Police reportedly removed multiple firearms from the home of Jena and Noor Chanaa, where a police document states authorities found anti-American slogans and flags associated with terrorist groups.
The Chanaa sisters are two George Mason University students who were criminally trespassed for four years over their alleged defacing of university property with an anti-Israel slogan, seemingly ending their education at the institution.
According to a police document published Monday by The Washington Free Beacon, the flags and guns were found when Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) conducted a November 7 search of the women’s home search while investigating property damage at the university, which apparently led them to the home of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Mason leaders.
The outlet reported the search came as the women were accused of committing property damage to the university, after the words “student intifada” were spray painted at the George Mason student center. According to The Jerusalem Post, “several black-clad students” left spray painted messages on the ground, prompting a $2,000 reward from GMU police.
According to a Fairfax County Police Department petition for an Emergency Substantial Risk Order, invoking Virginia’s Red Flag Law,
“Subject is in the possession of several flags, paperwork, insignia, and other materials displaying anti-American rhetoric and expressions indicating ‘Death to America,'” a member of the Fairfax County Police Department wrote in a petition for the firearms to be temporarily taken under Virginia’s Emergency Substantial Risk Order legislation, or Red Flag Law.
The legal petition published by the Free Beacon additionally states, “Subject is specifically in possession of ‘Hamas’ and ‘Hezbollah’ flags which have been deemed terroristic and a threat to the American people by the U.S. State Department,” and confirms, “Subject is in possession of several firearms and ammunition.”
According to the outlet, multiple “long guns” were seized from the property under the Red Flag Law. It also published a court document showing Mohammad Chanaa, who is reportedly father of the former students, later voluntarily surrendered his pistol and permit to carry a concealed weapon.
The court documents were published less than one week after the Council on American-Islamic Relations “condemned” the “draconian” search of the Chanaa home, with a spokesman stating, “such a raid for allegedly spray-painting property raises reasonable questions about what is happening.”
Regarding the university’s decision to suspend SJP and trespass the students, CAIR Research and Advocacy Director Corey Saylor stated, “Unless George Mason administration has decided anti-genocide viewpoints require treatment outside normal due process, these measures should be rescinded.”
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
