Jimenez charged with driving 104 mph in Fairfax
The Fairfax County Traffic Court has provided more details on the reckless driving charge for Mason Supervisor Andres Jimenez.
Jimenez was clocked speeding 104 miles per hour on Route 50 by a Virginia State trooper on May 5, according to court records.
A deputy clerk at the courthouse said he was stopped on Fair Lakes Parkway at Monument Drive at 8:49 a.m. That location is close to the Fairfax County Government Center. A Board of Supervisors meeting was held that day, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
A spokesperson for the Virginia State Police later told Annandale Today, “the stop occurred on Interstate 66 westbound in the Express Lanes west of Route 50.”
While the summons says Jimenez was driving 104 mph in a 70-mph zone, the speed limit on Route 50 near Fair Lakes Drive is 45 mph. A deputy clerk at the Traffic Court could not explain why the summons says “104/70 reckless.”
Under the Virginia Code, a “reckless driving” charge applies to anyone driving in excess of 85 mph or exceeding the speed limit by 20 mph.
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According to the summons, Jimenez was driving a 2025 Porsche. He was not given a DWI test.
Jimenez is scheduled to appear at an adjudicatory hearing in Traffic Court, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Room 1E, on Monday, July 20, at 9:30 a.m.
Sean Kennedy, president of Virginians for Safe Communities, sent a letter to Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano on July 16 asking Descano to immediately recuse himself from any involvement in the prosecution of Jimenez “due to the appearance of a conflict of interest.”
Kennedy asks Descano to “request appointment of an independent special prosecutor from another jurisdiction” to handle the case. Kennedy is an outspoken critic of Descano and the county’s “sanctuary policies.”
According to Kennedy, Jimenez and Descano are political allies with multiple ties. Both Jimenez and his defense attorney, Makan Shirafkan, served on the Justice Advisory Council launched by Descano in 2021. As a Fairfax County supervisor, Jimenez oversees the county budget and makes funding decisions affecting the commonwealth attorney’s office.
Kennedy also asked General District Court Judge Tina Snee to disqualify Descano from the case for the same reasons.
“Even if every decision were entirely proper, a reasonable member of the public could question whether political and institutional relationships played a role,” Kennedy said. “That appearance alone undermines public trust.”
Where is there a 70 MPH zone? Reckless driving in Monument and Fair Lakes Parkway is a disaster in motion.
104 mph in a 45 mph!!!!!! This man doesn’t practice or believe anything he preaches. He’s all talk and apparently also a danger to citizens. Isn’t the first time he’s disregarded public safety for his own personal interests. County better appoint an unbiased judge so he can’t call in favors and make this all disappear with his tit for tat politics. He needs to be held him accountable. Our elected officials must be held to a higher standard.
A little knowledge of the area and some common sense used after reading the story clarifies the situation. Jimenez was clocked in the Express Lanes of I66 where the speed limit is 70 mph. However, due to his high speed, the trooper couldn’t catch up to him and affect the traffic stop until Monument Drive after he’d exited the interstate. Not exactly rocket science here…
Thanks TJ. While I’ve lived here for decades,
search over here and I brought up I’m a man of leisure, never in an hurry and didn’t know about express lanes nor their speed limit.
The fact that he was driving 104 MPH during rush hour is disqualifying for his position. Reckless. Arrogant. Dangerous. It is an abuse of power, as though he is above the law. Time for Andres to go. Mason District deserves effective leadership. And Descano must recuse himself from this matter.
FWIW, I appreciate AT for being fair with this story. Additionally Jimenez has continued to fail us, taking developer money and letting them run rampant, cutting at risk teen programs at Culmore, and missing over a third of the board meetings. Anybody that supported his campaign should be ashamed. And a 2025 Porsche, I know they voted to raise their pay but didn’t he agree to be a full time supervisor?
Penny was full time. It was reassuring to see her red Honda Fit every day in the Mason parking lot.
This is absolutely unconscionable. Not only is there never any reason to drive 104 but if this story is accurate he was pulled over in an area where the limit was actually 45 mph. Making matters worse, it was at 8:49 in the morning, right in the heart of rush hour.
This is disgusting, immature and dangerous. No public official should do anything like this and in my opinion he needs to resign. It shows a profound lack of judgement and disregard for the well-being and safety of the community.
Ellie, thank you for breaking the story about our supervisor’s reckless and dangerous driving. What he did was a disgrace, as is that the charges were not disclosed then or very soon after by the BOS or Jimenez himself.
