Arlington’s annual celebration of Latin American culture is set to take over Arlington Mill Community Center tomorrow (Saturday) evening.
The free Festival Latinoamericano runs from 5-9 p.m. outdoors and 5-8 p.m. inside the community center at 909 S. Dinwiddie Street, along Columbia Pike. The event, organized by the county’s parks department, coincides with Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs through Oct. 15.
Someone smashed the windows of 14 vehicles in the Arlington Mill neighborhood early Tuesday — the second such spree in the area in recent days.
Officers found the damaged vehicles in the 5000 block of 7th Road S. around 1:45 a.m. on June 23, according to the Arlington County Police Department. The broken windows were all on the driver’s side, and police have no suspect descriptions.
A proposal to designate an Arlington Mill garden-apartment complex as a local historic district will not move forward following opposition from the property owner and neighborhood civic association.
Members of the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB) voted Oct. 15 not to embark on a staff study of the historical significance of the 1940s-era Haven Columbia Pike apartments. The vote concluded a three-year gestation period after the proposal was submitted by local activist Bernie Berne.
A 25-year-old Arlington man and a teen boy are facing charges after a man was stabbed several times Friday night along S. Arlington Mill Drive.
A motive for the attack, which prompted a large police response, was not given. The victim was hospitalized “with injuries considered non-life-threatening.”
A new collaboration between a South Arlington church and a local artist is seeking to memorialize places where immigration enforcement has arrested people in Arlington.
Led by the Rev. Ashley Goff, members of Arlington Presbyterian Church, artist Sushmita Mazumdar and other “trusted neighbors” set out yesterday (Tuesday) to locations where residents have documented recent detainments by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
An Arlington teen awaiting trial over his alleged role in a 2023 stabbing has been arrested on a robbery charge.
Police took Kamron Tartt, 19, into custody in Arlington’s Green Valley neighborhood on Feb. 6, shortly after he was identified as a person of interest in a robbery, an ACPD spokesperson told ARLnow.
A fight in the Arlington Mill neighborhood has led to a series of charges against a local teen.
The fight happened Saturday night along the 5100 block of 7th Road S. and prompted a call to police. One of the people in the group of juveniles seen fighting had a gun, a witness told officers.
Arlington County police are warning of a man who has been grabbing people from behind in a sexual manner.
The incidents have taken place in the Arlington Mill neighborhood and typically involve female victims having their buttocks touched inappropriately by the suspect, who then flees the scene well before police arrive, according to ACPD.
Arlington County police are looking for a pair of suspects who robbed the 7-Eleven in Bluemont Saturday night.
The suspects went behind the store’s counter, threatened to kill an employee unless they opened the registers, and then ran off with cigarettes and cash, according to an ACPD crime report and scanner traffic.
A woman was carjacked in Pentagon City last night.
It happened shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday — on Halloween — in a parking garage on the 1200 block of S. Fern Street, near Costco. A male suspect, accompanied by a female suspect, pulled a gun and demanded the keys to the woman’s Audi A4, according to police.
Three men beat and seriously injured a driver early Sunday morning in a fit of apparent road rage.
That’s according to the latest Arlington County police crime report. The beating allegedly happened after the victim honked his horn while at a stop sign in the Arlington Mill neighborhood, north of Columbia Pike.
The Columbia Pike Movie Nights lineup for this summer has been announced.
This year’s films, screened outdoors on Friday and Saturday nights, include old-school classics like Dirty Dancing and Top Gun as well as more recent releases such as Barbie, The Color Purple and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
