Fairfax County police arrested a Centreville man over the weekend who is suspected of soliciting sex from an 11-year-old child.
The arrest became complicated when the man allegedly refused to leave his home, and officers learned that he may be armed, the Fairfax County Police Department said in a news release on Saturday (July 13).
The family of a Clifton woman who was killed last week while crossing Pickwick Road in Centreville has launched an online fundraiser.
Set up by the nephew of Lubia Marisol Vasquez Mateo, the Gofundme page says the family is seeking financial assistance to cover various expenses, including memorial costs, travel costs and the medical bills of her partner, Jose Vasquez, who was injured in the crash.
Cub Run Elementary School students could be the first in Fairfax County to attend a “swing space” while their school gets renovated in the future.
The school board’s Facilities Planning Advisory Council (FPAC) recommends that Fairfax County Public Schools consider piloting the concept — where students and staff are temporarily relocated to pre-existing facilities during construction — with the Centreville school.
A woman was killed and a man got injured in a crash just south of Route 29 in Centreville on Monday (June 24), police say.
Officers responded to the intersection of Braddock and Pickwick roads around 9:50 p.m. after getting a call that two pedestrians had been hit by a driver, the Fairfax County Police Department reported in a press release published last night (Tuesday).
Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that occurred on Route 28 in the Centreville area on Monday (June 17).
According to the VSP, Juan Rossi Jr., a 25-year-old from Centreville, was riding his 2017 Yamaha YZF on the Route 28 North exit ramp to I-66 East when he “lost control, ran off the road, and hit a guardrail.”
A Maryland man was arrested earlier this month for allegedly trying to carjack a vehicle that he claimed to be interested in buying, Fairfax County police say.
Officers were dispatched to the 14600 block of Seasons Drive in Centreville’s Bryarton neighborhood for the reported carjacking at 10:09 p.m. on June 5. According to the Fairfax County Police Department, a Rodney Hart Jr., 25, contacted two other men to express interest in buying a vehicle they’d listed for sale on Facebook Marketplace.
The price tag for the ongoing project to widen Route 29 just east of Centreville has dropped.
The project, which started construction over a year ago, will add two lanes to a 1.5-mile segment of the road between Union Mill Road and Buckleys Gate Drive, expanding it from four lanes to six.
(Updated at 8:50 p.m.) One man was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting in Centreville this morning, police said.
Officers were dispatched around 9:30 a.m. to in the 14600 block of Route 29 after getting a call that shots had been fired in a commercial parking lot, Fairfax County Police Department Capt. Kent Bailey said in a media briefing shortly after 11:30 a.m.
A fourth-grade teacher at Colin Powell Elementary School in Centreville for more than 20 years has been named the Washington Post’s 2024 Teacher of the Year.
The newspaper announced last Tuesday, April 23 that Laura Senturia had earned the title — and a $7,500 prize — for her “rare talent for identifying her students’ innermost strengths.”
A Manassas man was arrested this weekend after allegedly firing a gun at another vehicle during a road rage incident in Centreville.
According to a Fairfax County Police Department press release, police responded to the intersection of Compton Road and Centreville Road in Centreville on Saturday, April 13, after it was reported that a shooting had occurred.
