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Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
View MoreFairfax County police find missing McLean teen safe
Fairfax County police reported 16-year-old Willow Higdon missing and endangered after she was last seen Sept. 4 on Chain Bridge Road in McLean; the department later confirmed she was found safe.
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View MoreThree die in I-66 crash near McLean's I-495 interchange
Three people died Sept. 6 when their Honda Pilot rear-ended a truck carrying oxygen tanks on the I-66 Express Lanes near the I-495 interchange in Dunn Loring, and two other drivers involved were charged with reckless driving.
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View MoreFairfax County police launch e-bike safety push on W&OD Trail
Fairfax County police are stationing officers along the W&OD Trail on Sept. 4 to educate riders on e-bike rules, part of a regional safety campaign following a summer of crashes and rising complaints about unsafe behavior on the 45-mile trail that runs through McLean.
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View MoreFCPS bus attendant charged with striking student four times
Sung Soo Bang, 73, a Fairfax County Public Schools bus attendant from Burke, faces four assault and battery charges after City of Fairfax police said video showed him striking a student in the head on multiple occasions during a July summer program bus route.
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View MoreD.C. man faces federal fentanyl, cocaine charges after McLean buys
A Washington, D.C., man faces federal drug charges after an FBI investigation that included two undercover narcotics purchases in McLean in fall 2025, with a search of his residence yielding suspected fentanyl, cocaine and distribution equipment.
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View MoreComplaint alleges love-triangle motive in Great Falls killing
A Fairfax County criminal complaint alleges Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos told a witness he planned to kill Carmen Lizet Puch after she sent screenshots of their affair to his girlfriend, adding new motive and premeditation details to the Aug. 17 Great Falls trail stabbing case.
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View MoreFederal drug charge filed after man drives to CIA gate in McLean
Zachary Christopher Brown was charged with federal drug possession after driving a Ford Escape past restricted-area signs to the CIA headquarters gate in McLean, where officers found suspected methamphetamine, knives, a rifle scope and a gun safe.
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View MoreFairfax insanity case tests Virginia's unescorted pass law
A psychiatric patient found not guilty by reason of insanity fled the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute to Tajikistan on a 48-hour unescorted pass in July, prompting victim families to call for court oversight of community passes even as state Sen. Dave Marsden says the law is unlikely to change.
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View MoreFairfax County firefighters return from Colombia quake mission
Ten Fairfax County firefighters from Virginia Task Force 1 returned to Chantilly on Aug. 20 after 10 days assessing earthquake-damaged buildings in Colombia, where a 7.4-magnitude quake killed more than 300 people.
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View MoreSuspect confessed to planning Great Falls park killing, police say
Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, confessed to planning and carrying out the fatal stabbing of coworker Carmen Lizet Puch at Difficult Run Park in Great Falls, arming himself with a knife, gloves and gasoline before the Aug. 17 killing, Fairfax County police said.
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View MoreMan, 19, charged with murder of coworker at Great Falls park
Fairfax County police charged Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his coworker Carmen Lizet Puch, 42, at Difficult Run Park in Great Falls, alleging he brought a knife and gasoline to the scene.
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View MorePolice arrest 19-year-old in Difficult Run Park killing
Fairfax County detectives arrested Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, on Wednesday in connection with the death of Carmen Lizet Puch, 42, found with fatal injuries in the Difficult Run Park parking lot on Georgetown Pike two days earlier.