CRIME & SAFETY

DALE CITY, Va. - A deadly shooting in a "quiet" Woodbridge neighborhood is currently under investigation. Prince William County police reported four men were shot Friday afternoon, and two of them have succumbed to their injuries and died. The other two victims, police said, are undergoing medical treatment in a local hospital.

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Police officers were on the scene of a quadruple shooting that took place in the Woodbridge area Friday afternoon. Two men died in the shooting. Medics took two other men to the hospital. The Prince William County Police Department tweeted about...

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — A month after a crash that led to the death of a pickup truck passenger, police said they were trying to find the driver of the truck, who, it turns out, shouldn’t have been behind the wheel. The Prince William County Police Department said Jeffrey Wayne Holman, […]

Police are looking for a 55-year-old Woodbridge man wanted in connection with a crash in Lake Ridge that killed a Winchester man. The wreck happened about 11:15 p.m. on April 29 at the intersection of Old Bridge Road and Colby Drive when the driver of a 2011 Ford F-150 truck failed to stop at a red light and struck a 2020 Kia Sorento, police said.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. - A shooting inside a house in Woodbridge is currently under investigation. Prince William County police reported four adults were shot Friday afternoon, and the person who pulled the trigger is still on the loose. Officers have been at the scene in the 14700 block of Birchdale Avenue...

Four people were shot in a home in the Woodbridge area of Prince William County Friday afternoon, according to police.

ARLINGTON, Va. (WJLA) — A man is in police custody after authorities say he broke into an Arlington County, Virginia police cruiser using a shovel Friday morning. According to their preliminary investigation, Arlington County Police say the suspect forced entry into an off-duty officer’s parked police vehicle using a shovel and removed a secured rifle and other items.

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Crews worked early Sunday morning to put out a fire that involved a number of boats a Columbia Island Marina. DC Fire and EMS tweeted that it was at the marina, located off of George Washington Memorial Parkway near the Pentagon, to help Arlington County Fire Department. Members […]

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A man allegedly assaulted an 85-year-old outside of a Woodbridge business Tuesday and now officers are asking for the public's help locating him. Officers with the Prince William County Police Department responded to the Shell service station, located on Dale Boulevard, around 10:15 a.m....

A Belle Haven man pleaded guilty to malicious maiming Thursday in Accomack Circuit Court in connection with an incident in which his former girlfriend was injured in March of 2021. Forty-three-year-old Jeffery Joseph Alther, a construction worker, who lives on Shields Bridge Road, entered the plea in a bargaining agreement...

A 21-year-old woman from Stafford, Virginia was arrested for DUI after crashing her Nissan Altima in a wooded area near Garrisonville Road and Shenandoah Lane. Deputy K.L. Steffenhagen responded to the overturned vehicle accident and found a pathway of crushed brush and foliage leading to the car.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Police released body camera footage Thursday from an incident in May in which an officer struggled with a man in a McDonald’s parking lot in the Alexandria area. Police opened fire during the incident, and the man, whom investigators said attacked the officer, died. “In my opinion, his […]

ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Alexandria Police Department has recently charged Jaquan Royal, a 27-year-old resident of Prince George’s County, Maryland, in connection with two local bank robberies. Royal is accused of the March 23, 2023, robbery in the 3500 block of Mount Vernon Avenue, and the April 3, 2023, robbery in the 400 block of John Carlyle Street. He is currently being held at an adult detention center in another jurisdiction. No injuries were reported in either incident. The Alexandria Police Department is encouraging anyone with information to contact Detective Brattelli at (703) 746-6699, or via email at john.brattelli@alexandriava.gov. The post Alexandria Police Charge Man with Two Bank Robberies appeared first on Shore News Network.

WASHINGTON - Four people have been charged in the death of a 33-year-old Alexandria woman who was found with trauma to the upper body and a gunshot wound in the parking lot of a hospital last month. On April 13, Brenda Ochoa Guerrero was found in the passenger seat of...

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Police said a person died Sunday after after he and another man got into an argument at an apartment complex in the Woodbridge area and the fight ended in gunfire. The Prince William County Department said the person who died was...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Police said four people face charges in connection to the death of a woman whose body was in a car in the Alexandria area. The Fairfax County Police Department said someone found Brenda Ochoa Guerrero, 33, unconscious in a car in the parking lot of Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, located at 8033 Holland Road, on April 13.

For the third day in a row, drugs were mailed to an inmate in the Rappahannock Regional Jail, authorities said.Jail staff contacted a deputy, who turned over a letter around noon on Wednesday, May 24, the Stafford County Sheriffs Office said."In case there was any doubt, mailing drugs to inmat…

Alexandria Police say that no arrests were made or injuries reported after multiple shots were fired outside a West End hotel late last month. APD responded at around 9:30 a.m. to the 6200 block of Duke Street for a report of shots fired, and found two bullet casings in the middle of the parking lot, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A 73-year-old Virginia man is recovering from hip surgery after he says he was tackled to the ground by a driver following a road rage incident. The incident happened Saturday, May 20 at 1:20 p.m. on Route 50 in Falls Church, Virgina. John Magill says...

WALDORF, Md. – Sheriff Berry and the men and women of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office are saddened to announce the passing of retired K9 Denny. K9 Denny served the CCSO from 2011 until 2015, and was fiercely loyal to the end to his partner, Sergeant Colby Shaw.