Police are investigating over a dozen break-ins at a parking garage in Penrose last night.
This morning (Thursday), the Arlington County Police Department found 19 vehicles that had been broken into overnight, according to a preliminary incident report
Arlington County police are investigating another series of car break-ins in the area of Washington Golf and Country Club.
It happened this past Friday morning, on the 3000 block of N. Glebe Road.
Eight shoplifting suspects were arrested in a Pentagon City operation as new police data shows Arlington retail crime is on the rise.
In a May 30 retail theft detail, the Arlington County Police Department arrested seven people on petit larceny charges and one person on a grand larceny charge. The arrests resulted in the recovery of more than $6,000 in stolen merchandise, police said in a press release.
Someone broke into nearly a half dozen cars parked at an exclusive Arlington country club in the middle of the day.
That’s according to scanner traffic and the latest Arlington County Police Department crime report.
Eight businesses in the Rosslyn and Courthouse areas are cleaning up after a series of early morning burglaries.
The break-ins happened early Thursday morning. Police say a group of 2-3 male suspects wearing all black, with their faces covered, smashed glass doors and windows in order to access the businesses and steal safes and cash drawers.
Motor vehicle thefts were down significantly in Arlington over the first four months of this year, and a trend of fewer carjackings has continued.
Total offenses, meanwhile, have held fairly steady.
A 23-year-old D.C. woman is facing several charges after an incident that prompted a sizable police response at the Pentagon City mall.
It happened Tuesday morning when an officer confronted a shoplifting suspect, who then allegedly tried to flee, leading to a foot pursuit and a struggle.
Arlington prosecutors have declined to pursue charges against a convenience store employee accused of slashing an alleged shoplifter with a knife.
The 24-year-old employee faced two misdemeanor charges stemming from the Dec. 16 incident, in which he allegedly pursued and confronted two men who left a 7-Eleven in Arlington Heights without paying for beer and other items.
A suspect is in custody after a gun was stolen from a Clarendon firearm store, prompting a manhunt.
Police were dispatched to Nova Armory at 2607 Wilson Blvd around 12:20 p.m. for a report of a man who ran off with an unloaded Glock handgun.
A D.C. man is facing several charges after the alleged theft of an electric bike in Crystal City.
Police were dispatched to the neighborhood shortly after 4:30 p.m. this past Thursday after a caller reported seeing a man stealing a locked e-bike and then walking away with it while an alarm sounded.
A man was hospitalized with serious injuries after he was found bleeding profusely Saturday night in Pentagon City.
The man was attacked with a glass bottle and a Taser by a man and a woman he knew, who then stole his wallet and phone, police said.
A man accused of robbing a postal carrier in Arlington before embarking on a series of mail thefts across the D.C. area has been arrested and is facing multiple charges.
Federal prosecutors believe that Ibrahim Emmanuel De La Cruz, 25, stole a universal key during the robbery and used it to improperly access nearly a dozen mailboxes across Virginia, D.C. and Maryland.
