Pr. William drops loitering charges against 4 Latinos

The Prince William County commonwealth’s attorney has dropped a case against four Latino men who were charged with loitering while standing near their apartment complex in Manassas in May. The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the defendants, argued that the county’s loitering clause is “unconstitutionally vague.” The ordinance makes it unlawful to loiter “under circumstances which justify a reasonable suspicion that such person may be engaged in, or is about to engage in, a crime, or with the purpose of begging.”