Archive for 'Crime'
UPDATED: Victim in overnight shooting identified
City police have launched an investigation into an early morning fatal shooting involving an Arlington County sheriff’s deputy on the 100 block of Lynhaven Drive on Wednesday. Reports of a gunshot in the neighborhood adjacent to [...]
Suzi Laboy speaks out after grand jury indicts man accused of shooting her husband
By Melissa Quinn As police officer Peter Laboy continues along the long road to recovery, the man accused of leaving him gravely injured was indicted on multiple charges by a grand jury Monday. Kashif Bashir, 27, [...]
Indictments handed down against Bashir, Johnson
By Melissa Quinn A circuit court grand jury handed down indictments today against Kashif Bashir, the man who allegedly shot police officer Peter Laboy in February, and Marie M. Johnson, who investigators accuse of murdering Elmer [...]
UPDATED: Police find grievously injured men on Four Mile Road
Alexandria police officers found two Hispanic men suffering from life threatening injuries in a vehicle along the 500 block of Four Mile Road yesterday evening. Few other details surrounding the incident have been released, but officials [...]
Marathon tragedy: Local survivor hopes to thank man who aided her
By Derrick Perkins His name is Steve and he lives in Boston’s North End. He caught Monday’s Red Sox game. And he helped reunite a scared, dazed and distraught Leslie Malm with her family after the [...]
Laboy case headed to grand jury
By Melissa Quinn The case against Kashif Bashir — the man authorities believe shot police officer Peter Laboy — was sent to a grand jury Wednesday. Alexandria General District Court Judge Becky Moore heard testimony from [...]
Adding parking enforcement officers could net big bucks for city
By Melissa Quinn Increasing parking enforcement’s ranks by two officers likely will net hundreds of thousands of dollars in ticket fines for city coffers next year. The positions, created to “increase enforcement of parking infractions,” according [...]
Alexandria police: Serious crime dropped in 2012
By Derrick Perkins As expected, local law enforcement officials announced a significant drop in most serious crimes last year, the lowest on record since 1966. Instances of murder, rape, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft [...]
Local group prods police officials on Taft Sellers’ death
By Derrick Perkins Former Washington police detective Nicholas Beltrante believes local authorities made a mistake rejecting his calls to bring in outsiders to review the shooting death of Taft Sellers. Beltrante is executive director of the [...]
City officials clear Redflex of any wrongdoing in Alexandria
By Derrick Perkins City officials are reviewing their relationship with embattled red-light camera operator Redflex Traffic Systems but maintain the company did not engage in bribery in Alexandria. Australian-based Redflex, which runs Alexandria’s red-light cameras, is [...]
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South Peyton Street hostel garners city council's support
Once again City Council has has ignored residents and issued another s
Editorial: Innovative hostel proposal is no slam dunk
I can't say if a hostel will be a success in Alexandria - although it
Alexandria successfully courts National Science Foundation
News article about NSF move to Alexandria
Hostel hostility
Neighborhood residents and the daycare patrons are not operating under
The bicyclist as a scofflaw is a common misperception
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