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  • UPDATE: Three Arrested as Search Continues for Missing Teen in Gang-Related Abduction

      Jose Vincent-Sosa                     Edwin Dinarte Moreno Mount Vernon Police District – Three people are now under arrest in connection with the disappearance of 18-year-old Miguel Angel Ruiz Carrillo. Jose Vincent-Sosa, 20 and Edwin Dinarte Moreno, 18, both of Alexandria, along with a female juvenile were taken into custody; each charged with abduction and gang participation. It…

  • Detectives Investigating Stranger Abduction/Sexual Assault of Young Girl

    Mount Vernon Police District – An investigation is underway after a 5-year-old girl was abducted and sexually assaulted by a stranger in the 6700 block of Tower Drive in the Fairfax County section of Alexandria. It happened around 5 yesterday evening. Initially a family member noticed the child was missing, and she resurfaced a short time…

  • Detectives Searching for Endangered Missing Teen

    Mount Vernon Police District – Detectives are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing teen, now believed to be endangered. 18-year-old Miguel Angel Ruiz Carrillo, of the 4200 block of Buckman Road, was last seen in the evening hours of Thursday, August 3. When he didn’t return to his home by the next…

  • Former Principal Charged with Assaulting Student

    Mount Vernon Police District – We have charged 53-year-old Terrence Eugene Yarborough of Woodbridge, with assault and battery following an incident that occurred at Carl Sandburg Middle School in Alexandria.  On April 4 of this year, a female student who was 12 years old at the time, was in the cafeteria with a few friends. The principal, Terrence…

  • Pedestrian Struck, Killed Crossing Richmond Highway

    Mount Vernon Police District – A 22-year-old man was hit and killed by a car around 1:15 in the morning on July 2 while attempting to cross Richmond Highway. Gerson Rodriguez Cruz, of Alexandria, died at the scene. He was hit by a 2016 Mercedes sedan traveling southbound on Richmond Highway just after Belvoir Drive.…

  • Pursuit of Stolen Car Ends in Crash

    Mount Vernon Police District – An investigation is underway after the pursuit of a stolen car ends with a crash. Shortly before 10 p.m. yesterday, an officer attempted to stop a stolen car in the area of Richmond Highway and Reddick Avenue, in Alexandria. The driver took off northbound on Richmond Highway and a pursuit…

  • Fatal Motorcycle Crash on Richmond Highway

    Fatal Motorcycle Crash on Richmond Highway

    Mount Vernon Police District – Crash Reconstruction detectives are investigating a fatal crash that occurred around 4:30 p.m. on Friday, June 9. Officers were called to the intersection of Holly Hill Road and Richmond Highway for a report of a motorcycle that collided with a truck. An investigation determined that Kwaune Devante Marshall, 25, of…

  • Update: Surveillance Video Connects Suspects Involved in Two Robberies

    Update: Surveillance Video Connects Suspects Involved in Two Robberies

    McLean/Mount Vernon Police Districts – Detectives have connected two robberies that occurred within hours of each other on Saturday, May 6. The first one took place around 8:30 p.m. at Cigar World, in the 8100 block of Leesburg Pike, in the Vienna area. Two men entered the store and approached an employee, a 25-year-old woman.…

  • Help Us Identify this Robbery Suspect

    Help Us Identify this Robbery Suspect

    Help Us Identify this Robbery Suspect Mount Vernon Police District – Detectives from the Major Crimes Division are investigating a commercial robbery that occurred at the Exxon gas station located in the 6900 block of South Kings Highway, Saturday, May 6. At approximately 10:20 p.m., a man knocked on the locked door and the clerk…

  • UPDATE: Barricade in Fort Hunt Area Ends Successfully

    Mount Vernon Police District – Shortly after 1 p.m., the children exited the home safely and we took them into protective custody. The man remained uncooperative and began to go in and out of the house; not following officers’ commands. The last time he came out of the house, an officer deployed a TASER to…

  • Barricade Continues in Fort Hunt Area

    Barricade Continues in Fort Hunt Area

      Mount Vernon Police District – Around 8 last evening, we received a call from a friend of a man who lives in a home in the 8600 block of Thomas J. Stockton Parkway. The caller said his friend appeared to be experiencing a mental crisis and that he was concerned for his welfare. We…

  • Detectives Need Your Help Finding These Valued Possessions from Bias-Related Burglary

    Mount Vernon Police District – Detectives release photographs of some of the stolen jewelry from the burglary that occurred over the weekend. On March 27, a maintenance worker reported that he found an apartment in disarray and an anti-Muslim statement was written on the wall. The victims had their Quran destroyed and numerous items of jewelry…