Crime & Safety

Police: Suspects Steal Cars, Send Nasty Emails

Police activity May 5-9

Fairfax City Police seek suspects who walk on cars, smash in law office windows, send inappropriate emails, and assault a man for his laptop. Read on for more early May crime news:

  • An Ulta manager saw a female juvenile concealing merchandise on May 5. A woman made it out of the store with stolen items around the same time. Both were caught on surveillance footage.
  • Someone used a person's bank card number to make three different cash withdrawals in Louisiana. Police took the report on May 5 in the 10500 block of Main Street.
  • A U-Haul customer told police someone had taken his GPS unit on May 2, which had been left in his U-Haul rental.
  • Someone shattered the front glass door at Greenspun Attorney at Law offices on Chain Bridge Road on May 6.
  • Police are looking for who walked on the trunk, windshield and hood of a car parked on the 4000 block of Woodland Drive on May 8. The car had a broken windshield.
  • An annoying caller is suspected of calling fire, rescue and police to his home on Armstrong Street when there was no emergency. Police charged the woman with annoying phone calls to emergency services, falsely calling ambulance or fire-fighting apparatus and falsely calling law enforcement.
  • Someone(s) entered an unlocked car at the Draper Drive Park entrance, cut the front seats and damaged the windshield sometime after 2 a.m. on May 9.
  • A Lyndhurst woman turned to police after receiving a sexually explicit email from a stranger on May 9. The suspect also asked for information about her.
  • Police are on the lookout for those who stole a 2000 Dodge Caravan from his parking space in the 3900 block of Wilcoxsen Drive between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m on May 9. A bike was inside the van when the vehicle was taken.
  • A Fairfax Square Apartments tenant expected to get some money for his laptop computer. The man who answered the online ad and agreed to buy it from him, however, didn't intend to pay. The suspect met up with him on May 9, shoved him, ripped the computer out of his hands, and fled in a pearl-colored, two-door Cadillac driven by another man. He was described as black, in his late 20s, about six feet two inches tall with a full beard and short, black hair.

Call Fairfax City Police Department at 703-385-7960 with any information.


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