A man found asleep behind the wheel sped off after he woke up Saturday afternoon, hitting a police car and forcing two medics to run out of the way, according to the Arlington County police.
Officers and medics were sent to the 1700 block of N. Quinn Street, in the Rosslyn area, around 3:25 p.m. ACPD lists the call as a report of public intoxication in which a man was seen slumped over the wheel of a car parked next to a building.
Three teens are facing charges after allegedly robbing another teen of his shoes at knifepoint near Pentagon City.
It happened around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on the 900 block of 15th Street S., on the border of Aurora Highlands and Pentagon City. The victim was outside when the three approached and demanded his shoes, police said. One of them pulled out a knife and threatened him before the group ran off with the shoes.
A late-night brawl spilled into Columbia Pike outside a hookah lounge early Sunday, a night after a man was hit with a glass bottle inside a business on the same block.
Video of Sunday’s fight, posted (below) by local public safety watcher Dave Statter, shows a group of people grappling in the street near S. Walter Reed Drive as a crowd watches from the sidewalk outside the lounge.
A man has been found guilty of attacking a woman at a restroom in Pentagon City following a series of assaults in Reston last year.
Koby Berry, 28, was found guilty of assault and battery following a trial on Oct. 26 in Arlington County General District Court.
A group of teenagers in a park near Washington-Liberty High School reportedly attacked a peer during school hours earlier this week.
The assault, which a local parent says follows other troubling incidents at Oak Grove Park, took place around 2 p.m. on Monday. It involved a group of teens trying to steal a boy’s shoes and jacket, police spokesperson Ashley Savage told ARLnow.
A pair of suspects were arrested last night (Wednesday) after reportedly throwing rocks at a business in Ballston and attacking an employee who confronted them.
The suspects, aged 20 and 19, were seen throwing rocks shortly before 8:10 p.m., according to a preliminary incident report from the Arlington County Police Department.
Fights broke out as police and mall security cleared a large group of teens out of Ballston Quarter on Friday night.
Officers were dispatched to the 4200 block of Wilson Blvd shortly after 9 p.m. Friday (Oct. 9) to help security get the group off the property, according to preliminary incident summaries the Arlington County Police Department provided to ARLnow.
A man is facing a string of assault charges after police say he attacked six people, including a sheriff’s deputy, in Virginia Square and Courthouse on Friday night.
The first incident happened around 10 p.m. at N. Quincy Street and Wilson Blvd, where police say the man hit two men and pepper sprayed one of them.
Police used a Taser to subdue a man who allegedly advanced on an officer with a broken bottle outside a Clarendon business Saturday morning.
Officers were called to a reported assault in the 2700 block of Wilson Blvd around 11 a.m. They determined that a man had walked into the business, broken a glass bottle and begun waving it around, according to the Arlington County Police Department.
A 25-year-old man is being held without bond after an assault along Columbia Pike that left another man with serious injuries.
A patrol officer was flagged down around 10 p.m. Tuesday at the Columbia Pike and S. Dinwiddie Street, on the border of the Columbia Forest and Arlington Mill neighborhoods, according to the Arlington County Police Department.
A man is facing felony charges after an Arlington County police officer allegedly came upon him choking a robbery victim in Courthouse early yesterday morning (Monday).
The attack happened at 15th Street N. at N. Courthouse Road, a block from Arlington County police headquarters.
Traffic cameras captured a pair of fights that spilled outside of Arlington bars over the weekend.
The first happened at Ricky’s Pub and Grill at 237 N. Glebe Road, in the Buckingham neighborhood, around 12:45 a.m. Sunday.
