(Updated at 12:10 p.m.) A crash along Old Dominion Drive in downtown McLean seriously injured a pedestrian.
Fairfax County police responded shortly before 11 a.m. to the crash outside the Wells Fargo Bank at 6844 Old Dominion Drive.
“The pedestrian was taken to a hospital with serious injuries,” the police department tweeted. Shortly after noon, the police department tweeted that the pedestrian’s injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
No word yet on whether the driver was injured.
Police told Tysons Reporter that a driver struck a pedestrian in the parking lot and then drove into the side of the building.
A reporter for Tysons Reporter noted that the Wells Fargo is currently closed up by the police tape.
The crash remains under investigation. The pedestrian's injuries are believed to be not life threatening.https://t.co/M6railseqs
— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD) July 1, 2019
Catherine Moran and Vernon Miles worked on this story.
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The City of Falls Church Police Department is seeking the public’s help to identify one of the suspects in the recent armed robbery in West End Plaza.
The police department released two photos of the main suspect. “The suspect appears to be a black male, about 30 to 40 years old, about 6′ tall, medium build, with a shaved head, beard and mustache,” according to police.
Police said the robbery on Thursday, June 20, involved four men.
Anyone with information is asked to call the City of Falls Church Police at 703-248-5053.
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After an eight-hour-long search last week, Vienna police tracked down and arrested a man in connection with several crimes around the Town of Vienna, including assault, fraud and burglary.
It all started shortly after midnight last Monday (June 17) when police said a 27-year-old man of no fixed residence tried to pay a cab driver, who had dropped him off in front of the Wolftrap Hotel (430 W. Maple Avenue), with multiple credit cards that were all declined.
“The man began to walk away, and when the cab driver confronted him regarding the payment, the man threatened him with a knife,” according to police. “The man then ran off behind the hotel.”
About four hours later, police said that the man was caught trying to get into a home in the 300 block of Nutley Street and ran off. The resident of the home went out to look for the man, found him and recognized him as an acquaintance, according to police.
When the resident told the man to leave the property, the man threatened the resident with a knife and then ran away, police said.
Shortly before 8:30 a.m., a different resident at a home in the 200 block of Paris Court SW spotted the man on her deck while checking her home’s security cameras.
“Officers located the man and found he was the same person involved in the incidents that had occurred earlier,” according to police.
By that point, the police had warrants charging assault with a weapon, defrauding a cab driver, burglary with a weapon and assault. Once they found the man, police determined that he was also wanted in Fairfax County on warrants charging probation violation and failure to appear in court.
After he was arrested, “the man began complaining that he did not feel well and needed medical attention,” according to police. He was taken to a nearby hospital for an evaluation and, once the hospital staff cleared him, to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.
But that’s not all.
While police were searching for the man, police said they stumbled across several bags of his belongings in the backyard of a home in the 100 block of Mendon Lane SW.
“The resident advised the bags did not belong to him, and he wanted them removed,” according to police. “Officers inventoried the property and found that in addition to personal belongings, the bags contained narcotics and drug paraphernalia.”
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The Fairfax County Police Department is seeking the public’s help to identify two men allegedly involved in theft and fraud in Falls Church.
“Officers are asking for the public’s help identifying two men suspected of stealing purses from parked cars in cemeteries in the Falls Church area of the county while victims attended burial services and visited grave sites,” according to a press release from FCPD today (Thursday).
Police said the suspects used credit cards from the purses at Target and Walmart multiple times.
People with information or who recognize the suspects can contact Officer P. King at the McLean District Police Station at 703-556-7750 or submit an anonymous tip.
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Fairfax County police are looking for the three men in connection with an armed robbery at a pawn shop in Falls Church.
Police said that the men entered the Top Pawn Shop (2806 Graham Road), displayed a handgun and stole jewelry.
The incident occurred around 1 p.m. on Monday (June 24).
“The suspects are described as Hispanic men in their late teens or early 20s,” according to the police report.
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Fairfax County police are looking for the burglar who stole two Infiniti cars from a Tysons car dealership.
“Someone broke into the dealership and stole a 2011 Infiniti G35 and a 2010 Infiniti FX35,” according to the crime report.
