A driver accused of striking two pedestrians near Ballston and then fleeing the scene has been arrested.
Zai Atwater, 24, was taken into custody in D.C. over the alleged road rage incident, the Arlington County Police Department announced today.
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A D.C. man has been arrested in connection to a string of recent burglaries at Arlington businesses — including two break-ins at a popular Langston Blvd hardware store.
More than a dozen charges have been levied against Jimmie Lamont Williams, including four counts of burglary and five counts of destruction of property, the Arlington County Police Department announced Tuesday.
Arlington officials say they’re taking action behind the scenes to be ready for any possible surge in immigration enforcement locally.
“We have to be prepared,” Arlington County Board member Julius “JD” Spain, Sr., said at the Board’s Feb. 21 meeting. “We don’t want what happened in other parts of our nation to happen here, but if it does happen, we need to be prepared.”
A 58-year-old Arlington man has been found guilty of intentionally striking a bicyclist near Long Bridge Park, but he probably won’t serve time for it.
Samuel Thernstrom was found guilty of two misdemeanors on Tuesday: assault and battery and property damage under $1,000. He faced up to a year in jail but received only a suspended six-month sentence, according to court records.
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An 18-year-old Arlington resident was arrested yesterday (Thursday) after allegedly firing a gun into a parked vehicle near Courthouse in late December.
The suspect is accused of firing “several shots” around 12:40 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 27, near the intersection of 13th Street N. and N. Taft Street in the Radnor/Fort Myer Heights neighborhood. Someone inside the car then returned fire and drove offf, according to police.
Arlington County police are investigating two separate incidents this week in which ammunition was brought into a school.
The latest happened earlier today (Thursday) at Washington-Liberty High School. Police were called after a student was found to be in possession of ammo and a firearm magazine, according to scanner traffic.
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A high school student is facing several charges after allegedly attacking police amid anti-ICE walkouts Wednesday afternoon.
Hundreds of students peacefully participated in the planned walkouts at Arlington middle and high schools, protesting immigration enforcement and violence by federal agents.
Three men have been sentenced to prison over a conspiracy to steal hundreds of airbags across Northern Virginia.
Alexandria resident Adisorn Damrongchai and Chinese national Yuchen Zhang were found guilty of nabbing airbags in Virginia and selling them to a third conspirator, Severn, Md., resident Keith William Smith, beginning in August 2022.
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There was a large police presence along Army Navy Drive this afternoon due to a suspicious vehicle in a Pentagon parking lot.
A lone U-Haul truck was parked along a curb in the surface lot across from the Pentagon City mall, near an I-395 off-ramp.
Arlington County police are looking for four suspects in the early morning baseball bat beating of two men.
The incident happened early Sunday in the Pentagon City area, while “the two male victims were inside a residence with the two female suspects.”
A man who struck a police officer with his SUV in Crystal City and fled the scene will spend the next six months behind bars.
Anthony Aquice, 25, was sentenced last week to five years — though four-and-a-half years of that time is suspended, the Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office announced on Monday.
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Arlington County police are investigating an attempted bank robbery in Ballston.
The robbery was reported around 3:30 p.m. at the Wells Fargo Bank at 1011 N. Stafford Street, near the Ballston Metro station.