<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Crime</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/fairfax/crime?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><description>Crime</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Fairfax Crime Watch]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7118-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7118-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fairfax County <br><em>The following incidents were recently reported by the Fairfax County Police Department. For more information, call 703-246-2253.</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosecutors Say Slaying Of Witness Was Planned]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45042-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45042-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There was nothing spontaneous about the brutal, midmorning slaying of Brenda Paz, prosecutors said yesterday. Over several months, the stabbing death of the federal witness was meticulously plotted from an Alexandria jail cell, and when it came time to execute the plan, July 13, 2003, it was calculated and precise, they said.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell and Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[District Man's Police Shootout Case Sent to Grand Jury]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22160-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22160-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fairfax County police officer Lance Guckenberger figured it was just another false alarm. Everything looked fine inside the Ace Cash Express on Columbia Pike, and the manager was on the phone, probably to the alarm company, Guckenberger thought.]]></description><author> Tom Jackman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answers  Sought in  Va. Man's Slaying]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12220-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12220-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sandra Moore was still trying to figure out Sunday why her son, 20-year-old Brendan A. Tash, was shot to death early Sunday morning.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheriff's Pay, Police Increases Held Back]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1514-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1514-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fairfax County sheriff's deputies would no longer have pay parity with Fairfax police officers, and the police department's request for 25 more patrol officers would be sliced to eight, in the budget proposed Monday by County Executive Anthony H. Griffin.]]></description><author> Tom Jackman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connolly Touts 'Progress' In Fairfax but Warns of Gangs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51855-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51855-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Fairfax County Board Chairman Gerald E. Connolly (D) last night highlighted progress on his watch, saying he had increased affordable housing and improved mass transit and air quality, but he also warned that gang violence still poses the county's biggest challenge.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chance for a Clean Start]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36703-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36703-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dr. Colin Berry's office in Yorktown, Va., offers more than a tattoo removal service. It is where former gang members who are willing to endure a little pain can find redemption.]]></description><author> David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder Trial Offers Rare Look at MS-13]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29133-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29133-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Fairfax County gang unit detective played a key role in a recent court case in Prince George's County in which a Suitland man was convicted of first-degree murder.]]></description><author> Ruben Castaneda</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilty Plea In McLean Abduction, Robbery]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24588-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24588-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One of two men charged with abducting the wife of U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) from her McLean home pleaded guilty yesterday under an agreement with prosecutors that he will serve 15 years in prison.]]></description><author> Carol Morello</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Teens Charged In Armed Robberies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24578-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24578-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Five young people arrested in the District last month are suspected of stealing more than two dozen coats bearing the popular brand name The North Face in a rash of armed street stickups, according to police, who said yesterday that the number of such robberies has dropped since the five were taken into custody.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trial Offers Rare Look at Gang Life]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11332-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11332-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A murder trial in Prince George's Circuit Court two weeks ago, in which a young Suitland man was convicted of first-degree murder, offered an unusual glimpse into  a Latino gang that officials say is responsible for an increasing amount of violence in the Washington area.]]></description><author> Ruben Castaneda</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Delegates Add Fines for Driving Errors]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1766-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1766-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Feb. 5 -- Virginia's House of Delegates voted Saturday to impose steep new fines on reckless drivers and speeders, which House Republicans said would raise more than $100 million a year for transportation projects.]]></description><author> Chris L. Jenkins and Michael D. Shear</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[MS-13 Man Sentenced to 3 Life Terms]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64761-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64761-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Salvadoran street gang member was sentenced for the 2001 rape and killing of a Falls Church area woman.]]></description><author> Tom Jackman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gangs' Deadly Reach Growing Younger]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47558-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47558-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ethnic gangs lure children as young as 9, extending their reach even into the area's most affluent suburbs.]]></description><author> David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Teen Feared With Slaying Suspect]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42889-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42889-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A man suspected in the slaying of a Sterling woman last weekend might be traveling with a Fairfax County teenager reported missing by her family, a Loudoun County sheriff's spokesman said.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard  and Tom Jackman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[DWI Charge Rejected]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50822-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50822-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Fairfax County judge dismissed a drunken driving charge against Sean Taylor after watching a tape of Taylor's sobriety tests.]]></description><author> Tom Jackman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killings in District Fewest Since 1986]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39858-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39858-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While D.C. homicides have dropped, killings in Prince George's County have more than doubled in the past four years, with most of the violence occurring near the Prince George's-D.C. line.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber and Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blade in N.Va. Man's Shoe Baffles Federal Authorities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23389-2004Dec23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23389-2004Dec23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax/crime</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:40:45 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal investigators said that they have no idea how a three-inch blade found its way into the insole of the shoe of a Fairfax County man who was arrested after trying to board a flight in Honolulu.]]></description><author> Steven Ginsberg</author></item></channel></rss>