Alexandria VA

The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested and charged a 17-year-old boy from Northwest with snatching a person's AirPods earbud headphones.

Washington D.C.'s Navy Yard neighborhood was the scene of an unusual drug bust last Friday when Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers encountered a mobile trailer with neon signs brazenly advertising 'THC Sold Here' and 'Open'. During a routine patrol last Friday, at around 8:50 p.m., officers discovered the...

The single-vehicle wreck happened just after 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, in the northbound lanes of Indian Head Highway near the Kerby Hill Road exit in Oxon Hill, according to the Prince George’s County Police Department. District resident Ursula Churn, 70, was pronounced dead at the scene. A second...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (7News) — A 34-year-old D.C. man was sentenced to nine years, or 108 months, in federal prison for his participation in a multi-state, South Asian jewelry store armed robbery ring allegedly led by a rapper named "Taliban Glizzy." According to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro, Robert...

A man found deceased this morning (July 2) with a gunshot wound to his head and black duct tape wrapped around his mouth in Holmes Run Park shot himself, according to a preliminary report from the Alexandria Police Department. APD was notified at around 6:45 a.m. that a man with...

CHELTENHAM, Md. - Prince George’s County’s newly appointed fire chief, Thelmetria Michaelides, collapsed Wednesday during a Fourth of July fireworks safety demonstration at the department’s training academy. The incident occurred in Cheltenham. FOX 5’s Stephanie Ramirez reported that Michaelides was conscious and...

Ricardo Kevon Colbert-Lyles, 24, of Waldorf, was handed a 25-year prison term, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the 2022 killing of 19-year-old Aden Christopher Garcia, according to Charles County State’s Attorney Tony Covington. Garcia was ambushed on Oct. 23, 2022, during a...

A Salvadoran father who was arrested by Alexandria police and handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spoke out after spending nearly two months in a detention center. The 27-year-old Salvadoran man, who asked not to be identified, said his ordeal began in the Alexandria jail. He was arrested...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) — The Alexandria Police Department is investigating and searching for a man involved in a series of indecent exposure incidents that happened in the Del Ray, Rosemont and North Ridge neighborhoods. The man, described as muscular or with a heavy build, allegedly exposed himself to the...

This year’s “Miss Arlington” took home the title of Miss Virginia 2025 at a ceremony on Saturday. Madison Whitbeck received the crown and scholarships totaling $22,500. The 20-year-old sophomore at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. plans to use her title to champion arts education and travel around Virginia as a...