If Jimenez doesn’t initiate his resignation, Supervisor McKay should call on him to resign.
This is such a reckless action to make as an elected leader.
He should also be held accountable to the same standard of anyone else, enough with a 2 tiered legal system, where paying high price attorneys with connections to judges leads to favorable plea bargains for the haves, and the full weight of the law for the have nots.
Jorge, respectfully, you completely missed the point.
He’s saying the article is wrong.
Jimenez wasn’t “going 104 on Route 50”, which is a 45 mph zone like the author claims.
He was going “104 on 66 in a 70 mph zone”, which is an enormous difference from what the author said.
The article requires correction because it’s false.
I applaud the state trooper who wrote him the summons. Being a law enforcement officer is a dangerous enough job without having to chase after a reckless driver who endangers us all.
The one thing I do wish is that a sobriety test was given at the time.
This type of person who has no respect of our laws
does not deserve to hold elected office.
He should resign immediately!
Jimenez could have mitigated the damage if he admitted it and apologized right after he got the ticket. He could have hired PR firm or something to refine the messaging.
E.g. this car is new and very fast and it gets to 100 in no time and I made a horrible mistake. I’m selling the car and giving the proceeds to Culmore kids, and I’m starting community service this weekend as a way to apologize. I’ll work 10 Saturdays cleaning up garbage in addition to whatever the court wants to do with me.
I bet that would have won over some residents. But it takes character, guts, honesty and a little vision to do that.
Instead, he hid like a coward.
Jiminez is a child w clear judgement challenges and immaturity. Descano is equally incompetent. Illegal boarding houses are prolific in Mason, pedestrian and road safety doesn’t exist and crime is exploding.
Our children need leaders to look up to and not join them in childish antics. He has no forgiving qualities. We pay high taxes in this County and those are not for a playboy to go joy riding and breaking the law in a Porsche. He needs to resign immediately.
Andres is the Marion Barry of Mason District. Please step down from the BoS and do us all a favor……I am repulsed by your behavior and lack of responsible leadership! If he doesn’t go voluntarily the BoS should request his resignation.
It’s hard to wake up in the morning, knowing that we have two clowns in leadership positions that are supposed to be looking out for the general public. It’s time to add an amendment to the federal and state constitutions: NO CLOWNS ALLOWED!
All great comments, thank you to everyone and Ellie for reporting this. It is absolutely correct that Jimenez should resign immediately and Descano should recuse himself. I met Descano through Jimenez who at the time was promoting Descano for his position. They are great friends. Jimenez is a do nothing supervisor for Mason residents but will do anything for his purposes
Hilarious. Comments here and on the other similar article would have one believe this guy’s the Antichrist. For what? Violating traffic laws.
But had it been an immigration law violation he’d be your hero.
There was plenty of evidence Jimenez was selfish and lazy before most of these commenters voted him in.
My neighbors had a fundraiser for him, and at the time I thought… what fools.
Interesting to hear those who worked with him call him an empty suit. I think that is euphemistic.
I don’t think Jimenez will resign because he only cares about himself and couldn’t find a job paying him nearly as much.
I don’t doubt it and for sure he hasn’t made any new friends. Just saw this case was postponed. I’m pretty sure that was predicted in these comments.
30 min ago I saw him drive by my house in his Audi dressed like a teenager so I don’t think he went to court this morning.
So… this tool has both a Porsche AND an Audi. AUDIT THIS GUY !
Incredible… What chutzpah this guy has… Such an arrogant, self serving egomaniac… Driving around our neighborhoods in an exorbitant 2025 PORSCHE while preaching the needs of affordability for the less fortunate! Where did the money come from for that pricey purchase…?? We all need to wake up and understand that he’s nothing more that a sham, political hack who continues to take money from deep-pocketed developers and other influencers who can advance his corrupt, personal ambitions. We won’t be fooled again!!!
The IRS needs to audit this guy.
That case has been continued until September 21st. He did not show up at court.
This is a strong argument to lower the speed limit and implement other types of speed reduction devices. Obviously, different people have different reasons for driving that fast. This area has speeders where there are other sounds that can’t be identified, and the traffic features are non-traditional, which makes ticketing as fast very difficult. Luckily, most vehicles can’t go that fast. Speed bumps would knock that behavior out before someone gets hurt. They should have a golf cart infrastructure.