Sully Police District – Detectives have identified the homicide victim found in the 6500 block of Colchester Road this morning as 30-year-old Michael Cooker, of Herndon. At 6:49, officers responded to the area after a passerby saw a man lying on the side of the road. Medics arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene.…
Sully Police District – Detectives from our Crash Reconstruction Unit believe speed may be to blame for a fatal motorcycle crash. The driver, 33-year-old Reginald Blake Jr., from Leesburg, died Friday evening after losing control of his motorcycle at Lee Jackson Memorial Highway and Pleasant Valley Road. The driver lost control after doing a wheelie,…
Sully Police District – Homicide detectives identified and arrested a suspect in the murder of 17-year-old Matthew Ortega on February 14 in Centreville. Around 1 this afternoon, 18-year-old Uriel Josaphat Espinosa Cruz, of Fairfax, was arrested for murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He is being held…
SULLY DISTRICT – A Centreville man has received treatment for severe burns after officers located him following an incident at a local Shell Gas Station. Officers from the Sully District Station in Chantilly were called to the Shell Gas Station, 5501 Union Mill Road in Clifton, on February 25, following the report of a man…
Sully Police District – Our homicide detectives were able to confirm the identity of the body found in Centreville on Wednesday as 17-year-old Matthew Ortega, during an autopsy at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The autopsy results are pending. Due to the ongoing criminal investigation, at this point we are only confirming Ortega…
Sully Police District – Homicide detectives have tentatively identified the victim in yesterday’s homicide as a juvenile. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy. Detectives are working closely with them to confirm his identity. With the new state law, we are prohibited from providing almost any information at all unless parental consent…
Sully Police District – Detectives are asking for the public’s help identifying the homicide victim found in the 13000 block of Jeb Stuart Square in Centreville. At 5:17 this morning, officers responded to the area after a delivery driver saw a body lying in the street with upper body trauma. Medics arrived and pronounced him…
Sully District – A Manassas man is facing several charges for sending sexually explicit messages to a minor. Detectives from the Child Exploitation Unit arrested 26-year-old Joshua Schroeder on Saturday morning around 10 for three counts of solicitation of a minor and one count of attempted contributing to the delinquency of a minor. On February 5,…
Sully Police Station – A Prince George’s County man is facing multiple felony charges this afternoon following a crime spree and serious collision in the Centreville area. Brandon Stefon Vinson, 28, of Adelphi remains in the hospital today, as does a woman and five children who were also hospitalized after last night’s crash. The suspect…
Sully Police District – Several people, including one of our own officers, sustained non-life-threatening injuries in two separate crashes at the same location this morning. Officers initially responded to the southbound lanes of Route 28 near I-66 in Centreville around 4:15 a.m. for a crash involving a box truck, dump truck and a sedan. The…
Sully Police District – Detectives have charged Vidal Flores Cuchillas with murder after last weekend’s deadly bar fight outside Velocity 5 in Centreville. Flores Cuchillas, 38, was originally charged with malicious wounding on November 4. He has been held at the Adult Detention Center without bond since the incident, but today he was…
Sully Police District – Detectives investigating the murder of 27-year-old Harold Garnett after a bar fight at Velocity 5 Saturday morning, now believe there was a second assault on another victim during the fight. A preliminary investigation revealed the man in custody, 38-year-old Vidal Flores Cuchillas, along with two other unidentified suspects, also assaulted a…
