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FCPD: Falls Church HS teacher and others charged in online child exploitation operation

Published February 11, 2025 at 1:15PM | Updated February 11, 2025 at 1:31PM

Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis announces arrests by child exploitation unit detectives on Feb. 11, 2025 (via FCPD/Facebook)

A recent online operation conducted by child exploitation detectives resulted in seven arrests, including that of a Falls Church High School teacher, the Fairfax County Police Department announced this morning (Tuesday).

Richard Berkowitz, a health and physical education teacher at the school in West Falls Church, was arrested on Jan. 29, two days into the operation, but Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid was asked to hold off on notifying the community so the operation could continue, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said at a press conference.

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JUST IN: FCPS teacher charged with sexually assaulting students

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 7, 2025 at 2:20PM | Updated February 7, 2025 at 3:43PM

Fairview Elementary School teacher John Barger has been charged with sexual assault (via FCPD)

A local elementary school teacher is facing criminal charges for allegedly sexually assaulting two students.

Fairfax County’s Child Protective Services received a tip on Jan. 17 reporting that a student at Fairview Elementary School (5815 Ox Road) in Fairfax Station had been sexually assaulted by a teacher, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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FCPD: Springfield man charged with attempted sexual assault

By Angela Woolsey

Published February 5, 2025 at 8:15AM

Police have charged Yapheth Ably Emiru with allegedly attempting to sexually assault a woman in Springfield (courtesy Fairfax County Police Department)

A man who tried to sexually assault a woman near the Springfield Crossing apartments late last month has been arrested, Fairfax County police announced yesterday (Tuesday).

According to the Fairfax County Police Department, officers were called to the 6700 block of Metropolitan Center Drive shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 27 for a report of an abduction and an attempted sexual assault.

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Suspect in Herndon rape was released from jail days earlier, sheriff’s office says

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 21, 2024 at 8:15AM | Updated November 21, 2024 at 11:49AM

Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard discusses the arrest of a man suspected of raping a woman on the W&OD Trail (via Herndon Police Department/Facebook)

The man charged with raping a woman in Herndon on Monday (Nov. 18) had been sentenced to jail less than a week earlier, the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office says.

Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, 31, was previously arrested by Herndon Police for a separate incident and brought to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on Oct. 20, according to the sheriff’s office.

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UPDATED: Man charged with rape on W&OD Trail in Herndon

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 19, 2024 at 2:30PM | Updated November 19, 2024 at 4:05PM

Washington & Old Dominion Trail crossing at Grace Street in Herndon (via Google Maps)

Herndon police have arrested a man in connection with a reported sexual assault that occurred on the Washington & Old Dominion Trail yesterday (Monday).

Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, 31, has been charged with rape and abduction with the intent to defile after allegedly attacking a woman on the trail between Ferndale Avenue and Grace Street last night, the Herndon Police Department announced.

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NEW: Rideshare driver charged with sexually assaulting passenger in Fair Lakes

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 18, 2024 at 5:00PM

Fairfax County police vehicle with blue lights on (file photo)

A Fairfax man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman he was driving as a rideshare worker.

Officers were dispatched to the 12000 block of Strong Court in the Fair Ridge neighborhood at 11:47 p.m. on Aug. 10 after receiving a report of a sexual assault, the Fairfax County Police Department says.

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Man arrested in connection with 40-year-old sexual assaults in Great Falls

By Fatimah Waseem

Published September 23, 2024 at 9:45AM

Edward Shelton in the 1980s and in a 2024 mug shot (courtesy FCPD)

A Fredericksburg man was arrested and charged last week in connection with sexual assaults that allegedly occurred over 40 years ago at a horse farm in Great Falls.

Edward Shelton, 81, turned himself in to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office last Thursday, Sept. 19, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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New CIA workplace assault case emerges as spy agency shields extent of sexual misconduct in ranks

By Associated Press

Published September 11, 2024 at 2:30PM

The CIA seal next to a U.S. flag at the agency's Langley headquarters (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — At an impromptu party in the office to celebrate his 50th birthday, a veteran CIA officer got drunk, reached up a colleague’s skirt and forcibly kissed her in front of stunned co-workers, prosecutors alleged in the latest case of sexual misconduct to spill from the spy agency into a public court.

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UPDATED: Reston man charged with unlawfully filming FCPS students

By Angela Woolsey and James Jarvis

Published September 4, 2024 at 1:30PM | Updated September 4, 2024 at 2:43PM

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid and Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis discuss an investigation into a former FCPS contractor who allegedly filmed students (staff photo by James Jarvis)

Fairfax County police have filed new charges against a Reston man who was already facing sexual assault and child porn allegations.

Arturo Elmore-Adon, 25, was charged yesterday (Tuesday) with seven counts of unlawful filming after detectives found videos he had allegedly taken of four girls, all of them Fairfax County Public Schools students, the Fairfax County Police Department announced today.

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JUST IN: Reston man charged with sexually assaulting child at South Lakes Village store

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 14, 2024 at 12:10PM | Updated August 30, 2024 at 4:36PM

South Lakes Village Center (file photo)

A Reston man has been arrested after he allegedly sexually assaulted a child at a store in the South Lakes Village Shopping Center.

Police officers were dispatched to the 11100 block of South Lakes Drive at 10:30 p.m. last Friday (Aug. 9) for a reported assault, the Fairfax County Police Department says.