-3146-elon-wilson-v-commonwealth-va.pdf

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Divine justice! ()
Date: September 17, 2022 03:31AM

So let me see if am following this correctly. Jonathan Freitag ex Fairfax officer whose father Barry Freitag is a retired cop from Alexandria VA is now under federal investigation for lying and deceitfully arresting a man, which lead to that innocent man’s imprisonment for two an half years. The incarcerated man being African American and a firefighter in D.C with no criminal record of any kind was exonerated and released from prison. Due to the misconduct and racist actions of this Jonathan Freitag there are now 400 cases that may be overturned that he was responsible for. He was pressured to resign and he quit the Fairfax police while being under federal investigation. He states he quit in good standing and did not want to be a cop anymore. However a few months later he applies for a job in Brevard County Florida to continue being a cop. He is hired, but for some reason Fairfax fails to release his record so he can pass the background check for his new precinct. Maybe they were covering up for one of their own. It’s discovered he is under federal investigation and is rightfully fired. Fairfax later states he lied about his job tenure with them and how it ended and the investigation still being conducted of him. He is accused by witnesses of stealing drugs from the police property room and planting them on innocent people. Hmmmm Sounds like he is a malicious little piece of shit. But perhaps the Apple did not fall from the tree. He is a liar, racist and a stupid criminal with a badge. Why ? Cause Jonathan Freitag, 25, was taken into custody on April 22 2021 for a DUI! Running a red light and T-boning another driver . He fled the scene and was followed, 911 was called and he was arrested . All this on the same day that the man he falsely sent to prison was being released. I say this was divine justice. This crooked cop should go to prison for all the harm he has done. I wonder if his misconduct behavior was something he learned from his father Barry Freitag who was also a questionable cop. This corrupt ex cop will be lucky to even get a job at a chick fillet.
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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: chip off the old block ()
Date: September 17, 2022 01:40PM

He fucked up like a champ and did his dad proud!
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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Flushed his life down the toilet ()
Date: September 19, 2022 03:32AM

What goes around comes around huh Barry! Guess your son fucked up royally and you can now wear this like a badge of honor for the rest of your life! Wow, I mean just wow! You have been here on Fairfax underground for years talking shit about so many people for so long like a coward behind a badge and computer screen. Now your son is the one receiving a fucking downpour of public humiliation and, so well deserved. Guess you failed as a guide and example to him. You failed him as a father. Life sure put you in your place! Enjoy. Jonathan became or perhaps was always the very things you judged others on. Maybe he learned to be racist from you as a boy, maybe he learned to be be corrupt in a uniform from you. Maybe this was all your fault for not tea no him properly to have honor and a moral compass.
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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Public info ()
Date: September 23, 2022 03:43AM


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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Extra extra! ()
Date: September 27, 2022 02:39AM

Taken from…. https://adrenogate.net/wp/2021/06/09/babyfaced-monster-jonathan-alex-freitag-posterboy-for-police-misconduct-blatant-disregard-for-civil-liberties-used-bogus-pretextual-justification-to-illegally-jail-hundreds/


The extent of the corruption that has been uncovered by ASD-DOCS(love this channel) regarding this ULTRA corrupt, wildly incompetent, unintelligent, sniddy little toolbag, Jonathan “Alex” Freitag, and the Fairfax police department as a whole, is downright FRIGHTENING. No wonder this guy didn’t use his real first name outside of work. ASD-DOCS does an AMAZING job piecing together this guy’s web of systematic misconduct and presents a concise and beautifully articulated body of work that is impossible to discount or discredit. I think he’s one of the best channels of this genre on YouTube and I hope he keeps at it.

In the case of Jonathan “Alex” Freitag, this baby-faced pig was so brazen and so sloppy while conducting these rights-violating traffic stops, searches and subsequent arrests, that he was thankfully caught at a fairly early point in his short law enforcement career. This little idiot got caught because he was overzealous, sloppy and just downright unintelligent in his disregard for the 4th amendment. However, to me, cases like these illustrate the sad reality of how institutionalized this kind of behavior and unapologetic misconduct is within the ranks of all law enforcement agencies. Most of these dirty cops are much more careful and are not as inexplicably reckless as this baby-faced sociopath was. Making the unfortunate reality of institutionalized police corruption that much more harrowing with very scary implications as far as the commonality of this kind of misconduct.

I suspect that Frietag was given some bad advice by another officer who likely bragged to him about all the various unethical practices that he was constantly getting away with. This gave Mr. Alex Freitag the false impression that being a police officer came with much more leeway and avoidance of accountability than in reality. He was just too dumb to stay under the radar while trashing the rights of the civilians he terrorized. Pinning crimes on innocent civilians in his desperation to turn them into confidential informants so he could impress his bosses. But he instead made them look like idiots and exposed a whole slew of corruption within the ranks of his department by hanging his superiors and even the D.A. out to dry. A department that is now getting ready to hang him out to dry.

The F.B.I. is currently investigating 400 different arrests that were made by this corrupt little chode which ALL appear to have been made with an egregious disregard for the law and the civil liberties of the suspects/victims. All 400 convictions have been thrown out!

In the interview below you can hear him throw all his superiors and even the D.A. under the bus by claiming he was told by them to leave out pertinent information in his reports. Claiming this was something that was well known to the prosecutors handling the cases and was common practice among other officers.

Guess what Jonathan? Or “Alex” I should say. From here on out for the rest of your worthless life, whenever anyone Googles your name, they are going to get search results for articles like mine, which expose you as the societal bacteria infection that you are. Good luck with that bro.

