Fairfax County’s elected leaders struggled yesterday (Oct. 20) to formulate the correct balance between public safety and individual privacy, as they discussed the future of automatic license plate readers (LPRs) in the county.
“There are questions that still need answers,” said Franconia District Supervisor Rodney Lusk, who chaired the supervisors’ Safety and Security Committee that spent two hours going over the subject.
Fairfax County police are investigating a series of potentially connected burglaries targeting mostly fast-casual chain restaurants, dating back to July.
The first burglary was reported on July 13 at 8:05 a.m., drawing officers to a Taco Bamba in Springfield’s Backlick Shopping Center (6691-A Backlick Road).
A teen was hospitalized this morning (Monday) after she was struck by a driver while riding an electric bicycle near McLean High School.
Initial details about the crash are limited, but the Fairfax County Police Department says the 15-year-old girl appears to have been riding in a crosswalk at Westmoreland Street and Clearview Drive when she was struck.
Two pedestrians were seriously injured and another was killed in three separate vehicle crashes on Fairfax County roads this past weekend.
Officers with the Fairfax County Police Department responded yesterday (Sunday) at 3:47 a.m. for a crash involving a pedestrian on southbound Route 28 near Air and Space Museum Parkway, according to a press release issued this afternoon (Monday).
An officer assigned to the Fairfax County Police Department’s McLean District Station has been arrested and charged with three counts of domestic assault.
Brandon Moore, 35, has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of criminal and administrative investigations, the FCPD said today (Friday).
A Herndon man was recently arrested on drug and weapons charges after allegedly attempting to sell fentanyl to an undercover police detective, the Fairfax County Police Department announced this morning (Thursday).
The 19-year-old has been charged with possession with intent to distribute schedule I/II narcotics, possession of a firearm while distributing schedule I/II narcotics, possession of an auto sear, and carrying a loaded firearm in certain localities.
A Fairfax County police officer was allegedly caught taking items from two different Target stores without paying for them last month.
Scott Abram, a 23-year veteran of the Fairfax County Police Department who most recently worked as a school resource officer (SRO), was charged yesterday (Oct. 8) with misdemeanor shoplifting, his employer announced this morning.
Another man has died while in custody at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.
Brendan Brown, a 38-year-old Springfield resident, was found unresponsive in his cell at the jail yesterday morning (Oct. 8), prompting deputies to declare a medical emergency, according to separate press releases from the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) and the Fairfax County Police Department.
A Woodbridge man has been arrested for allegedly burglarizing at least three different medical offices across Fairfax County in recent months.
The Fairfax County Police Department first began investigating a reported commercial burglary in the 8200 block of Willow Oaks Corporate Drive in Merrifield on May 19, according to a press release.
A 93-year-old Springfield man has died from the injuries he sustained in a crash on Fairfax County Parkway in Burke Sunday afternoon (Oct. 4).
According to the Fairfax County Police Department, Gerald Brook was riding in the front passenger seat of a 2010 Nissan Altima that was heading northbound on the parkway, approaching the Burke Lake Road intersection, when the car collided with a 2017 Toyota 4Runner that was traveling eastbound on Burke Lake Road.