The incident occurred around 1 a.m. on Thursday (June 20) at the Infiniti dealer (8527 Leesburg Pike).
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A music teacher who was facing charges of sexually abusing former students was found dead Wednesday (June 19).
Back in April, Fairfax County police arrested Jeffrey Cummins, the owner of the Huntington Learning Centers franchises in Tysons and Springfield, on charges of sexually abusing two former students.
After detectives found multiple victims, Cummins made arrangements to surrender himself to police on Tuesday (June 18), but he never arrived, according to the police department.
The next day, Cummins was found dead near Warsaw, Virginia. At the time of his death, he was facing eight felony counts and one count of aggravated sexual battery.
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Detectives from our Major Crimes Bureau began their investigation in May 2018 when a juvenile disclosed being inappropriately touched by Jeffrey Cummins over a period of several years. In January, another victim came forward and also disclosed being abused for several years by Cummins.
Detectives discovered four additional victims who came forward and disclosed they had also been sexually abused by Cummins between 1987 to 2017. On Tuesday, June 18, nine additional felony warrants were obtained for Cummins. The charges included eight counts of indecent liberties by a custodian and one count of aggravated sexual battery…
Cummins was a private music teacher and gave lessons in his home in Annandale. He was also the founder and artistic director of Virginia Music Adventures, a traveling music group for school-age children. The investigation showed that the sexual abuse occurred both during music lessons and at other times when the juveniles were at his home. Cummins was also the owner of two Huntington Learning Centers, one located in Tysons and one in Springfield. He taught at Langley School in McLean, Green Hedges School in Vienna and Washington Episcopal School in Bethesda, Maryland.
The Virginia State Police are investigating his death and “at this stage of the investigation, no foul play is suspected,” according to FCPD.
The Office of the Medical Examiner in Richmond will complete an examination and autopsy.
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The Vienna Police Department got involved in a civil dispute between a local bakery and its landlord.
Last Friday (June 14), the property manager Glyndon Plaza reported to the police that the owners of Silva’s Patisserie had broken their lease by moving out of the rented space at 167 Glyndon Street SE.
“In the process, the owners took several items that the manager advised belonged to the shopping center,” according to the police report.
Police said the property manager intends to pursue civil action in the matter.
This past week, local crimes include a resident in the 400 block of Old Courthouse Road NE who reported to the police that someone had been continuously leaving tacks under her vehicle tires early in the morning throughout May and early June.
In a separate incident, police said that a woman went to CVS (337P E. Maple Avenue) and came back to find a note left on her car from a stranger, “who stated that he found her attractive and wanted to get to know her.”
That incident occurred around 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday (June 19).
City of Falls Church Police are looking for the four men who robbed someone at West End Plaza early Thursday (June 20) morning.
Police responded to the incident around 12:15 a.m. at 1057 W. Broad Street.
“The victim stated that approximately five minutes prior, a black male with a beard, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt entered the business space, pointed a handgun at the victim, and demanded cash,” according to the press release.
Police said the male robber then joined three more men in the parking lot, and they ran westbound on the W&OD Trail toward Fairfax County.
The victim was unharmed, according to the press release.
Anyone with information is asked to call 703-248-5053 (TTY 711).
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(Updated at 10:20 a.m.) The driver of a tractor-trailer died today (Thursday) in a crash and fire on I-495.
Right before 2 a.m., Virginia State Police responded to a crash in the southbound lanes of I-495 at Exit 49, which heads onto westbound I-66, Corinne Geller, a spokesperson for the Virginia State Police, said.
The tractor-trailer ran off the right side of the interstate and struck the cement barrier, which ruptured the truck’s fuel tank, police said.
“This caused the vehicle to catch fire and become engulfed in flames,” Geller said. “The impact with the barrier wall also dislodged the vehicle’s axles, which ended up blocking several travel lanes.”
The driver of the vehicle died at the scene, and the Office of the Medical Examiner in Manassas will conduct an autopsy, examination and identification, Geller said.
The crash is currently under investigation, Geller said.
FINAL: Vehicle Fire. I-495 SB (Outer Loop) past I-66 (Exit 49). Fairfax County, Virginia. Incident clear and all travel lanes are reopened. Delays dissipating.
— MATOC Alerts (@MATOC) June 20, 2019
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