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A woman was found dead outside of the entrance to the Rosslyn Metro station Sunday afternoon, prompting a death investigation.

So far, the death is not believed to be suspicious in nature, Arlington County police tell ARLnow.


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The victim of a fatal crash on S. Glebe Road over the weekend has been identified as a 48-year-old Arlington resident.

The Arlington County Police Department has identified Katherine Krueger as the pedestrian fatally struck on Sunday night at S. Glebe Road and 14th Street S.


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Police responded to the Arlington County Fair on Friday and Saturday for separate incidents involving teens.

The first happened Friday night when a teen suspect allegedly flashed what appeared to be a gun at an officer.


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Two pedestrians, a man and a woman, were killed in separate crashes on a stormy Sunday night.

The first happened shortly after 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of Carlin Springs Road and Columbia Pike, just over the Arlington border in Fairfax County. A man was struck by a Metrobus turning right onto Carlin Springs Road from Columbia Pike.


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The Arlington County Board approved a new contract for the county’s independent policing auditor following almost three hours of closed-door conversation this week.

Little public discussion came before or after the vote on the employment agreement with Mummi Ibrahim, who has served in the post since 2022. However, the outcome of the meeting — which appeared to focus on criminal justice issues — is that Ibrahim will now serve at the pleasure of the County Board, rather than County Manager Mark Schwartz, Board spokesperson David Barrera told ARLnow.


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A Maryland man has been charged with armed carjacking after a woman’s SUV was stolen at gunpoint in Cherrydale last month.

Tyler Abrahim Afsar, 23, of Hyattsville, Md., is also charged with robbery, grand larceny auto, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the Arlington County Police Department said in a press release today. Detectives obtained warrants for his arrest yesterday (Wednesday).


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Police are investigating a series of burglaries and attempted burglaries that took place in two neighborhoods near Rosslyn over the weekend.

A male suspect is described as entering or trying to enter at least six homes and rummaging through belongings. Police say he stole a wallet and keys on one occasion, but in most cases, no items were reported stolen, according to preliminary incident reports.


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Two suspects, one of them a former Prince George’s County police officer, have been arrested following an Arlington auto fraud investigation.

The investigation spanned over a year, the Arlington County Police Department said in a press release today (Tuesday). Officers allege that both suspects, former police officer Sierra Alston and Renaldo Gaines, “conspired to steal vehicles, acquire stolen vehicles and subsequently alter those vehicles’ VINs to disguise them from detection.”


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A honk at two people riding scooters in the road escalated into a thrown rock and a kicked car in south Arlington, according to Arlington County police.

It happened around 6:45 p.m. yesterday (Thursday) in the 2900 block of S. Glebe Road, near Four Mile Run Drive.


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