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A 70-year-old Burke-area woman answered her phone this week and the caller told the woman she’d won 3.5 million dollars and a brand new Mercedes. But there was a catch. The woman was instructed to purchase Green Dot payment cards and provide the caller with the account numbers.

Family and friends will say a final good-by to Alexandria activist Lenny Harris on Monday, Feb. 6. The funeral will be held at the Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church, 610 Rhode Island Avenue, N. E. Washington, DC, 20002.

Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, today announced the promotion of Bob Wiechering as the new chief of the District’s Criminal Division and Michael Dry as the new deputy criminal chief.

Linwood Johnson, 49, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, has reportedly confessed to killing Alexandria citizen activist Lenny Harris. According to reports, the two men knew each other and the motive was robbery.

As family and friends prepare to say a final farewell to murdered Alexandria activist Lenny Harris, Alexandria police are once again asking for the public’s help to identify persons of interest in the case.

The Maryland medical examiner has identified the body recovered from a well in Prince Georges County as missing Alexandria activist Lenny Harris. The medical examiner has ruled his death a homicide.

PG County Police have recovered a body from an abandoned well in the Fort Washington area. It has been transported to the medical examiners office for autopsy and identification.

Alexandria Police detectives are assisting Prince Georges County Police in investigating an anonymous tip of a body in a well.

Alexandria Police have resolved a barricade incident that occurred in the 300 block of Hopkins Court.

Yonathan Melaku, 23, of Alexandria, Va., pled guilty today to damaging property and firearm violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in Northern Virginia between October and November 2010 and attempting to injure veterans’ memorials at Arlington National Cemetery.