A 59-year-old West Springfield area man was charged with four counts of possession of child pornography. On Monday, March 1, Charles Duwain Dillon, of 6940 Spelman Drive, turned himself into police headquarters and was arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography. The evidence surfaced during the investigation initiated in 2009.

A former science teacher at Cedar Lee Middle School was convicted today of producing child pornography by filming himself engaging in sexual activity with a student. The teacher – Scott Christopher Howe, 34, of Fauquier County, Va., – faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on June 4, 2010.

Xing Xiao, aka Andy, 32, of Fairfax, Va., today pled guilty to conspiring to hire a hitman to murder someone he believed had stolen more than 15,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes from him.

Mason Police District – A pedestrian was struck while attempting to cross Arlington Boulevard between Patrick Henry Drive and East Manchester Street at around 6:10 a.m. Saturday, March 6. The pedestrian is a man in his late 20s or early 30s and police believe he had been in the crosswalk when he was struck. He was transported to Inova Fairfax Hospital where he is in life-threatening condition.

The Alexandria Police Department is asking for help in identifying two suspects wanted in a robbery that occurred in the 200 block of South Royal Street. On January 11, at around 7:30 p.m., a 29-year-old woman was walking home from work, when she was approached by two suspects. The suspects pushed her up against a [...]

Police are investigating a single-vehicle crash that killed a 47-year-old Alexandria man. At around 10:40 p.m. on Thursday, March 4, Umar Adam was operating a 2008 Honda Civic southbound on South Kings Highway. Near the intersection with Southgate Drive he veered off the road to the right and struck a brick wall

Reginald Arnold Waddell , 53, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 360 months in prison for using a pistol to rob the Dunkin’ Donuts in Arlington. Waddell has an extensive criminal record, including two armed bank robberies, and was sentenced as an armed career criminal.

Today, Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, issued the following statement regarding the unanimous decision today by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to deny Zacarias Moussaoui’s petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc:

Fairfax County Crime Solvers is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the driver of a car that struck and killed a man on Wednesday, February 24. At around 3:30 a.m., police found the body of Efrain Flores-Vasquez, 49, of no fixed address, at Leesburg Pike at I-495.

A lawyer associated with a large crystal meth ring in Arlington, Va., pled guilty to laundering the ring’s drug money, including using the cash to hire legal counsel for a co-conspirator.