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Police charge Springfield teen with bomb threat
On Friday, county police charged a 15-year-old West Springfield High School student with making a bomb threat, destruction of property and trespassing stemming from an incident on Oct. 8, 2009.
Police said they received information that a classroom window at West Springfield Elementary School was broken some time after school hours on Oct. 8. A note was found the next morning that made reference to an explosive device at West Springfield High School.
School officials contacted police and parents, and both schools were evacuated. No explosives were detected, police said.
School resource officers and detectives from the West Springfield criminal investigation section say that they were able to link the teen to the incident.
Armed robbery
at Oakton Bob Evans
Police are searching for a suspect in an armed robbery at a Bob Evans restaurant in Oakton on Sunday.
Fairfax County Police say a 53-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint around 10:45 p.m. in the Bob Evans restaurant, located on White Granite Drive.
They say the victim was closing up the restaurant when he encountered a man inside the building. The man displayed a handgun and demanded cash. The victim complied and the armed man locked him in a back room and left on foot. The victim was not injured.
The suspect was described as white, in his 30s, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, around 190 pounds and wearing a gray hoodie, blue jeans and a black mask.
Cocaine-infused chicken
turns up at Dulles
Two days after Thanksgiving, federal Customs and Border Protection agents tore into a chicken at Washington Dulles International Airport.
It wasn't because they were hungry, the bird turned out to contain over 60 grams of cocaine.
Wagner Mauricio Linares Aragon, 32, of Guatemala, who CPB said was traveling with the contraband chicken, was arrested.
CPB authorities said Aragon arrived on a flight from El Salvador shortly after midnight that Saturday. During an inspection, CBP officers discovered two small clear plastic bags inside the chicken's cavity. The white powdery substance inside the plastic bags tested positive for cocaine. The cocaine weighed 60.4 grams, or 2.3 ounces, with an estimated street value of $4,300.
CBP turned Linares Aragon and the cocaine over to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police shortly after 7 a.m.
"CBP officers have seen many unique narcotics concealment methods, and they all present the same challenges to discover them. Our officer's inspection was very thorough and earned solid results," said Christopher Hess, CBP Port Director for the Port of Washington. "CBP officers remain vigilant to detect creative concealment methods, and to stem the flow of illegal narcotics from reaching our nation's streets."
It is unknown if Aragon has yet sought legal representation.
DNA hit leads to arrest
in 1987 sexual assault case
Fairfax County Police say DNA testing has led them to a suspect in a 22-year-old sexual assault case.
In spring, the Fairfax County Police Department's Cold Case Sexual Crimes Unit re-opened a case from 1987.
Police say that on May 11 of that year, someone broke into a home in the 7400 block of Lisle Avenue in the Pimmit Hills area of Fairfax County.
Police say a 30-year-old female resident was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted. The victim eventually jumped out of a window to escape her attacker. The suspect fled and managed to evade capture until now.
Fairfax County detectives recently submitted DNA evidence to the Virginia Forensic Laboratory and a positive match was found in their DNA database.
Based on this information, Cold Case detectives proceeded with their investigation and evidence was presented to the Grand Jury on Nov. 16.
John Q. Kinsey, 49, of Greencastle, Pa. was indicted for rape and burglary with intent to commit rape.
On Nov. 20, Kinsey was arrested by the Pennsylvania State Police at his residence. He was returned to Virginia on Dec. 2 to face the criminal allegations.