A 27-year-old man was arrested over the weekend after allegedly trying to knife someone during an early morning altercation near Clarendon’s bar district.
It happened around 2 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Washington Blvd and N. Garfield Street. The man “became agitated” while talking to the male victim and tried to strike him with a knife, according to Arlington County police.
Police are investigating an attempted bank robbery in Ballston and an attempted carjacking near Columbia Pike.
The incidents both happened last Thursday.
A man, 70, and a woman, 25, were arrested over the weekend after separate incidents involving knives along the same block of Columbia Pike.
Both incidents happened in the early morning hours of Saturday, the day after the Fourth of July.
A pair of seemingly dramatic police actions rattled locals in two Arlington neighborhoods yesterday.
The first happened around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday on N. Highland Street near Clarendon Blvd and the Trader Joe’s store in Clarendon. Tipsters described a sudden rush of unmarked and marked police units making an arrest with guns drawn.
An Arlington Public Schools employee has been arrested for alleged inappropriate contact with a female student.
Rene Alfredo Escobar Jr., a 31-year-old instructional assistant assigned to Washington-Liberty High School, faces charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and committing a second stalking offense within five years.
Immigration officers say they have arrested an undocumented man previously convicted of killing a pedestrian with his car just south of Arlington.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced yesterday (Wednesday) that it had detained Alvaro Alejandro Pacheco Ramos, described by ICE as “an illegally present Salvadoran alien.”
A 36-year-old man is the county jail after being tracked down in Europe following a shooting in Clarendon two years ago.
Arlington County police say Taha Zouheir fled the country after shooting another man in the early morning hours of June 4, 2023. The shooting followed an early morning dispute of some kind, police said.
A woman has been arrested after allegedly defrauding a family out of $26,000 following the death of an Arlington resident.
Yesenia Amaya, 34, reportedly created a GoFundMe to support the immediate family of a juvenile who died in September 2023.
A 35-year-old man accused of exposing himself and masturbating near children has a lengthy list of recent arrests.
Police say Sami Kasawat committed the lewd act around 3 p.m. last Tuesday in the area of Oakland Park in Virginia Square. He fled the scene but was arrested the next day in Courthouse.
Arlington County police are investigating a pair of separate Sunday incidents involving teen suspects with weapons.
The first happened early Sunday morning in the Crystal City area, when four teen boys brandished what looked like a gun and stole a victim’s jewelry.
A 28-year-old reportedly trying to pass classified documents to a foreign government last week is the latest episode in a long history of espionage-related cases in Arlington.
Nathan Vilas Laatsch, an IT specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency, was arrested on Thursday after allegedly arranging to hand sensitive records to an undercover FBI agent in an Arlington park.
A 28-year-old Alexandria man is due in court today after he allegedly tried to pass classified documents to a foreign government.
Nathan Vilas Laatsch was employed as an IT specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency when he “offered to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government,” according to the Justice Department.
