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  • Speed a Factor in Fatal Motorcycle Crash

    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,…

  • UPDATE: 18-Year-Old Arrested in Centreville Homicide

    UPDATE: 18-Year-Old Arrested in Centreville Homicide

        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…

  • Officers Follow Leads To Assist Burn Victim

    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…

  • Homicide Victim Identified as 17-year-old from Centreville

    Homicide Victim Identified as 17-year-old from Centreville

    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…

  • Homicide Detectives Tentatively Identify Body Found in Centreville

    Homicide Detectives Tentatively Identify Body Found in Centreville

    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…

  • Detectives Asking for the Public’s Help to Identify a Homicide Victim

    Detectives Asking for the Public’s Help to Identify a Homicide Victim

    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…

  • Sports Coach Arrested in Chantilly for Sex Offenses

    Sports Coach Arrested in Chantilly for Sex Offenses

    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,…

  • Major Traffic Delays After Dump Truck Traps Driver and Officer Hit While Directing Traffic

    Major Traffic Delays After Dump Truck Traps Driver and Officer Hit While Directing Traffic

    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…

  • UPDATE: Man Charged with Homicide After Bar Fight

    UPDATE: Man Charged with Homicide After Bar Fight

        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…