A teen girl is facing charges after police say she threw food at an officer in Pentagon City.
The incident happened this past Friday around 5:15 p.m. at the Pentagon City Metro station. The girl started throwing food at an officer who stopped her male companion for fare evasion, according to an Arlington County Police Department crime report.
A stricter policy on banning riders from the Metro system has some leaders optimistic about better safety in Northern Virginia.
Beginning June 2, the policy will allow the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to impose longer bans on people arrested for sex crimes or assaults on Metro employees and customers.
One of the safest neighborhoods in Arlington is getting additional security patrols for the next few months.
The Rosslyn BID is deploying new personnel to conduct patrols, support law enforcement and otherwise assist local residents and visitors.
More than two months later, the driver who struck and killed a 32-year-old in a January crash in Ballston is still in the hospital and police continue to investigate the incident.
The unnamed driver, identified only as a 71-year-old man, was behind the wheel of the pickup truck that slammed into another vehicle near the intersection of Wilson Blvd and N. Glebe Road on Jan. 27, killing McLean resident Xuewei He.
A man wanted in two jurisdictions by federal authorities was taken into custody in Ballston earlier this week.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Service arrested 22-year-old Tyler Jordan Clendenen on Tuesday, mere feet from the entrance to the Ballston Metro station.
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.
A high-visibility traffic enforcement initiative is kicking off next week in Arlington.
The region-wide Street Smart campaign, which runs from Monday, April 7 through Sunday, May 4, focuses on reducing traffic-related crashes and educating drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists about the law.
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.
Two teens were taken in custody after an unsuccessful armed carjacking attempt in Pentagon City over the weekend.
The incident, which happened early Saturday morning a few blocks from Amazon’s HQ2, was caught on camera. Local public safety watcher Dave Statter posted video of the suspects hiding in wait, then the would-be victims fleeing on foot.
A group of protesters carrying a coffin draped with a Palestinian flag received trespassing citations this morning after entering a Rosslyn office building.
A crowd of about 30 people entered Arlington Tower, home of the Israel-based defense firm Elbit Systems, around 8:30 a.m. Monday, according to scanner traffic.
The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City was shut down Saturday evening after a series of large fights led to a massive, multi-agency police response.
The fights started breaking out among groups of teens and mall security around 6 p.m., according to scanner traffic. By 7 p.m., additional fights in the food court started escalating and all available officers were urgently dispatched to the mall.
The 18-year-old responsible for a rollover crash that claimed the life of an Arlington 19-year-old in October has been sentenced to two and a half years behind bars.
Brooks Thurston Bare received his sentence for DUI involuntary manslaughter yesterday (Thursday) following emotional statements from the parents of victim Nicholas Rados.
