FCPD Weekly Recap for Friday, March 12
Date Covered: 3/5/2021 – 3/11/2021
Total Calls for Service: 7,080
Total Domestic Related Calls for Service: 312
Total Persons Experiencing Mental Health Crisis Calls for Service: 281
Total Crash Calls for Service: 412
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Multi-Jurisdictional Effort Leads to Arrest In Commercial Burglary Series
Detectives Learn of New Information from 2016 Murder
Man Fatally Shot in Reston Apartment Community
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MOUNT VERNON DISTRICT STATION
SHOOTING: 8700 block of Richmond Highway, 3/6/21, 12:30 a.m. Officers responded for a reported shooting and located cartridge casings in a parking lot. No one injured was found on scene. A man later self-reported to the hospital with an injury that was not life threatening. Detectives are investigating this shooting.
COMMERCIAL BURGLARY: 5965 Telegraph Road (Bestway), 3/8/21, 12:45 a.m. Someone forced entry into the business and attempted to take property.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY: 700 block of Groveton Gardens Road, 3/8/21, 10:17 p.m. Three men approached the victim, demanded money and assaulted him before running away. The victim was taken to the hospital for injuries that were not life threatening.
VEHICLE PURSUIT: Arlington Boulevard at Cedar Lane, 3/6/21, 7:39 a.m. An officer witnessed a 2008 Dodge Caravan drive through a red light and attempted to make a traffic stop, but the driver refused, resulting in a pursuit. The driver, Kevin Blyther, 45, of Centreville, drove through another red light at Arlington Boulevard and Jaguar Trail and hit another vehicle. Blyther, and the other driver, were taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life threatening. Blyther was arrested and charged with speed to elude, driving on a revoked license, two counts of failing to stop at a red light and driving an unregistered vehicle.
ROBBERY: 2900 block of Patrick Henry Drive, 3/9/21, 12:12 a.m. Two men approached the victim, displayed a knife and demanded property. The men assaulted the victim and took his property before running away.
ASSAULT: 2900 block of Willston Place, 3/9/21, 10:50 p.m. The victim was sitting in a car when a man holding knives in both hands ran toward him. The victim drove away and called police. The man ran from officers and discarded the knives prior to being arrested. Jose Cruz-Robles, 24, was charged with assault, disorderly conduct and destruction of property.
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COMMERCIAL BURGLARY: 6500 Springfield Mall (Jewelry Box), 3/10/21, 8:13 p.m. Someone forced entry into the business and took property.
WEST SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT STATION
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This report is published every week, except county holidays. The information in each report covers significant criminal incidents generally from the week before; reports published on Friday cover the preceding Friday through Thursday.
The listed events are organized by police district station. Addresses shown indicate blocks or specific locations. This report is not a comprehensive list of every police event in Fairfax County in the stated time frame.
Note: Information contained in the FCPD RECAP is generally based on initial reports made to the police department. Follow-up investigations may reveal different or additional information.
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