An Alexandria man will spend the next decade in federal prison for the sale of more than 4,000 fentanyl-laced pills.
Alhagi Gassim Conteh, 30, was sentenced yesterday (Tuesday) to 10 years behind bars in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia — the mandatory minimum sentence for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, according to federal law.
A Del Ray man who shot his ex in the leg with a 20-gauge shotgun was found not guilty of aggravated malicious wounding today.
The jury returned a not guilty verdict today (Thursday) in the case Jovan Saunders, who shot the mother of his child in the leg with a shotgun at his home on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 20, 2023. He was also found not guilty of use of a firearm in commission of a malicious wounding.
Francis Deonte Rose was sentenced today to 58 years in prison for the 2022 shooting deaths of two construction workers in the West End.
A jury found Rose guilty in May of killing Adrian Dejesus Rivera Guzman, 48, and his stepson, 24-year-old Juan Carlos Anaya Hernandez, on the morning of July 16, 2022 in the northern section of the former Assembly Alexandria apartment complex in the 200 block of Century Place.
Circuit Court Judge David S. Schell, who is also set to rule on Alexandria’s Zoning for Housing/Housing for All litigation, overturned neighboring Arlington’s Missing Middle zoning changes today.
The Missing Middle and Zoning for Housing reforms were both substantial zoning reforms that, among other changes, eliminated single-family-only zoning. As a group of Alexandrians have been filing suit against the City, locals have been watching the Arlington case as a weather vane.
Alexandria residents fighting the city’s massive Zoning for Housing/Housing for All overhaul won a battle in court today, as Judge David S. Schell ruled their case has standing and can go to trial.
The plaintiffs, all Old Town residents, have been fighting to reverse the zoning changes since they were approved by City Council in Dec. 2023. While initial efforts were dismissed in court, their amended filing specified how their individual properties would be harmed as a result.
More details have been released regarding an alleged sexual battery last month that put a Lyft driver behind bars without bond.
The victim told police that she was drunk when Lyft driver Ahmad Reshad Nasseri picked her up in his red Toyota Highlander outside a D.C. restaurant on Friday, July 19, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.
A posse of retired deputies and law enforcement personnel have been assembled by Alexandria Sheriff Sean Casey to contend with a staffing shortage.
It didn’t take long for retired Deputy Kevin Brown to un-retire… Again.
Two men are being held without bond on multiple charges after allegedly fleeing police, crashing into a light pole and being chased on foot near Alexandria City High School.
The incident occurred at around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 9. An Alexandria Police Department officer tried to pull over a 2004 maroon-colored Chevy Impala whose driver had a suspended license, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.
A 40-year-old Alexandria woman was indicted on child abuse and neglect charges Wednesday for allegedly abusing a three-year-old and six-month-old child in her care last year.
Rhonda Holland was arrested on July 1 and is being held without bond. She was indicted for two felonies — aggravated malicious wounding and child abuse/neglect.
A 34-year-old D.C. man was held without bond in the Alexandria jail for 18 days last month for allegedly dropping off a friend at the jail in a stolen car with an illegal firearm.
On June 3, the Alexandria Police Department used a GPS to find a red Ford Mustang with North Carolina license plates parked near the front gate of the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center (2001 Mill Road), according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.
The suspect in an Arlandria shooting told the Alexandria Police Department that he was acting out of retaliation after the man he allegedly shot grabbed his girlfriend’s arm, according to recently released court records.
Jason Allen Johnson, Jr., 21, is being held without bond after allegedly shooting a man in the knee near an apartment complex in the 3800 block of Executive Avenue on the afternoon of Sunday, May 19.