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: almost killed someone and himsel ()
Date: September 30, 2022 02:51PM

just thinking Wrote:
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> I was wondering why a person would plea to several
> felony charges when so totally innocent to the
> charges?
>
>
> Lets wait for the Feds to finish their
> investigation.


its amazing how this little shit did not kill anyone when he had his DUI. He t-boned and fled!

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Muerto ()
Date: September 30, 2022 05:21PM

El se murio . Janet el
Se murio. Ok tu mama ala chingada!

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Dumb a ()
Date: September 30, 2022 05:28PM

Ala chingada with u. U are not a latina so fuck barry

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: just to bad ()
Date: November 22, 2022 02:59PM

https://wjla.com/news/local/ex-fairfax-county-cop-accused-of-racial-profiling-charged-with-dui-in-florida?fbclid=IwAR2C_XS5m5IWajLY6JvVfZkE6RELbN7Il_58uyW7q_ld43WwD0hhmoauV2M




"To say the least, it is outrageous that an individual such as Mr. Freitag, with a history of alleged misconduct at the Fairfax County Police Department, had become a member of our agency and placed in a position that may have negatively impacted our citizens due to your agency's misrepresentations," Ivey wrote in a two page April 5, 2021 letter to the Interim Police Chief of Fairfax County, David M. Rohrer.

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: relieved ()
Date: November 22, 2022 03:03PM

Wilson was the father of an infant and a respected member of the D.C. fire department when he was pulled over by Freitag. The officer's lies landed him in prison, a judge ruled.

This fucker was a liar......a agent of evil..... his fathers son. GOD will always prevail friends. Always.

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: The Lords justice ()
Date: January 23, 2023 02:37AM

Psalm 103:6
English Standard Version
6 The Lord works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.



Deuteronomy 27:19
English Standard Version
19 “‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


Proverbs 28:5
English Standard Version
5 Evil men do not understand justice,
but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: My heart rejoicing in the lord ()
Date: February 01, 2023 01:03AM

Nothing that happens on earth happens unless it’s allowed by heaven.
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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: extra extra ()
Date: February 02, 2023 04:02PM

Taken from…. https://adrenogate.net/wp/2021/06/09/babyfaced-monster-jonathan-alex-freitag-posterboy-for-police-misconduct-blatant-disregard-for-civil-liberties-used-bogus-pretextual-justification-to-illegally-jail-hundreds/


The extent of the corruption that has been uncovered by ASD-DOCS(love this channel) regarding this ULTRA corrupt, wildly incompetent, unintelligent, sniddy little toolbag, Jonathan “Alex” Freitag, and the Fairfax police department as a whole, is downright FRIGHTENING. No wonder this guy didn’t use his real first name outside of work. ASD-DOCS does an AMAZING job piecing together this guy’s web of systematic misconduct and presents a concise and beautifully articulated body of work that is impossible to discount or discredit. I think he’s one of the best channels of this genre on YouTube and I hope he keeps at it.

In the case of Jonathan “Alex” Freitag, this baby-faced pig was so brazen and so sloppy while conducting these rights-violating traffic stops, searches and subsequent arrests, that he was thankfully caught at a fairly early point in his short law enforcement career. This little idiot got caught because he was overzealous, sloppy and just downright unintelligent in his disregard for the 4th amendment. However, to me, cases like these illustrate the sad reality of how institutionalized this kind of behavior and unapologetic misconduct is within the ranks of all law enforcement agencies. Most of these dirty cops are much more careful and are not as inexplicably reckless as this baby-faced sociopath was. Making the unfortunate reality of institutionalized police corruption that much more harrowing with very scary implications as far as the commonality of this kind of misconduct.

I suspect that Frietag was given some bad advice by another officer who likely bragged to him about all the various unethical practices that he was constantly getting away with. This gave Mr. Alex Freitag the false impression that being a police officer came with much more leeway and avoidance of accountability than in reality. He was just too dumb to stay under the radar while trashing the rights of the civilians he terrorized. Pinning crimes on innocent civilians in his desperation to turn them into confidential informants so he could impress his bosses. But he instead made them look like idiots and exposed a whole slew of corruption within the ranks of his department by hanging his superiors and even the D.A. out to dry. A department that is now getting ready to hang him out to dry.

The F.B.I. is currently investigating 400 different arrests that were made by this corrupt little chode which ALL appear to have been made with an egregious disregard for the law and the civil liberties of the suspects/victims. All 400 convictions have been thrown out!

In the interview below you can hear him throw all his superiors and even the D.A. under the bus by claiming he was told by them to leave out pertinent information in his reports. Claiming this was something that was well known to the prosecutors handling the cases and was common practice among other officers.

Guess what Jonathan? Or “Alex” I should say. From here on out for the rest of your worthless life, whenever anyone Googles your name, they are going to get search results for articles like mine, which expose you as the societal bacteria infection that you are. Good luck with that bro.

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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Justice was served ()
Date: February 02, 2023 04:04PM


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Re: Jonathan Freitag
Posted by: Blessed by GOD ()
Date: March 06, 2023 03:48PM

Come at me ! Come !!!!! I was never afraid of you Barry and Alex Freitag! Tell Janet your mom i was afraid of her and i prospered. I am will pray for her Estella! I will ! She always yelled at you and never respected you. I pray Estella you found Christ. Sorry your grandson did this !

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