An Arlington man who allegedly deployed bear spray against police officers who were trying to arrest him in Hybla Valley last week is now facing dozens of criminal charges.
An alert issued by an automated license plate reader around 1:39 p.m. last Friday (March 20) notified officers to the presence of a vehicle associated with a man who was wanted on multiple felony charges, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
An assistant track coach at Hayfield Secondary School will be dismissed after he was arrested today (Thursday) on child pornography charges, police say.
Richard Huerta, 28, of Kingstowne came to the attention of the Fairfax County Police Department when its Child Exploitation Unit detectives received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children indicating he “may be in possession” of child sexual abuse material, according to a press release.
Rebuffing concerns raised by residents on both environmental and transparency grounds, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has approved the sale of 41.7 acres of county-owned land in Chantilly for development as a data center.
Without making any comments, the supervisors voted 9-0 on Tuesday (March 17) to sell part of the police department’s training facility at 3721 Stonecroft Blvd to Starwood Capital Group under the name SCG Capital Holdings LLC.
Four people in Fairfax County were killed Saturday (March 14) between two crashes in Reston and Mount Vernon, according to police.
Among the deceased are three adults — including a 79-year-old man — and one juvenile, the Fairfax County Police Department said yesterday (Sunday).
Three people were killed and two were hospitalized as a result of a single-vehicle crash near Crossfield Elementary School in Reston earlier this morning (Saturday).
As of 10:30 a.m., Fox Mill Road remains closed in both directions at Folkstone Drive, where the crash occurred, as detectives with the Fairfax County Police Department’s Crash Reconstruction Unit investigate.
All but one of the Fairfax County Police Department’s major crime statistics dropped in 2025, according to police data released this week.
Rates of carjackings (down 48%), non-fatal shootings (37%), burglaries (27%), robberies (19%), shoplifting (11%), sex offenses (11%), vehicle theft (10%) and homicides (7%) all saw a year-over-year drop, Police Chief Kevin Davis told the Board of Supervisors’ Safety and Security Committee on Tuesday (March 10).
The Fairfax County Police Department is moving forward with plans to partially seal off its radio communications from the public.
The department has proposed encrypting its “main channels” to both limit the disclosure of sensitive information and prevent “someone’s worst day from being used for entertainment,” officers told the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors at a Safety and Security Committee meeting this afternoon (Tuesday).
Multiple Centreville residents woke up last week to find a naked man inside their home, police say.
The Fairfax County Police Department is investigating four different home burglaries that occurred between March 5 and 8 in the London Towne neighborhood — all of them possibly committed by the same man who was seen nude in two cases.
A coalition of environmental advocacy organizations is asking Fairfax County officials for more information about the proposed sale of 42 acres in Chantilly to a data center developer.
County supervisors have set a March 17 public hearing to consider selling a portion of the county-owned parcel at 3721 Stonecroft Blvd where the Fairfax County Police Department has several training facilities.
A Harrisonburg man who claimed to be a pastor is now in Fairfax County custody after being accused of a sexual assault in Merrifield, police said today (Friday).
Marco Antonio Ocampos Zamora allegedly traveled to Merrifield for an in-person “counseling session” with a woman he met online who believed he was a pastor. The woman told detectives that she was sexually assaulted during the session, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
