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D.C. man charged with a dozen vehicle break-ins and thefts in Reston area

Published December 30, 2025 at 11:45AM | Updated December 31, 2025 at 3:14PM

A Fairfax County police vehicle at Reston Town Center (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A man from D.C. is facing more than two dozen criminal charges in connection with a series of vehicle break-ins and thefts reported in western Fairfax County.

According to the Fairfax County Police Department, detectives believe the 30-year-old man is behind 12 different incidents that occurred in Reston, McNair and the Greenbriar area east of Chantilly, starting with a vehicle tampering and theft reported on May 31 in the 13600 block of Dulles Technology Drive near the Innovation Center Metro station.

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UPDATED: Pedestrian dies after being struck twice on Route 29 in Merrifield

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 29, 2025 at 8:25PM | Updated December 30, 2025 at 12:21PM

Route 29 is closed after fatal pedestrian crash near Braxton Wood Court in Merrifield (via Google Maps)

Another pedestrian has been killed in a crash on Fairfax County roads.

Officers were dispatched for a crash involving a pedestrian at Route 29 and Braxton Wood Court, just north of the Providence Place (formerly Pan Am) shopping center, in Merrifield at 6:48 p.m. on Monday (Dec. 29), according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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FCPD: Annandale HS employee charged with assaulting student

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 29, 2025 at 8:30AM

Annandale High School (staff photo by James Jarvis)

An instructional assistant at Annandale High School is facing criminal charges after allegedly assaulting a student earlier this month.

A school resource officer was notified on Dec. 19 that Jaime Gerardo Gallo Pacheco, a 33-year-old Annandale resident, had reportedly physically assaulted a student earlier that day, the Fairfax County Police Department says.

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Man in Fairfax County Parkway median was killed in crash, police confirm

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 26, 2025 at 8:30AM

Fairfax County Police Department Capt. Jesse Katzman discusses death investigation after a man was found dead in a Fairfax County Parkway median on Dec. 24, 2025 (via FCPD/Facebook)

The Fairfax County Police Department has confirmed that the man found dead in a median on Fairfax County Parkway on Wednesday (Dec. 24) was a pedestrian killed in a crash.

Officers responded at 9:43 a.m. that day after a community member who was driving by on the parkway reported seeing a possible body in the grassy median near Old Plains Road in the Fair Oaks area.

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UPDATED: Body found in Fairfax County Parkway median, closing road

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 23, 2025 at 11:15AM | Updated December 23, 2025 at 12:51PM

Fairfax County Parkway shut down at Rolling Road for a police death investigation (via VDOT traffic camera)

Fairfax County police are investigating the death of an unidentified man whose body was found this morning (Tuesday) in the median of Fairfax County Parkway.

The adult man was discovered lying in the median near Old Plains Road just northwest of Inova Fair Oaks Hospital by a community member who spotted the body while driving and called 911, Fairfax County Police Department Capt. Jesse Katzman said in a briefing.

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Man charged with murder for fatal Reston shooting

By Jared Serre

Published December 19, 2025 at 9:20AM | Updated December 19, 2025 at 10:26AM

Marvin Fernando Morales Ortez and the firearm allegedly used in the Dec. 17, 2025 fatal shooting of Marvin Ernesto Morales in Reston (photos via FCPD/X)

A Reston man was released from the custody of the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday (Dec. 17) less than 24 hours before allegedly killing another man, police said.

After a nearly two-hour manhunt, 23-year-old Marvin Fernando Morales-Ortez was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with one count of second degree murder — a felony that carries a maximum of 40 years in prison.

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UPDATED: Man fatally shot in Reston, suspect arrested after intense search

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 17, 2025 at 1:55PM | Updated December 18, 2025 at 8:41PM

Fairfax County police on Cocquina Drive at Glade Drive in Reston for fatal shooting investigation (staff photo)

A man was fatally shot in south Reston this morning (Wednesday), prompting an extensive police search for another man believed to be the suspect.

Fairfax County police officers were dispatched to the 12300 block of Fan Shell Court in the Cocquina Cluster around 11:49 a.m. after a 911 caller reported that his mother had arrived at the house and found it to be “a mess,” suggesting a possible break-in, according to scanner traffic.

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UPDATED: Taxi driver killed, three injured in Richmond Highway crash

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 15, 2025 at 12:30PM | Updated December 16, 2025 at 12:58PM

Police block northbound Richmond Highway at North Kings Highway in Groveton after a fatal crash (via VDOT traffic cameras)

One person has died and three other people were injured Monday morning (Dec. 15) in a crash involving a taxi, a Metrobus and a van on Richmond Highway in Groveton.

Police received multiple calls reporting a crash in the 6300 block of Richmond Highway shortly after 10 a.m., Fairfax County Police Department Capt. Jesse Katzman said in a media update around 1 p.m.

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Fairfax leaders to honor police for response to 2021 attack on U.S. Capitol

By Scott McCaffrey

Published December 15, 2025 at 8:30AM

The U.S. Capitol Building in D.C. (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors next month will honor the efforts of local police to restore and maintain order at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

With the attack’s five-year anniversary nearing, the board voted 9-0 at its Dec. 9 meeting in support of a proposed commemorative proclamation sponsored by supervisors Rodney Lusk (Franconia) and Dan Storck (Mount Vernon) with Chairman Jeff McKay.

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UPDATED: FCPD investigating after body found in Seven Corners lake

By Angela Woolsey and Jared Serre

Published December 11, 2025 at 9:40AM | Updated December 11, 2025 at 10:48AM

Fairfax County Police Capt. Jesse Katzman discusses death investigation in Water's Edge neighborhood (via FCPD/X)

Local police are investigating after a body was located this morning (Thursday) in a Seven Corners lake.

Fairfax County police responded to the 3300 block of Lakeside View Drive in the Water’s Edge neighborhood around 8:07 a.m. after community members reported seeing the body of an adult man floating in the lake.