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Teen Charged With False Reporting Following Swatting Incident In Loudoun County: Police Teen Charged With False Reporting Following Swatting Incident In Loudoun County: Police
Teen Charged With False Reporting Following Swatting Incident In Loudoun County: Police An 18-year-old has been identified and charged as the person responsible for a reported swatting incident at a Loudoun County Safeway earlier this summer, police say. Leesburg resident Caleb Wolfe, has been charged with false emergency communication to emergency personnel - a misdemeanor - stemming from a false report of an armed robbery in July. At around 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 13, police say that the Leesburg Police Department Emergency Communications Center received a report of a robbery at the grocery store on South King Street involving two people armed with knives who armed a m…

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by Zak Failla
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$120K In Medications Stolen By New York Trio Arrested In Fairfax County, Police Say $120K In Medications Stolen By New York Trio Arrested In Fairfax County, Police Say
$120K In Medications Stolen By New York Trio Arrested In Fairfax County, Police Say Three New Yorkers have been arrested in a spree of over-the-counter medication thefts totaling $120,000 in Fairfax County, authorities said. In February, detectives with the Fairfax County Police Department a tip that an organized retail theft crew was targeting businesses that sold over-the-counter medications in the area. The crew was implicated in thefts totaling over $120,000 dating back to October 2022. Following a thorough investigation, detectives learned the crew had returned to Fairfax County and on May 18, found the trio at the Burke Centre Parkway Safeway store, county police sai…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Newly-Minted Millionaire: Burke Construction Worker Buys $1M Powerball Ticket In Alexandria Newly-Minted Millionaire: Burke Construction Worker Buys $1M Powerball Ticket In Alexandria
Newly-Minted Millionaire: Burke Construction Worker Buys $1M Powerball Ticket In Alexandria When Nicholas Perez of Burke bought a ticket for the April 1 Powerball drawing, the jackpot stood at a jaw-dropping $1 billion.  He bought his ticket at Safeway at 8646 Richmond Highway in Alexandria. First, the bad news: He didn’t hit the jackpot, lottery officials said. The good news: His ticket matched the first five winning numbers to win Powerball’s $1 million second-tier prize. The ticket was one of six in the nation to match the first five numbers and the only one in Virginia. The winning numbers for the April 1 Powerball drawing were 19-24-40-42-56, and the Powerball numbe…

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by Cecilia Levine