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Victim Who Withdrew $10K From VA Bank Was Followed By Trio Who Stole It, Police Say Victim Who Withdrew $10K From VA Bank Was Followed By Trio Who Stole It, Police Say
Victim Who Withdrew $10K From VA Bank Was Followed By Trio Who Stole It, Police Say Warrants have been issued for a pair from New Jersey and New York who police said targeted a victim who withdrew a large amount of cash at a Virginia bank. Pedro Bernal Montoya, 43, of New Jersey, and Antonio Ramos Acevedo, 33, of New York, watched as the victim took out $10,000 from a Springfield, VA bank on March 21, at 3:13 p.m., Fairfax County police said. Police did not say where in NJ or NY the men were from. They then followed the victim to a shopping center, where they broke into their vehicle and stole the money, police said. Detectives obtained warrants for Montoya and Acevedo&nb…

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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…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Virginia 'Throuple' Dead In Murder Suicide Pact, Police Say Virginia 'Throuple' Dead In Murder Suicide Pact, Police Say
Virginia 'Throuple' Dead In Murder Suicide Pact, Police Say "To everyone. To all my friends. I love you. I need to go." That was the cryptic note that 26-year-old Jose Gale Aliaga posted to Facebook before police say he killed two women and then turned the gun on himself in their shared Fairfax apartment earlier this week. Social media posts seem to imply that Aliaga, Angelica McIntosh, 26, and Anne Lollar, 31, were involved in a polyamorous relationship. The three had agreed to a suicide pact before police found their bodies with gunshot wounds in a locked bedroom of a shared Mazarin Place apartment in Fairfax on Tuesday, June 7, police said.  In…

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by Josh Lanier
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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…

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by Joe Gomez