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Crime Report: Man Crashes into Boulders, Assaults Cops 04/24/2014 04:30pm • An 18-year-old Arlington resident was arrested early Tuesday morning after police say he drunkenly ran his car into two small “boulders” at Henry Clay Park, then assaulted two police officers as he was being taken him into custody. The man faces a long list of charges, including DUI, pos Family worries American in Egyptian prison will die soon 04/22/2014 09:45am • Omama Altaleb, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON -- Family and friends worried about the health of Mohamed Soltan, a 26- year-old American held for more than 235 days in an Egyptian prison, are calling for his release. They gathered in front of the Egyptian Embassy Monday in an effort to pressure UPDATED: FBI Puts Bradford Bishop On “Ten Most Wanted” List 04/10/2014 11:25am • (Update at 12 p.m.) More than 38 years after the murder of five members of his family in his Bethesda home, the FBI on Thursday put William Bradford Bishop on its “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list. Police believe Bishop, at the time an employee at the State Department, bludgeo Crime Report: Man Beaten, Robbed After Meeting Woman Online 03/21/2014 10:05am • A man was beaten and robbed after inviting a woman he had met online to his apartment. According to this week’s Arlington County crime report, the tattooed woman and an accomplice assaulted the 31-year-old victim at his apartment in the Douglas Park neighborhood near Randolph Elementary School Testimony: Children bitten, tripped at Minnieland 02/26/2014 05:05pm • MANASSAS, Va. - A co-worker of two Minnieland Academy staffers charged with abusing children at the center and an investigator described retaliatory and physical abuse of the toddlers they were supposed to care for. Kierra Nicole Spriggs, 24, and Sarah A. Jordan, 29, arrested in November, appear Leggett touts crime drop over two county executive terms 02/25/2014 01:35pm • County Executive Isiah Leggett on Tuesday touted double digit drops in serious crime and all crime during his seven years in office, four months out from his contested primary race. Leggett, Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger, State’s Attorney John McCarthy and Council President Cra Investigators seek information about crimes related to Welch in other states 02/11/2014 05:17pm • WASHINGTON - Montgomery County police released this list of locations and dates where Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. has been known to reside since the early 1970s. Police and the FBI ask anyone who may have come into contact with Welch to contact investigators, who believe he may have committed other crimes 10 things to know for Monday 02/10/2014 03:16am • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday: 1. RANDOM JUSTICE IN MILITARY SEX ABUSE CASES An AP analysis of more than 1,000 sex crimes reports at military bases in Japan finds that most of the accused didn't ser Year-old murder vexes Prince George's police 01/19/2014 05:09am • WASHINGTON -- A year ago, 23-year-old Antonio Delonte Ross was shot and left for dead on the street where he grew up. Prince George's County Police are back on the scene now - the 1600 block of Tulip Avenue in District Heights - to see if they can solve his murder, which occurred in the evenin Crime Report: West Coast Prostitutes Arrested on the Pike 01/15/2014 04:05pm • Two alleged prostitutes from California were arrested by Arlington police early Friday morning. The pair was arrested at the Sheraton hotel on Columbia Pike, after police discovered online prostitution ads on the website Backpage.com, according Arlington County Police Department spokesman Dustin Ste NOVA Legal Beat: Lying to Get Into the Military? 01/15/2014 03:00pm • Editor’s Note: This sponsored column is written by Mathew B. Tully of Tully Rinckey PLLC, an Arlington firm that specializes in federal employment and labor law, security clearance proceedings, and military law. Q. A few years ago I lied to get into the military. If the military som Crime Report: Christmas and New Year’s Eve 01/03/2014 01:45pm • The Arlington County Police Department has issued its crime report for the two weeks ending Dec. 31. A few days before Christmas, some Grinch stole a fruit basket (and a gift card) from a Virginia Square apartment mail room. BURGLARY, 131219008, 3500 block of N. Washington Boulevard. At 7:30 am Woman, 41, shot to death in Springfield 01/02/2014 08:55am • WASHINGTON - A 41-year-old Springfield woman is dead of an apparent gunshot wound, and Fairfax County police are investigating her death as suspicious. Police say they responded around 6 p.m. New Year's Day to a report of shots fired at a home in the 7100 block of Healy Drive in Springfield. Pol Crime Report: Armed Robbery in Hotel Room 12/12/2013 10:00am • Last Wednesday, an armed man robbed a woman at gunpoint in her room at the Sheraton hotel on Columbia Pike. From this week’s crime report: ROBBERY, 900 block of S. Orme Street. At 10:17 am on December 4, an unknown suspect allegedly robbed a female at gunpoint in her hotel room. The suspect is Md. woman sentenced for hair weave theft, altercation (Video) 12/03/2013 01:07am • WASHINGTON - A Maryland woman who got into an altercation when she tried to steal hair weaves from a Montgomery County store will spend five years in jail, NBC 4 reports. Yvonne Williams, 19, tried to rob Gaithersburg's Town Beauty Supply store of about $850 in hair weaves in September 2012 and g