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DWI Driver In Fatal Crash Slapped With Additional Charges: Fairfax PD DWI Driver In Fatal Crash Slapped With Additional Charges: Fairfax PD
DWI Driver In Fatal Crash Slapped With Additional Charges: Fairfax PD A driver charged in a fatal crash in July is facing additional charges, Fairfax County police said. Benjamin Lopez Encinas, 33, of Woodbridge, was initially charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, but as of Monday, Aug. 14, faces  aggravated DWI manslaughter and felony hit and run.  Detectives served Encinas warrants on Sunday, Aug. 13. He's being held without bond. Encinas was in a 2010 BMW when he failed to stop at a stop sign on Columbia Pike in Bailey's Crossroads around 2:15 a.m. on July 8, Fairfax County police said. He struck Luis Fernando Jime…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Drunken Driver Kills Pedestrian, 26, In VA Hit-Run Crash: Police Drunken Driver Kills Pedestrian, 26, In VA Hit-Run Crash: Police
Drunken Driver Kills Pedestrian, 26, In VA Hit-Run Crash: Police Police have released the identities of both the 33-year-old suspect and 26-year-old pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run crash overnight in Fairfax County. Benjamin Lopez Encinas, of Woodbridge, was in a 2010 BMW when he failed to stop at a stop sign on Columbia Pike in Bailey's Crossroads around 2:15 a.m., Fairfax County police said. He struck Luis Fernando Jimenez Rodriguez, a pedestrian, near Lincolnia Road, police said. Mason Police District- Detectives from our Crash Reconstruction Unit continue to investigate a fatal pedestrian crash that occurred at 2:13 a.m. on Columbia Pike and Powe…

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by Cecilia Levine
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One Injured During Undercover Officer-Involved Shooting During Attempted Arrest In Virginia One Injured During Undercover Officer-Involved Shooting During Attempted Arrest In Virginia
One Injured During Undercover Officer-Involved Shooting During Attempted Arrest In Virginia One suspect was hospitalized by an undercover detective in Maryland who was involved in an officer-involved shooting during a drug investigation in Fairfax County, officials said. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said that undercover officers on patrol in the area of Arlington Boulevard and Patrick Henry Drive in the Mason Police District were conducting a drug investigation when they identified some suspects implicated in the case. The investigation, Davis said, led undercover narcotics officers to identify a group of people sitting in a car who were accused of allegedly illegally d…

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by Zak Failla