The Town of Vienna Police Department (VPD) is warning about a phone scam that purports to come from the Vienna Police Department.
Vienna Police warned that they will never call to collect fines or request personal information.
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Fairfax County police aim to export successes they’ve had fighting retail theft in Tysons to other corridors across the county.
Despite targeted efforts, “shoplifting remains our Achilles’ heel,” Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis told the Board of Supervisors during a Safety and Security Committee meeting last week.
Three Herndon residents were arrested last month on charges of attempting to exploit children in Loudoun County.
The men — identified as 45-year-old Ravi Shankar Reddy Gunipalli, 29-year-old Thomas Ian Wallace and 28-year-old Ruben Oben Nouta — were among eight people arrested by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office during the week of April 21 as part of an “internet chat operation,” according to a press release.
The Fairfax County Police Department said a man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a victim inside a Target (12197 Sunset Hills Road) near the Reston Town Center.
Police said in a release today that the incident took place on April 14 around 1:40 p.m.
A Falls Church man has been arrested following a reported abduction and attempted sexual assault early this morning (Wednesday).
According to a release from the Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD), a woman said she was forced into a vehicle at the 6100 block of Arlington Boulevard, near a popular Target.
A Lorton man will spend most of the next two decades in federal prison after coercing young girls to create and send him sexually explicit content on social media.
Jose Alejandro Belmonte Cardozo, who pleaded guilty in November to one count of transporting child pornography, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison yesterday (Tuesday) by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Trash bags and dirt bikes were among the “highlights” of the Town of Vienna Police Department’s past week.
Vienna police cited an 83-year-old man from Dunn Loring for illegal dumping on Wednesday (April 3) after they identified him as the source of a “suspicious black trash bag” dropped off at the police station (215 Center Street South) the previous morning, according to a recap of the week from March 28 through April 3.
Metro is following through on plans to prohibit people alleged to have committed serious infractions on its property from returning.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Board of Directors voted 8-0 yesterday (Thursday) to approve a new policy allowing the transit agency to issue citations banning individuals arrested for assault or sex-related crimes from its system.
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A woman accused of using Tysons and Merrifield apartments as part of a “high-end brothel network” on the East Coast will spend the next four years in federal prison.
Federal prosecutors alleged that Han Lee, 42, of Massachusetts, “led one of the most successful prostitution networks on the east coast of the United States.”
A 23-year-old who admitted to driving while under the influence when he struck and killed another motorist in Centreville will spend the next year in jail.
Gabriel Rincon of Fairfax was sentenced Friday (March 14) to a total of 11 years for the December 2023 crash that killed Sohail Iqbal, a 30-year-old Manassas man, on Route 29 near Stringfellow Road.