Crime & Safety

Woman at Center of Anti-Muslim Remarks is Former Redskins Cheerleader

Anti-Muslim tirade against cab driver is second such incident in recent months in Northern Virginia.

An Islamic group is asking Fairfax County to charge a woman for attacking an Alexandria cab driver in an anti-Muslim tirade.

The woman, Jenny Tesh-Crabbe, is a former Washington Redskins cheerleader, shares an Ashburn address with pro baseball player Bruce Crabbe (current manager of the Lowell Spinners in Lowell, Mass.) and is a cousin of musician John Tesh, according to her biography in PageantryMagazine.com.

Tesh-Crabbe was named in a complaint filed by an Islamic group, the Council on American Islamic Relations, which is asking the Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney to pursue charges against her for making anti-Muslim remarks to a cab driver April 23 and poking him in the back during a trip near Dulles Airport.

"She committed a crime and she should be held accountable for that crime," said CAIR attorney Gadeir Abbas, who is asking that Tesh-Crabbe be charged with simple assault. "Virginia law provides for bias enhancement; here we don't need to guess as to why Miss Crabbe struck; she makes it very clear that she took offense at his faith."

This is the second recent incident of anti-Muslim behavior by a passenger against cab drivers in Northern Virginia. The other incident recently occurred in the Fairfax Station area in Fairfax County.  

The driver of Jenny Tesh-Crabbe's cab, Abdikar Aden, is a family man originally from Somalia who is a U.S. citizen and lives on Belle View Boulevard south of Old Town Alexandria. He picked up two passengers late April 23 from the Capital Grille Steakhouse, a restaurant in McLean, according to a police report from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department. 

Aden was subjected to a tirade by a passenger identified in the police report as Jennifer Lynn Crabbe. A video of the tirade provided to Patch shows Crabbe using the "F" word at least a dozen times. The second passenger in the cab, listed as a witness in the police report, is Alexei Mack. He is listed on LinkedIn as CEO of Jet Management LLC. 

Tesh-Crabbe ended up calling 911 when the cab driver pulled his car over. The cab driver began to record the incident when she called 911.


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