Police Log: July 1-7

The following selected highlights are quoted from the log, July 1 through July 7. 

Incidents:

• A citizen reported that while applying for a new job the prospective employer conducted a background investigation on her. During the investigation it was learned that an unknown subject had been using the complainant’s Social Security number since 1983. This case is still being investigated.
• A citizen reported that unknown subjects have been using his credit card numbers and making fraudulent purchases. This case is still being investigated.
• A citizen reported that she applied for a store credit card. When she did not receive the card she inquired as to why. The store told the woman that the card had been mailed and that there were charges already on the account...this case is still being investigated.
• A teenage girl reported that a suspicious male in a white vehicle had followed her as she walked (along Nutley Street at Windover Avenue.) The driver and vehicle passed her then stopped and turned around to stare at her. This happened on multiple occasions. The vehicle is described as a white 4 door Toyota or Honda Sedan with unknown license plates. The driver is described as Hispanic or Russian, 5’ 10”- 6’ tall with a thin muscular build, gray hair slicked back with a bald spot and gray goatee.
• A citizen reported that some medication had been stolen from the interior of his vehicle. Through extensive and creative investigation MPO Sheeran determined that no larceny had occurred and that the complainant had fabricated the story to obtain a new prescription.
• Officer Vazquez conducted a traffic stop. Upon his interaction with the vehicle’s occupants he detected the presence of suspected alcohol inside the passenger compartment.
  Further investigation revealed the alcohol. Officer Vazquez also learned that the driver did not have an operator’s license.
  Officer Vazquez issued the driver, a 17-year-old female, a summons for Underage Possession of Alcohol and another for No Operator’s License. She was released to the custody of her mother.
• A mother reported that her juvenile son made threats to harm himself. The boy then left the house. With the assistance of the Fairfax County Police Department officers located the boy near the Dunn Loring Metro Station and returned him to his mother. The mother then took the boy for evaluation and treatment.
• A citizen reported that she found a suspicious package in her mailbox. The package was wrapped in white paper and had an odd return address from “Heaven”. The United States Postal Service was contacted and a “Dangerous Package” investigator responded to open it. The package was found to contain some religious items from a past acquaintance and was harmless.
• A citizen reported that her cat had bitten a woman that tried to pet it. The cat was quarantined by ACO Barker and he will follow up on this case.

Arrests:

• A staff member at the Vienna Community Center reported that an unattended 6 year old girl was found in the parking lot area. After locating the child’s mother officers learned that she had brought her kids to play at the Vienna Community Center. After a period of time she told them all it was time to go and she believed that all children had entered her vehicle to leave. The mother then left and neglected to take her 6 year old daughter.
  MPO Evans issued the mother a summons for Failure to Supervise a Child (Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor). She was released after signing the summons.

For questions about this blotter, email lauren.sausser@patch.com.