UPDATE: No Additional Cougar Sightings Animal Control Officers and personnel from the Animal Services Division have been in the Mount Vernon Road area throughout the day. They have neither received any additional reports nor observed any additional signs of large cat activity. They have reviewed footage from surveillance cameras that were placed in the area overnight and there was nothing
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Read moreWest Springfield Police District – Police remind residents that commuter parking lots are to be used only for the purposes of commuter parking (and authorized user) purposes. Residents in the Saratoga neighborhood of West Springfield have reported that an auto club has been using the Barta Road commuter lot in the late evening hours in recent weeks. Police have been,
Read moreMason Police District – Police responded a report of a carjacking on Thursday, September 11 at around 11 p.m. in the 7100 block of Kenfig Place, Falls Church. A 26- year-old woman was texting and listening to her radio when a man approached her car window, opened her door and demanded she get out. She complied. The man grabbed her
Read morePrecautions Being Taken Over the past 48 hours, Fairfax County Animal Control has received two reports of early-morning sightings of a large cat, possibly a cougar, near Riverside Elementary School on Old Mount Vernon Road in Alexandria. Animal Control Officers searched the area of the reported sightings but found no evidence confirming the presence of the animal. The cat was
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