Alexandria VA

As summer continues in the Washington region, people are anxious to get outside and enjoy the multiple parks, from pocket parks to national parks, with which our region is blessed. People want to enjoy the calming effect that being in nature has been shown to have on our physical and mental health; they want to enjoy...

Police arrested and charged one person after a business in Northeast D.C. was burglarized in July.

A 26-year-old Washington, D.C. man has pleaded guilty to felony charges related to the attempted abduction and rape of a woman in Alexandria’s Potomac Yard neighborhood. Dykwon Perry Davis pleaded guilty in Alexandria Circuit Court on August 7, 2025, to abduction with the intent to defile and attempted rape for the...

Three brothers from D.C. were sentenced for a string of armed robberies across Maryland and Virginia.

Police in D.C. said one person was hospitalized with serious injuries after a road rage incident escalated to a shooting and a crash in Northeast overnight.

Chief Antonio DeVaul from the Takoma Park Police Department has the arrest of Kindasia Nixon, 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, for vandalism to a business. According to police, on August 2 at approximately 6:47 am, a Takoma Park Police officer on patrol witnessed a woman, later identified as Nixon, throwing a rock at the...

Thank you for reading D.C. Witness. Consider making a donation to help us continue our mission. DC Superior Court Judge Michael Ryan denied a mother and son co-defendants’ request to withdraw their guilty pleas on Aug. 4. On Oct. 24, 2024, Chakeatia Jackson, 40, pleaded guilty to assault with...

Imagine being on your way home after work and the next thing you know you're waking up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. That’s what Angelica Zúñiga went through. Her family said she was assaulted on her way home on her scooter on a...

An Annandale man is facing numerous charges after a call for suspicious activity in a parking lot led to a big drug bust. The arrest happened early Monday morning in a parking lot on N. Pierce Street, in the Fort Myer Heights neighborhood near Rosslyn. Police say they saw drug paraphernalia “in plain view” inside a...

A trial date has been set for one of two suspects accused in a 2023 mass shooting during homecoming celebrations at Morgan State University that left five people injured.