A married couple arrested Sunday night by the FBI for allegedly acting as Russian spies have a son who attends the University, and the couple donated to GW last year, a University spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday.

The couple, going by the names Donald Howard Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley, were just two of 10 people arrested Sunday and charged in two separate criminal complaints with “conspiring to act as unlawful agents of the Russian Federation within the United States,” according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

“Donald Howard Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley made a nominal donation to the University in 2009,” University spokeswoman Michelle Sherrard said in an e-mail Tuesday.

Sherrard confirmed that a son of the couple attends GW. The Boston Globe originally reported that the couple donated to the University. A GW Parents Campaign Donor Report lists a contribution under the “up to $499” category from “Donald Heathfield and Ann Foley.”

According to court complaints – unsealed Monday in Manhattan’s U.S. District Court – Heathfield and Foley are each charged with conspiracy to act as unregistered agents of a foreign government and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The first charge has a maximum penalty of five years in prison. The second charge has a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, according to the Department of Justice release.

Heathfield and Foley are described in court documents as claiming to be naturalized U.S. citizens born in Canada, and they have lived in the U.S. since 1999.  The complaints detail the multiyear investigation into Heathfield, Foley and other alleged secret agents for the SVR, a foreign intelligence organ of the Russian Federation.