Sunday was a busy day for the police in Annandale
If you happened to be in central Annandale on Sunday, you might have seen several police incidents.
The husband of an Annandale Today reader had just left the Annandale Giant on May 28 when he saw five or six police cars roaring down Columbia Pike past a heavily damaged police cruiser across from the BonChon building. He followed them along Little River Turnpike and down Wadsworth Court, where he took the above photo of officers hauling someone out of an apartment.
Sgt. Jacob Pearce of the Fairfax County Police Department’s Public Affairs Bureau explains what happened:
Around 7:10 a.m., police officers were in the area for a service call, At the conclusion of that incident, officers observed a man, later identified as Emerson Juarez Ramirez, 18, of Annandale, chasing another man with a knife.
Officers detained Juarez Ramirez and charged him with public intoxication, a concealed weapon violation, and possession of Schedule I or II narcotics.
Then, around 1:30 p.m., officers responded to a call about weapons at the Fairmont Gardens apartments in the 4100 block of Wadsworth Court.
The caller reported that people were outside with knives. During their investigation, officers arrested Hector Morales Guerrero on an outstanding warrant unrelated to the original event. No injuries were reported.
A patrol officer was responding to the weapons call with flashing lights and siren activated when a motorist drove across four lanes of traffic in front of the cruiser, resulting in a crash. No one was injured in the crash.
25 responses to “Sunday was a busy day for the police in Annandale”
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Drove across 4 lanes of traffic?
Driver was either doing it intentionally or is the most intelligent person on the face of the Earth.
I’m not sure why the police are targeting the latinx population. To achieve equality through equity, we must use thoughtful discretion in policing.
Really? Individuals with knives, outstanding warrants, intoxication, controlled substances, gross moving violations with total disregard for traffic law. This has nothing to do with race but rather open contempt for laws we live under by criminals at worst, and people that should not be ally to drive at best.
How do you figure police are “targeting” anyone? Demographically speaking, Fairmont Gardens is pretty much “Latinx.”
I’m sorry but if you are chasing someone with a knife & are drunk/high you SHOULD be arrested.
As both calls involved knives the police did do the right thing, it just happened that they were Latinx.
Ehm, let’s review: On a service call at 7:10 AM and an intoxicated person is chasing another person with a knife. That is not targeting anyone. In the next incident, they were asked to respond to people outside with knives. Again, NOT targeting. How about the police respond to the calls and needs of the people in their district regardless of their race? Is that thoughtful enough?
Stop. Nobody’s being targeted. However, that apartment complex should be targeted for demolition!
When people are chasing each other with knives, it doesn’t matter what their ethnic origin is. They are danger criminals that need to be stopped and put in prison.
There are several garden style apartment complexes in the Mason district that need to be demolished and turned into more effective rowhome/townhome style residences. Wadsworth court, Olde Salem Village, Hillwood Manor and the Americana/Heritage Drive all need to be updated- this blight needs to go!
Arlington and Falls Church City seem to have found solutions to tear down their older apartments to become mix-used upper-scale housing while preserving affordable housing that keeps crime out. The aforementioned garden complexes are nearly 80 years old; some don’t have AC/Heat, boarding housing, and insects/rodents along with the crime/drugs. Hopefully the next supervisor will follow the lead of Arlington and Falls Church City.
I couldn’t agree more. The Culmore apartments especially need to go. That area is probably the biggest slum in the county.
“Targeting the latinx population”? Seriously? The citizens (the latinx neighbors and brethren) called in a weapons threat and FCPD responded. Target deez.
One thing I learned early as a child was to mind my own business. I can’t imagine being so nosy as to follow police into a crime scene to get a photo.
That was my first thought, too. Let the cops, fire department, EMT’s do their jobs without extra looky-loos following them. If you’ve got nothing better to do, find someplace to volunteer or just go read a book.
Love the picture. It says a thousand words. We need more nosy people. If it concerns public safety, it’s fair game.
I don’t care what race you are. If you are breaking the law and threatening the safety of the people then it needs to be stopped period. Stop looking at the police and look at the criminals who are threating safety- the race does not matter. It was not like this in the past which is why people came here. We need people in our community who live peacefully and in harmony
Well – what was designed and built as a residential community – has been slowly devolved into a haven for low lifes wielding knives. When will we wake up and stop the nonsense?
That photo is not on Wadsworth Court (Fairmont Gardens). That’s not what any of the apartments there look like. (I lived there for a couple years in the late 70s when it was nice.)
Maybe that’s the other development across 236; the house color and style looks more like those. Do they have 1-floor buildings over there?
The exterior of Fairmont Gardens was upgraded a few years ago.
thats fairmont gardens there was a repaint a few years ago
It’s crazy. The apartments xin Fairmount cost over $1600 a month BUT they are almost ALL sublettingThe people live there from sun down to sun up. The living rooms dinning rooms bed rooms are split multiple times and sublets pay more than $300 a WEEK! NO WONDER THERE IS NO LOW INCOME APARTMENTS! When apartment complexes look other way on illegal rentals!!!!
A blogger said it well last week in a post: we live in a sewage dump. Wait to you see what zMod does to the rest of Mason. We will all need our own private security guards.
Welcome to the 4th world folks.
A blogger said it well last week in a post: we live in a sewage dump. Wait to you see what zMod does to the rest of Mason. We will all need our own private security guards.
Welcome to the 4th world folks.
Keep on targeting if thats what you want to call it.
I was the Washington Post paperboy in Fairmont Gardens back in the mid to late 60’s delivering papers around 5am every morning and my only problem was a stray dog or two. I wouldn’t go in that area now in daylight. Very sad how Annandale has changed.