Reported crimes declined in all major categories between 2024 and 2025 in Virginia, with some rates reaching five-year lows.
Paralleling similar decreases in Arlington, overall violent crime dropped by 6%, from 19,862 crimes in 2024 to 18,722 in 2025, according to a dashboard from Virginia State Police.
A suspect accused of stealing a woman’s car at gunpoint in Cherrydale was arrested yesterday evening (Tuesday) following a chase and rollover crash in D.C.
The Prince George’s County Police Department spotted the stolen SUV around 11 p.m., hours after the original incident that took place around 1 p.m. yesterday at 18th Street N. and N. Randolph Street.
Update on 7/15/26 — An arrest has been made in the case.
Arlington County police are on scene of an armed carjacking in a residential portion of the Cherrydale neighborhood.
A 57-year-old Arlington man is facing a felony charge after police say he beat someone he knows with a combination lock Sunday afternoon.
The alleged incident happened in a residential building on the 2000 block of 14th Street N., a block away from Arlington County police headquarters in Courthouse.
Arlington police are investigating a series of attacks with a BB gun or pellet gun in recent days.
Two of the incidents damaged windows, and another sent a victim to the hospital for “serious, non-life threatening injuries,” according to preliminary incident reports from the Arlington County Police Department.
An Arlington man has been arrested over alleged sexual offenses involving a teenager, and police are seeking additional possible victims.
Jeremy Mishler, 42, was arrested today (Monday) on charges of “taking indecent liberties with a child by a person in a supervisory or custodial relationship.” He also faces charges of assault and battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the Arlington County Police Department said in a press release.
Traffic-safety proponents on Tuesday (June 30) hailed a new Virginia law they believe will provide another tool to address reckless “super-speeders” on Virginia roadways.
Legislation adopted by the General Assembly last year goes into effect July 1, permitting judges to enroll those charged or convicted of certain speeding offenses in a new program using technology to limit vehicle speeds.
A woman has died after her vehicle veered off Lorcom Lane and struck a parked car in a driveway.
Mauricia Flores De Andrade, 61, of Burke, was alone in the vehicle, Arlington County police said. She was taken to a hospital, where she died.
Drivers who speed through five Arlington school zones this summer can still expect a $100 ticket.
The county’s PhotoSPEED speed cameras at those locations will stay on through Arlington Public Schools’ summer session, which runs July 6 through 31, police said.
The Arlington County Board says a UFC fight at the White House that featured two of the County’s uniformed police officers “exploited good faith efforts to honor the 25th anniversary of 9/11.”
The two officers, both first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon, escorted a fighter to the Octagon at UFC Freedom 250 on June 14, the event President Trump hosted on the White House South Lawn to mark his 80th birthday and the country’s 250th anniversary. They were among the 9/11 first responders invited by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a non-profit established in memory of an FDNY firefighter who died in the attacks.
Someone smashed the windows of 14 vehicles in the Arlington Mill neighborhood early Tuesday — the second such spree in the area in recent days.
Officers found the damaged vehicles in the 5000 block of 7th Road S. around 1:45 a.m. on June 23, according to the Arlington County Police Department. The broken windows were all on the driver’s side, and police have no suspect descriptions.
The driver’s-side windows of nine vehicles were smashed in the Forest Glen neighborhood early Sunday morning, police say.
Officers found the damaged vehicles in the 700 block of S. Florida Street, a few blocks north of Columbia Pike, after being called out around 4:15 a.m. on June 21. A witness saw three suspects try to force their way into a 10th vehicle and flee when they couldn’t get in, according to the Arlington County Police Department.
