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Officers assigned to the Motor Carrier Safety unit conducted inspections in the area of Lee Highway and Gallows Road on Wednesday, April 28, from 7 a.m. until 11 a.m. This location was selected in an effort to bring attention to the importance of motor carrier safety. Properly secured loads and up-to-date equipment and licensure are [...]
The Fairfax County Park Authority Board approved the appointment of Jennifer D. Aument to the Fairfax County Park Foundation Board at their March 24, 2010 meeting. Aument, who is the vice president of Corporate Relations at Transurban (USA) Inc, joins seven others on the Foundation Board. Among many other initiatives, the Foundation is currently raising [...]
Three teenage boys were robbed while walking in the area of Glenbrook Road and Prince William Drive on Saturday, April 24. The victims, ages 14, 14, and 15, were approached by three other teenage boys around 10 p.m. One of them displayed a handgun and grabbed a backpack from one of the victims. He and [...]
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department fire investigators charged Gilberto Amaya-Quezada, 53, of 6000 block of Bellview Drive, Falls Church, with intentionally setting a small fire in the interior of an apartment, Saturday, April 24, 2010. Amaya-Quezada was charged with the burning of an occupied dwelling (Virginia Code 18.2-77, Class 4 Felony). He set fire [...]
On Friday, April 23 around 3:40 p.m., a 74-year-old driver of a 2009 Toyota Scion was westbound on Sunset Hills Road. Prior to the Reston Parkway, the driver may have suffered a medical emergency when she ran off the roadway and onto the sidewalk. The vehicle then reentered the westbound lanes, crossed the median, crossed [...]
Everyone has about 60 pounds of items in their homes they don’t use — and, beginning April 1, the public may take it to the City of Fairfax Recycling Center. The City of Fairfax provides two bins at the 24-hour Recycling Center that accept clothing, shoes, books and other small household items. The blue bins, [...]
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Police are searching for two men, confirmed gang members, in connection with two strong-armed Springfield-area robberies. Carlos Lenin, 22, and Jorge Cruz-Pax, 22, allegedly assaulted and robbed a 19-year-old man as he walked home near the intersection of Backlick Road and Hechinger Drive on Saturday, April 10 around 11:30 p.m. The victim suffered non life-threatening [...]
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Patrol Officers from the Mason District police station in Fairfax County provided detectives with information about an armed robber. Acting on that information, a joint investigation between the Fairfax County and the Arlington County Police Departments’ robbery squads has resulted in the identification and apprehension of Eugene Anthony Thomas, 24, of no fixed address. Detectives [...]
The Chantilly High Economics Team took top honors at the Fed Challenge competition held recently in Baltimore, posting their second consecutive victory over teams from public and private schools from the mid-Atlantic region. Students are required to create a 15-minute presentation on monetary policy, present it to economists from the Federal Reserve, and display their [...]
128th Recruit Firefighter Graduation Who: Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department What: 128th Recruit Firefighter Graduation Where: Fairfax County Government Center Auditorium 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, VA 22035 When: Friday, April 23, 2010, 7 p.m. Since early August 2009, 19 recruit firefighters from the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department have been training to [...]