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.
Arlington County police just announced an arrest in the Monday afternoon shooting in the Arlington View neighborhood.
Police say two groups of people were engaged in a dispute when “suspects from each group brandished and discharged firearms.” No injuries were reported.
Two police officers and at least one store security guard were hurt trying to take a theft suspect into custody Friday.
That’s according to the latest Arlington County Police Department crime report. Police say the man robbed a store in Pentagon City around 3 p.m., implied he had a weapon, and fled to the Metro station, where a confrontation with law enforcement took place.
The Arlington County Police Department has rolled out a new crime dashboard with up-to-date data on offenses and arrests.
The data hub, which went live today (Friday), includes interactive maps of offense locations, which users can sort by neighborhood, offense category, timeframe and police beat. It also delineates crime data by month and includes granular breakdowns of arrests based on offense codes and date.
A 67-year-old Arlington man was arrested after a spat with a driver allegedly turned destructive.
The incident happened just before 7 p.m. on along the 3800 block of Fairfax Drive, near Oakland Park in Virginia Square.
A man allegedly armed with a concealed firearm was arrested early Sunday morning in Clarendon.
The incident started around 2 a.m. when a witness stopped an officer near Bar Bao and reported seeing a man with a gun running through the area.
A 40-year-old Maryland man who was arrested at an Arlington hotel has pleaded guilty to a federal weapon charge.
The Waldorf resident was arrested Feb. 27 “at a hotel in Arlington County on an outstanding warrant for a parole violation following a drug distribution conviction in the District of Columbia,” according to a U.S. Dept. of Justice press release.
A 50-year-old man with multiple prior convictions has allegedly exposed himself again, to a child.
The alleged incident happened yesterday (Sunday) afternoon in Crystal City.
Arlington County police have released more information about a theft and shot fired incident in the Ballston area Wednesday evening.
A 50-year-old man is facing numerous charges after the wild incident, which started with a shoplifting at the Target store on N. Glebe Road.
Two teens are facing charges after a series of burglaries in the Virginia Square area led to a police chase and Taser deployment.
The incident started shortly before 1:30 a.m. this morning after police responded to a burglary in progress at the Arlington Tobacco store on the 3400 block of Washington Blvd. Arriving officers searched the area but could not locate the suspects, according to scanner traffic.
A 63-year-old Florida man has been arrested following the robbery of a Crystal City bank Monday morning.
Police say the man, who’s accused of passing a note to a teller and fleeing with stolen cash, was “identified and subsequently taken into custody in Washington, DC on [Tuesday] with the assistance of Metro Transit Police Department.”
Arlington County police say an 18-year-old Alexandria man shot and critically wounded another man in Courthouse last month.
ACPD announced the arrest of A-Jay Jones today, saying he pulled the trigger outside of a Courthouse hotel early on the morning of May 19. Police previously said the shooting happened as a result of a dispute between two groups of people.
