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A man accused of masturbating in public in view of a local pickleball court is back behind bars.

Police say 50-year-old Arlington resident Alexei Rodriguez was seen peeping into homes, exposing himself and masturbating last night on the 300 block of S. Glebe Road, near Thomas Jefferson Middle School. He was arrested after a foot chase.


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An Ohio man has been arrested and charged with raping a woman in a Rosslyn area apartment last year.

The crime happened in the early morning hours of Oct. 29, 2023, after police say an “unknown male suspect gained entry to the victim’s residence, entered her bedroom… then raped the victim before fleeing the residence on foot.”


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An arrest has been made in connection to the after-hours theft of more than 25 cellphones from a store in the Lee-Harrison Shopping Center.

A 25-year-old suspect was apprehended yesterday (Tuesday) as police executed a search warrant, police said. It happened at a house on N. Florida Street, in the Yorktown neighborhood, less than half a mile from the electronics store he is accused of burglarizing earlier this month, a witness told ARLnow.


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An Arlington man is dead and another young man has been charged in the crash that claimed his life.

Police and medics responded around 2 a.m. to a crash along the 2200 block of N. Harrison Street, in the Tara-Leeway Heights neighborhood south of Langston Blvd. A car being driven northbound by an 18-year-old Arlington resident struck several parked vehicles and overturned, according to Arlington County police.


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A 54-year-old Arlington man has been arrested and charged with five sex offenses in connection to the so-called “Georgetown cuddler” case.

Federal prosecutors and D.C. police announced the arrest today, in a string of incidents that happened more than a decade ago. Prosecutors say Ernesto Mercado is the man who broke into several homes in the Georgetown neighborhood between 2008-2012 and sexually assaulted women while they slept.


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A 29-year-old man is behind bars after allegedly fighting police inside a Metro station.

The incident started around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday with a report of a shoplifter — described as a man with tattoos on his face — threatening employees at the CVS at 3141 Wilson Blvd in Clarendon.


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An 18-year-old man from Arlington has been charged with DUI Maiming after a crash at the Bluemont 7-Eleven store.

The crash happened just before 8 p.m. this past Saturday, Sept. 14. Police say the teen was drunk when he drove his vehicle through the front of the store at 5122 Wilson Blvd, seriously injuring a woman.


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An Arlington County Fire Department employee has been charged in connection to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

An FBI affidavit says Brian Holmes was part of a mob of rioters that assaulted police officers as they pushed their way towards the Capitol building.


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Two 20-year-olds were arrested after allegedly parking a stolen vehicle down the street from the Arlington police headquarters in Courthouse.

ACPD officers said they came across the vehicle on Aug. 31 at the intersection of 13th Street N. and N. Courthouse Road — roughly a block away from the police station.


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Police officers in tactical gear, armored vehicles, and — reportedly — a drone descended on Arlington’s Green Valley neighborhood early Wednesday.

The operation, as described to ARLnow by one local resident, happened around 5:30 a.m. and also involved at least one K-9 unit.


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