Driver who killed passenger in car crash has extensive criminal record

Alana Deanne Jones, 41, of Leesburg was killed May 16 at 6:48 p.m. when the Buick she was riding in as a passenger lost control, sending it crashing through perimeter fencing around the Westpark Tech construction area and flipping over on its roof where it came to rest.

Virginia State Police responded to the scene and stated Jones was not wearing a seat belt. She was a resident of the Country Club Green Condominium neighborhood. She was renting a unit owned by Gianluca Iasca. This reporter reached out to Iasca and will update the story if there is a response. Iasca has owned a condo in the neighborhood, built in the late 70s, for six years.

Adrian Keith Gibson, 43, of Leesburg, was the driver of the Buick and survived the crash. He was taken to a local hospital for his injuries and was charged on May 19 with driving under the influence. Additional charges may be forthcoming from the Loudoun County Commonwealth Attorneys Office.

Gibson has a different address than Jones. His last known address is the 75 block of Plaza Street NE, known as "Leesburg Apartments" next to the Leesburg Police station. This apartment complex has been well documented in media accounts for gang, drug and general criminal activity. It is a section 8 housing complex.

He has also lived in Maryland and Rose Hill, N.C.

Gibson has an extensive criminal past and is currently awaiting court hearings coming up on June 11 for speeding and failure to obey a traffic signal.

He was charged with public intoxication in February 2026 and received a fine of $25 and court costs of $91. Other past charges include having no driver's license, multiple assault and batteries on family members, drugs, possession of open containers, bodily injury by a prisoner, strangulation, two separate counts of destruction of a monument, etc. There are also protection orders taken out against him.

Clubhouse Drive SW has a well known "S" curve in it directly adjacent to where Westpark Tech is being built. The two-lane road has drawn attention repeatedly in recent years after neighbors have requested on numerous occasions that the Town of Leesburg install flashing beacons on a pair of stop signs at Clubhouse Drive SW and the Rt. 7 exit ramp which is notoriously dangerous. Mayor Kelly Burk and the Town Council have repeatedly denied there is a problem at the intersection and have refused to place flashing beacons on the stop signs to enhance safety for the road.

Clubhouse Drive SW is also where residents fought to oppose a data center and then a flex industrial warehouse from being built in 2024, but which, again the Mayor and Town Council gave a green light to developer Chuck Kuhn for the flex industrial building to be built. It is currently under construction with an anticipated completion date of Spring 2026.

Before the warehouse was demolished, the warehouse site was an abandoned former golf club building that was destroyed and vandalized repeatedly. It drew the homeless, as well as arson activity and those who wanted to use the dilapidated building for partying. Police were present on numerous occasions and neighbors complained about why the Town was not forcing Kuhn to demolish the building. The Town acquiesced to Kuhn and never made him demolish the building, causing continuous problems for the neighborhood's safety and property values for several years while permitting and approval from the Town was ongoing.

The Westpark Tech construction project is extensive and residents have complained of near miss accidents between dump truck drivers pulling in and out of the construction site and neighbors trying to drive in and out of the condominium community neighborhood.

Signage indicating "entering a construction zone" and human flaggers were not put in place until this reporter requested both until construction is completed. Crisak Construction, owned by Steve Spiewak, is the main contractor building Westpark Tech. His office is based in Purcellville and he has done other work for Chuck Kuhn in the past, including work on the Leesburg Airport.

The neighborhood has also repeatedly asked the Town of Leesburg to erect "No parking for more than 10 days" signs along the commercial section of Clubhouse Drive SW, which is regularly abused by all manner of commercial drivers who want to store their vehicles for long periods of time on the road, which does not comply with Town code. Leesburg Police consistently respond to complaints from neighbors, and ticket and tow those vehicles.

Town Manager Kaj Dentler has refused to install the $50 signs despite the fact that it would discourage drivers from parking long term and actually solve the problem, and make police officers jobs easier for ticketing purposes.

Dentler said that even though the problem is going on now, and has been for some time, he prefers to wait until the Westpark Tech project is complete before evaluating the street for signage.

Westpark Tech has no bearing on current commercial parking abuse by drivers, nor will it after it is finished being built.

Dentler has announced his retirement as October 2026.

In addition to strongly denouncing the Westpark Tech industrial park, which will add an additional 173 parking spaces as part of its project, 106 neighbors on both sides of Westpark Tech signed an Open Letter to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in December 2025 expressing their vehement disapproval of the County's plan to build two parking lots with pavilions and restrooms.

One would be located directly between Westpark Tech and the Country Club Green condominium neighborhood and will contain 52 parking spaces - more than half the size of the Food Lion parking lot.

Despite a neighborhood meeting with Supervisor Kristen Umstattd and repeated assurances that she would bring a motion forward to remove the disc golf, parking lots and amenities from the park plan designs, she ultimately did not and the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to approve the parking lot and disc golf course plan, with a completion date of 2028.

The condo neighborhood has repeatedly stated the two projects so close to their residences will bring significantly more traffic to Clubhouse Drive SW, more noise from pavilion use, and concerns about people not leaving the area at sunset and using the road and parking lot for speed racing and car burn parties where young drivers burn their tires leaving marks on the road and causing smoke.

The Town and County have categorically ignored or dismissed all of these concerns by the neighborhood over the last four years and have done nothing.

Saturday night's fatal accident only adds to the concerns the neighborhood already had about Clubhouse Drive SW.