Arlington County police are investigating gunfire early Sunday morning in the Hall’s Hill neighborhood.
The shot rang out around 3:30 a.m., according to an ACPD crime report, but no one was hurt and no damage was reported. While investigating, police arrested a Maryland man on drug related charges.
Arlington County police are looking for a trio of teens who allegedly stole from a toy store and struck a man who tried to intervene with their car.
The theft happened Saturday afternoon at Child’s Play Toys in the Lee Heights Shopping Center on Cherry Hill Road.
Update 2/20/26: The felony charge has been dropped, but the driver was found guilty of two misdemeanors: assault and battery and property damage under $1,000. He has received a suspended six-month sentence.
A 58-year-old Arlington man is in jail after police say he purposely struck a bicyclist with his car following an argument.
Arlington County police are investigating an armed robbery Sunday night in Ballston, among several notable incidents in the latest ACPD crime reports.
The robbery happened shortly before 8:30 p.m., along the 1000 block of N. Glebe Road. Police say a younger man armed with a gun demanded and then ran off with electronics and a bag from a male victim who was sitting outside.
Police are looking for a suspect in a serious assault in Crystal City.
It happened around 8 p.m. Wednesday along 23rd Street S., just east of Route 1. Police say the suspect approached the victim, demanded his backpack, and struck him with a glass bottle when he refused. The suspect fled and the victim was hospitalized with serious injuries.
A 25-year-old Arlington man and a teen boy are facing charges after a man was stabbed several times Friday night along S. Arlington Mill Drive.
A motive for the attack, which prompted a large police response, was not given. The victim was hospitalized “with injuries considered non-life-threatening.”
Three people are in jail after police say a man was beaten, robbed and threatened with machetes in two separate incidents.
The alleged incidents took place over the weekend just hours apart, on the same block of Columbia Pike, near the intersection with S. Four Mile Run Drive.
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.
Crime continued to increase in Arlington last year, according to police department stats, with notable upticks in reported assaults and shoplifting incidents.
The overall number of more serious “Group A” offenses increased 11% between 2023 and 2024, according to the Arlington County Police Department’s annual report released today (Tuesday).
A 42-year-old Arlington man is facing a number of charges, including DUI, after a crash that shut down a busy on-ramp Friday afternoon.
It started around 4:45 p.m., police say, when a driver veered off the road and struck another car at the Route 50 and Washington Blvd interchange. That driver then allegedly tried to climb a fence before returning to his car.
Arlington County police are investigating after gunfire rang out on Columbia Pike late Saturday night.
It happened around 11:45 p.m. near the Liberty gas station on the 2300 block of Columbia Pike. Two people got into a dispute, leading to one getting of their car and firing a shot at the other person in their vehicle, police said.
An Arlington man is behind bars after police say he injured five officers during a violent outburst outside of a community center last night.
The incident happened around 8:45 p.m. at the Langston-Brown Community Center, along Langston Blvd and next to the now-closed McDonald’s.
