West Springfield Police District – Detectives are investigating after two men were treated for gunshot wounds Wednesday evening. Officers first responded shortly after 6 last night to the 5200 block of Queensberry Avenue in Springfield for a person who had been shot. Officers found Johnathan Velasquez Romero, 19, of Springfield with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his hand. Information was falsely reported to
Read moreWest Springfield Police District – This past April, a 56-year-old Annandale music teacher was arrested and charged with eight felony counts of indecent liberties by a custodian for sexually abusing two former students. Detectives from our Major Crimes Bureau began their investigation in May 2018 when a juvenile disclosed being inappropriately touched by Jeffery Cummins over a period of several
Read moreWest Springfield Police District- Detectives are asking for the public’s help identifying a pair of suspects who target purses left in parked cars. The pair are believed to have committed similar crimes up and down the East Coast. The couple tend to use the stolen credit cards at Apple, Best Buy and Target stores. Detectives are asking anyone who recognizes
Read moreWest Springfield Police District- Detectives are asking for the public’s help identifying a pair responsible for a larceny at the Sally Beauty Supply Store in the 6000 block of Burke Commons Road in Burke earlier this month. The woman entered the store distracting the clerk and then signaled to a man who was waiting outside. The man quickly entered the
Read moreWest Springfield Police District – A Fairfax County man is in custody for a 1999 abduction of a woman in the Burke area. This morning, detectives from our Fugitive Taskforce with the assistance of the Hyattsville City Police Department arrested 67-year-old Allen Lewis Buracker at his workplace in the 2900 block of Belcrest Drive in Hyattsville, Maryland. Detectives from our
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