Drizzle Fog/Mist 45°
Tag:

Fairfax County, VA

Police & Fire
No Charges For NJ Tractor Trailer Driver In Crash That Killed Woman, 40, In VA No Charges For NJ Tractor Trailer Driver In Crash That Killed Woman, 40, In VA
No Charges For NJ Tractor Trailer Driver In Crash That Killed Woman, 40, In VA Police have identified the driver of a vehicle who died in a crash last week on the Capital Beltway with a tractor trailer, whose operator will not be charged, they said. Nicole M. Lewis, 40, of Dumfries, was operating a 1998 Honda Accord slowly, partially  in the right shoulder and partially in the right travel lane around 12:20 a.m. Nov. 9 in Fairfax County, Virginia State Police said. She was struck by a tractor trailer from behind before both vehicles ran off the road and struck the Jersey wall, police said. It happened near milepost 175, where both vehicles came to rest in the lef…

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Murder Suspect Wanted After Woman's Body Found At VA Campsite Nabbed In Paterson: Cops Murder Suspect Wanted After Woman's Body Found At VA Campsite Nabbed In Paterson: Cops
Murder Suspect Wanted After Woman's Body Found At VA Campsite Nabbed In Paterson: Cops A man wanted for murder in Virginia was captured in New Jersey, authorities announced. Rami El Sayed was identified as a person of interest after 40-year-old Cara Abbruscato was found dead in a makeshift tent at Burke Lake Park on Ox Road on Saturday, Sept. 30, county police said. El Sayed was captured in Paterson, NJ, police announced on Monday, Oct. 2. Abbruscato, 40, had suffered trauma to her upper body. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue personnel pronounced her deceased on the scene. Police in early September said a woman with the same name had gone missing.  Update: Cara has been…

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
How NY Detective Realized Accused VA Attacker Was Also Officer's Wife's Attempted Rapist How NY Detective Realized Accused VA Attacker Was Also Officer's Wife's Attempted Rapist
How NY Detective Realized Accused VA Attacker Was Also Officer's Wife's Attempted Rapist The 42-year-old man arrested for an assault and string of indecent exposures in Virginia also carried out a similar attack on the wife of a police officer on Long Island last year, authorities said. It was Suffolk County Police Det. Tom Corso who made the connection that in both the October 2021 case in New York and the Aug. 26 case in Herndon, the assailant was wearing just a tank top when he approached his jogging victims from behind and tried to sexually assault them, FOX5 reports. Sure enough, Juan Rodriguez Alfaro was ultimately identified as the suspect in both incidents, th…

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
Politics
Trump DOJ Lawyer Forced To Stand Outside In Boxers During Humiliating Raid: CNN Trump DOJ Lawyer Forced To Stand Outside In Boxers During Humiliating Raid: CNN
Trump DOJ Lawyer Forced To Stand Outside In Boxers During Humiliating Raid: CNN Police forced a former Department of Justice lawyer for President Donald Trump to stand outside in his underwear while they raided his home last month, video obtained by CNN shows.  Wearing his underwear and a button down shirt, Jeffrey Clark asked agents at the door of his Fairfax County home if he could call his lawyer, put on pants or stand in his garage, the footage shows. “We’re gonna clear the house, and as soon as we clear the house, we’ll get you talking to your lawyer and we’ll get some pants on, okay?" one of the agents told him in the video. They did allow Clark to stand b…

SHARE

by Josh Lanier
Police & Fire
NJ 'Werewolf' Killer To Be Released From VA Mental Institution NJ 'Werewolf' Killer To Be Released From VA Mental Institution
NJ 'Werewolf' Killer To Be Released From VA Mental Institution A New Jersey man who thought he was killing a werewolf when he attacked an Alexandria store manager is set to be released from a mental institution soon, a report says.  Pankaj Bhasin, 37, killed Bradford Jackson, a stranger to him, in 2018. A year later, a Virginia court determined that Bhasin was legally insane at the time of the killing, the Washington Post reported at the time.  Doctors at the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute now say he's well enough to leave the facility after two years of treatment, and a judge has agreed to allow him a conditional release, NBC…

SHARE

by Josh Lanier
News
Amber Heard Found Guilty On All Defamation Charges Against Johnny Depp Amber Heard Found Guilty On All Defamation Charges Against Johnny Depp
Amber Heard Found Guilty On All Defamation Charges Against Johnny Depp A Fairfax County jury found Amber Heard guilty on all defamation charges against her ex-husband Johnny Depp on Wednesday, June 1.  The seven-person jury said Heard "acted with malice" when she made several defamatory statements about Depp in a Washington Post article in 2018 in which Heard described being a victim of domestic violence.  Depp had previously sued Heard for $50 million over the allegations and Heard countersued for $100 million. Depp was successfully able to prove that he did not abuse Heard despite her allegations.  "From the very beginning, I have the goal of bringing this…

SHARE

by David Cifarelli
News
How TikTok Is Refuting Amber Heard Claims In Johnny Depp Defamation Case How TikTok Is Refuting Amber Heard Claims In Johnny Depp Defamation Case
How TikTok Is Refuting Amber Heard Claims In Johnny Depp Defamation Case Once known as a place to share dancing skills, TikTok is helping to solve national cases and court trials — including actor Johnny Depp's defamation trial against his ex-wife and actress, Amber Heard. Evidence brought forth during last week's trial — taking place in Fairfax County, VA — by Heard’s legal team was debunked on the video-sharing app. Users were among the first to point out that a Milani Cosmetics makeup pallet used as evidence by Heard's legal team was not released until after the alleged abuse against her occurred. Milani later released a statement confirming that. One video…

SHARE

by Annie DeVoe
News
Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings
Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings A man sentenced to life in prison after strangling a single mother has been linked to two cold-case killings including one in Maryland and another in Virginia dating back to 1987, according to police. Charles Helem, 52, is serving life in prison at a supermax state prison for the 2002 murder of Patricia Bentley, a 37-year-old single mother from Chantilly, Virginia. He strangled Bentley with a phone cord and his hands, according to officials. This week, Helem was indicted for murder by a Fairfax County grand jury in the 1987 murder of another woman and is also suspected of killing a third wo…

SHARE

by Joe Gomez
News
Son Of Infamous Bergen County Burglar Charged With ID Theft, Unemployment Fraud Son Of Infamous Bergen County Burglar Charged With ID Theft, Unemployment Fraud
Son Of Infamous Bergen County Burglar Charged With ID Theft, Unemployment Fraud The son of an infamous Bergen County burglar was charged with unemployment fraud after a shoplifting bust in Virginia, authorities said. A judge ordered Daniel Gatson Jr., 24, of Ridgefield released this week after he was booked into the Bergen County Jail hours earlier, records show. Gatson assumed another identity to open bank accounts, then applied for and received unemployment benefits from the state of New Jersey, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said, without specifying the amount. Detectives in Fairfax County, VA discovered this while investigating a shoplifting, the prose…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco