A D.C. man could spend decades in prison following a guilty plea for his role in a series of carjackings across the region in 2024, including two locations in Bailey’s Crossroads.
Taurian Anderson, 21, pleaded guilty Monday (Aug. 17) to one count of conspiracy to commit carjacking, one count of carjacking and aiding and abetting, and to two counts of using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
A man who allegedly fired a gun in the area of Reston’s Shadowood Condominiums this morning (Monday) is now in police custody.
Police officers and medical responders with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched to an address on Stoneview Square for a shooting at around 8:49 a.m., according to scanner traffic.
A Northern Virginia woman believes her dashcam and cell phone recordings of an encounter with masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Bailey’s Crossroads on Monday (Aug. 10) saved her life.
Carolina Molina returned yesterday (Wednesday) near the site along Columbia Pike where an ICE agent drew his gun and pointed it at her to provide further details of the encounter, which made waves after she posted footage of it on Instagram.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents confronted a driver and accused her of trying to run them over in a Bailey’s Crossroads parking lot earlier this week — a claim contradicted by video recordings that the woman captured of the encounter.
One of the ICE agents, dressed in a police vest and a balaclava that covers his face except for his eyes, pointed a gun at the woman while yelling at her for recording them and claiming “you almost ran us over,” a cellphone video posted on Instagram on Monday (Aug. 10) shows.
A Lorton teen was charged with reckless discharge of a firearm after firing a gun into the ground near homes in a West Springfield neighborhood, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
Officers responded to the 5000 block of Hall Street at 5:43 p.m. Wednesday (Aug. 5) for a report of a shooting.
The Fairfax County Police Department has released two still images from the body camera of an officer who fired his gun on Tuesday (July 28) at a suspect he was pursuing, after the man allegedly attempted to disarm him.
The first image appears to depict a man in a bush — identified by police as Nehemia Fuentes Banegas, of Annandale — holding the officer’s gun. The second shows two utility knives on the ground.
The Fairfax County Police Department has charged a Fair Oaks man in connection with his wife’s death after she died from gunshot wounds last night (July 12).
Leland Jameson, 64, has been charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in commission of a felony. He is being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center without bond.
A Woodbridge man could spend as many as 15 years in prison after pleading guilty last week to possessing a gun despite having a felony conviction on his record, the U.S. Justice Department says.
Khari Wheeler, 27, was arrested on Feb. 18 of this year after a loaded gun “fell from his person” while he was allegedly attempting to flee Fairfax County police officers at an apartment community in Herndon, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Virginia is facing another lawsuit over its newly adopted but not-yet-enacted ban on future sales and manufacturing of assault firearms.
The Trump administration sued the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia State Police in federal court today (Wednesday), arguing that its planned restrictions on gun sales violate the Second Amendment.
More than 1,100 bills came out of this year’s Virginia General Assembly session, and many will take effect tomorrow (Wednesday).
After Democrats gained a trifecta with last year’s election of Gov. Abigail Spanberger and control of the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates, legislators’ bills focused on priorities like immigration enforcement, gun control, housing and tenant protections, reproductive rights and more.
