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No injuries were reported after multiple gunshots were reported in Arlandria on Thursday night.

A group of minors told ALXnow that they were on on the front steps of an apartment building in the 3900 block of Bruce Street when, at around 9:15 p;.m., they were approached by three males in dark clothing wearing ski masks.


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Alexandria police discovered a “commercial-grade smoke bomb” while searching a vehicle on King Street in Old Town on Saturday (Nov. 2) afternoon.

At around 1 p.m., an APD officer reported identifying a 30-year-old suspect wanted for felony destruction of property and wearing a mask in public (also a felony).


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The suspect in the assault of the station manager at the Braddock Road Metro station skipped his arraignment Thursday morning (Oct. 31).

Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Rebecca J. Wade issued a bench warrant against Martinez Juan Robertson of Woodbridge for not appearing in court. Robertson was arrested by Metro Transit Police on the morning of Oct. 16 — two days after the incident — and charged with assault and battery, a misdemeanor.


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A woman was uninjured in an attempted abduction Tuesday evening, and the Alexandria Police Department is asking the public for help.

The victim told police that she was able to break away after a man allegedly grabbed her, put his hand over her mouth and nose, and tried to pull her into the Holmes Run Trail at Tarleton Park, according to APD dispatches.


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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.


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On a recent weekday morning, La Feria Latina was full of men playing skill games. The machines were unlocked when customers gave money to the clerk at the counter.

The convenience store at 3842 Mount Vernon Avenue is one of three in the city’s Arlandria neighborhood that have brought back the machines since they were outlawed as illegal gaming by the Virginia legislature in 2020.


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The Alexandria Police Department says that the shooting death of a 23-year-old resident Saturday night (Oct. 19) is a homicide, and released the identity of the victim.

Carl Harris was found in a parking lot of an apartment building in the 800 block of Manor Road just before 8 p.m. He was put into an SUV and driven to Inova Alexandria Hospital, but was dead on arrival, according to police dispatches.


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A man was arrested this morning after allegedly breaking into the Wells Fargo Bank in the Shoppes of Foxchase in Alexandria’s West End.

APD was alerted at around 6:20 a.m. of a holdup alarm inside the bank at 4601 Duke Street, which is closed for Columbus Day. Video footage showed a male wearing a beige and orange hoodie and walking back and forth inside the bank, according to dispatch reports.


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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.


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Thirty-eight Alexandria students were referred to court for alleged criminal activity in the second semester of the last school year, and there was also a significant uptick in the number of incidents requiring a police response.

That’s according to a new system-wide safety report that the School Board will receive on Thursday night.


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Alexandria City Manager Jim Parajon has hired Tarrick McGuire as Alexandria’s new police chief.

McGuire, the assistant chief of police in Arlington, Texas, has been with that department since 2003 — just three years before Parajon started working in that city government in 2006. There was no mention of their relationship or knowing each other in the release to the public.


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