Arlington Public Schools is addressing “concerns and recent media reports about the presence of a registered sex offender at the Arlington Aquatic Center pools.”
In a message sent to APS families and pool users Wednesday afternoon, Superintendent Dr. Francisco Durán said the school system is taking action “to prevent incidents like this from occurring again.”
A sex offender is facing numerous charges after he allegedly exposed himself inside the girls’ locker room at the Washington-Liberty High School pool.
The incident on Monday, Oct. 21 is coming to light now and receiving national attention after WJLA reported that Richard Kenneth Cox was allowed to access the girl’s locker room at the W-L aquatics center, which is open to the public for certain portions of the day, after identifying as a transgender.
A local man has been arrested and accused of setting a series of small fires outside of restaurants along Crystal City’s 23rd Street restaurant row.
The Arlington County Fire Department announced the arrest Thursday afternoon, identifying the suspect as Timothy C. Pollock.
A 27-year-old Arlington man is facing numerous charges after allegedly becoming violent while on the way to the hospital.
Arlington County police say Yeison Orellana Perez injured himself while drunk and was transported by medics from the 3700 block of Columbia Pike yesterday.
Arlington County police are looking for a man who brandished a gun at a woman whose car he broke into.
The incident happened Monday afternoon in a Ballston area parking garage. Police say the victim confronted the man and grabbed her wallet back from him after finding the suspect rummaging through her car.
Two people were shot in a Ballston apartment building early New Year’s Day amid a chaotic night in parts of Arlington.
Police were dispatched to the Rixey building at the Marymount University Ballston campus just after 1 a.m. for a report of a person with a gun on an upper floor of the building. That floor is used for short-term rentals by an “apartment hotel” service, according to scanner traffic.
A store employee is facing serious charges after police say he confronted shoplifting suspects with a knife.
The incident happened last Thursday afternoon at the 7-Eleven store at 201 S. Glebe Road, near Thomas Jefferson Middle School.
A 39-year-old Arlington resident is in jail after a robbery of the Giant supermarket at Penrose Square.
The robbery happened around 2:40 p.m. Friday and involved an individual who allegedly shoplifted items and then implied having a weapon when confronted by employees.
A man initially stopped for fare evasion at the Pentagon City Metro station is now facing a series of charges, including assault on police.
The incident happened Wednesday afternoon and involved an officer deployed to the area as part of a retail crime crackdown.
A 17-year-old Arlington high school student has been arrested and charged with bringing a loaded gun to school Monday.
The incident happened at Arlington Community High School, which is currently located on Fairfax Drive in Ballston. The school was placed on lockdown after police say a security guard spotted the gun in a student’s backpack.
A local man is facing various charges after a violent alleged incident in the Rosslyn area Wednesday afternoon.
It happened around 1 p.m., outside of an apartment building on the 1600 block of 18th Street N. That’s also near the Rosslyn Highlands playground.
Update on 7/2/25: The suspect in this case was acquitted, DC News Now reports.
Earlier: An Arlington Public Schools employee has been arrested after allegedly soliciting sex from an underage female student.
