Ex-Fairfax County resident facing international kidnapping charges

Published January 1, 2011 5:00am ET



A former Fairfax County resident who allegedly flew with her children to Moscow two years ago, in violation of a custody agreement with her ex-husband, is now facing kidnapping charges. Federal prosecutors say 46-year-old Aziza Mirzoeva took her two children to Canada to visit her son from a previous marriage in December 2008. They were scheduled to return to Virginia on Jan. 20, 2009, but the trio flew to Moscow instead.

A criminal complaint was filed against Mirzoeva that August, and a federal judge in Alexandria signed a warrant for her arrest.

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