VIENNA WOMAN, 80, KILLED IN PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT IN OAKTON: Fairfax County police are investigating a Sept. 21 pedestrian accident in Oakton that killed an 80-year-old Vienna woman.
County police around 8:42 a.m. that day dispatched officers to the intersection of Hunter Mill Road and Lynnhaven Place after receiving a report that a pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle.
The driver remained at the scene, police said.
Preliminarily, detectives determined that the victim, Choon Kook, had entered the crosswalk at the intersection when the driver of a Ford F-150 tried to make a turn into the Oakton Shopping Center from Hunter Mill Road and struck Kook. Rescue personnel transported her to the hospital and she later was pronounced deceased.
Speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors for the driver, nor alcohol for the pedestrian, police said.
DESPITE POLICE LIGHTS, DRIVER KEEPS ON GOING (TWICE): On Sept. 10 at 2:30 p.m., an officer on patrol observed a driver commit a traffic offense in the area of Park Street and Maple Avenue and initiated a traffic stop, Vienna police said.
The driver disregarded the attempt and continued traveling southbound on Glyndon Street and into a parking lot, police said.
Upon the officer’s initial interaction with the driver, signs of impairment were noted, police said. The driver then attempted to drive away from the scene, leaving the parking lot followed by police.
The driver then pulled into a nearby parking lot, failed a series of field-sobriety tests and was placed under arrest.
The 61-year-old Dumfries woman was transported to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and charged with driving while intoxicated, failure to obey a red traffic signal, eluding, refusal of breath test (second offense) and texting while driving.
WAWA THIEVES GET OFF RELATIVELY LIGHTLY: On Sept. 14 at 9 p.m., an employee of Wawa in the 400 block of Maple Avenue, W., stopped three individuals who had taken items from the store and left without paying, Arlington police said.
One of the individuals was over 18 and had taken two bottles of alcohol; he returned the alcohol to the employee, town police said. Two juveniles paid the employee for the non-alcoholic drinks they had taken.
A responding officer issues a summons charging each of the individuals with petty larceny. The adult was released on his signature while the juveniles were released to their parents. All three were trespassed from the store, police said.
THIEF TOSSES HIS BIG GULP AT 7-ELEVEN EMPLOYEE: On Sept. 12 at 1:57 p.m., a man reportedly left the 7-Eleven in the 400 block of Maple Ave., E., without paying for a fountain drink, Vienna police said.
When an employee confronted the man outside the store, he threw the drink at him and began walking westbound, police said.
Responding officers found the man outside a bank in the 300 block of Maple Ave., E. The employee did not wish to pursue larceny charges, but requested that police trespass the individual from the property.
During the investigation, officers determined there was an outstanding arrest warrant for the 22-year-old Alexandria man out of Fairfax County. He was transported to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where the warrant charging a probation violation was served, and was held without bond.
GOOD SAMARITAN CALLS COPS AFTER MAN WON’T LEAVE: A resident of Echols Street, S.E., contacted Vienna police on Sept. 14 at 2:19 p.m. after a man she had provided shelter to was becoming abusive toward her, and refused to leave, Vienna police said.
At the resident’s request, the man was trespassed from the property.
SUSPECT LUCKS OUT: MARYLAND DOESN’T WANT HIM BACK: On Sept. 19 at 10 p.m., police were called to Jammin Java in the 200 block of Maple Avenue, E., for a report of a man who had entered an event without purchasing a pass and became irate when asked to leave, Vienna police said.
Officers located the man at a bus stop in front of the establishment, and upon investigation determined that he was wanted on a warrant out of Maryland.
Police contacted authorities in the issuing jurisdiction, who were disinclined to extradite the individual from out of state.
Vienna police trespassed the man from the venue.
CAR-PILFERER COMES OUT SMELLING LIKE A ROSE: On Sept. 11 at 5:21 a.m., a resident of the 300 block of Blair Court, N.W., in Vienna reported to town police that someone had rummaged through his unlocked vehicle.
U.S. currency and cologne were taken.
Similar incidents of cars being broken into (but without cologne being taken) were reported around the same timeframe in the 900 block of Fairway Drive, N.E., and the 900 block of Westwood Drive, N.E.
BIKE TAKEN, MAYBE FOUND, BUT COULD NOT BE RETRIEVED: On Sept. 15, a youth had left his bicycle unsecured outside a store in the 200 block of Cedar Lane, N.E., and returned a few minutes later to find it gone, Vienna police said.
A parent found a bicycle that appeared to be his son’s, chained to a bike rack, but was unable to provide a serial number to verify it was the bike in question.
MAN, 81, CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULTS AT HORSE FARM IN EARLY ’80s: Fairfax County authorities have arrested and charged an 81-year-old Fredericksburg man with two counts of indecent liberties for crimes that allegedly occurred more than 40 years ago in Great Falls.
On June 7, officers from the department’s McLean District Station took a report from a victim who stated she had been sexually assaulted multiple times by a man between 1980 and 1983. The victim reported that the alleged assaults occurred at a horse farm in Great Falls.
Detectives zeroed in on Edward Shelton as a suspect. Shelton worked as a farrier – someone who trims and balances horses’ hooves and puts horseshoes on them if needed – on various horse farms throughout Northern Virginia and Stafford during that time, police said.
Detectives obtained warrants against Shelton for two counts of indecent liberties. Shelton on Sept. 19 turned himself in to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office. Upon completion of legal process, he will be transported to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center. He is being held on no bond.
