Crime & Safety

Crime Rewind: Falls Church Girl, 13, Reports Sexual Assault

Roundup of top crime news of the week from inside the Beltway.

Arlington

  • A television and bed sheets were among the items reported stolen from a home recently.

Arlington Police: Real Estate Agent Accused of Stealing Woman's Clothes

  • A 60-year-old real estate agent is accused of taking woman’s clothing from an Arlington home.

Del Ray  
Wounded Officer Laboy Begins Therapy

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  • Alexandria Police Officer Peter Laboy began undergoing occupational therapy Wednesday in a Washington hospital, one week after being shot in the head outside Lyles Crouch Traditional Academy in Old Town.

Ammunition Seized from Home of Police Shooting Suspect

  • Officers seized bullets, a magazine and electronics from the Woodbridge home of Kashif Bashir, who is accused of shooting Alexandria Police Officer Peter Laboy.

Falls Church  
Pedestrian Struck and Killed Near Dunn Loring Metro

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  • Fairfax County police still working to identify the victim in the Wednesday night incident.

Red Light Cameras Could Return to Fairfax County

  • Fairfax County Supervisors directed staff Tuesday to examine costs and benefits of a launching another red light camera program, which reduced violations by 45 percent during its first run a decade ago.

Police Log: Two Men Charged With Urinating in Public

  • Falls Church City Police charged two men with urinating in public in separate incidents.
  • Falls Church City Police are looking for two men who allegedly robbed and beat a man on Feb. 27.

Snow Plow Catches Fire in Falls Church

  • No one was injured in a fire that gutted a snowplow in Falls Church on Wednesday.

Police: Two Teens Charged With Raping Falls Church Girl in Mall Parking Lot

  • Police have charged two teens, including a 17-year-old Woodbridge male, with rape after a young girl, 13, reported being sexually assaulted in a car in the Potomac Mills Mall parking lot, Prince William County Police spokesperson Jonathan Perok said. 

Georgetown 

  • Officers from the Second District Metropolitan Police Department earned high praise from their peers and chief at a recent award ceremony.


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