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Centreville man charged with assaulting rideshare passenger

Published March 24, 2025 at 9:00AM

Fairfax County police logo (file photo)

A Centreville man has been charged with assault after allegedly attacking a passenger in the rideshare vehicle he was driving.

According to the Fairfax County Police Department, detectives went to Prince William County on March 18 for a reported assault case.

Cocaine delivery service leads to federal prison sentence for Reston man

By Angela Woolsey

Published March 4, 2025 at 9:00AM

The George Gordon Meade Memorial Statue outside the federal courthouse for the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Court House in D.C. (via Google Maps)

A Reston man’s days of delivering cocaine in D.C. appear to be at an end.

Dusan Dimic, 41, was sentenced last week to 41 months — or three years and five months — in federal prison for driving rental and rideshare vehicles as part of a drug trafficking operation, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C.

McLean ride-share startup seeks to challenge Uber and Lyft by putting drivers in control

By Angela Woolsey

Published December 27, 2022 at 11:45AM | Updated December 28, 2022 at 1:56PM

The McLean-based ride-sharing startup Empower pitches itself as a more driver-friendly alternative to Uber and Lyft (courtesy Empower)

Empower founder and CEO Joshua Sear is the kind of ride-share passenger who likes to talk to his drivers.

It was through those casual conversations that he came up with an idea in 2018 for an app that would offer a viable alternative to the country’s top ride-hailing services — Uber and Lyft — by letting drivers keep all the money they make in exchange for a subscription fee.