Thursday, April 11, 2013
Cameron Serafin, 5, was supposed to be returned to his father on Sunday; authorities have issued a warrant for his mother.
Five-year-old Cameron Serafin was supposed to return Sunday to his father in Great Falls. But he never came home, say Fairfax County police, who asked for the public's help Thursday in finding the missing child. According to police, Cameron is believed to be with his mother, Rebecca Serafin, 32. Serafin was supposed to return the child to his father on Sunday. A warrant has been issued for Serafin’s arrest on charges of custodial interference, a misdemeanor, police said. Detectives say they have reason to be concerned about the boy's welfare. There was no address available for Cameron's mother. Fairfax Police Officer Shelley Broderick said Cameron and his mother could be anywhere. Police believe that Serafin has changed her and her son’s …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Julia Franzke Vazquez, 26, of Triangle, is charged with attempted first degree murder and arson to an occupied dwelling.
A Triangle woman is accused of trying to kill herself and her 3-year-old girl in a house fire. Julia Franzke Vazquez, 26, of Fuller Heights Road, is now charged with attempted first degree murder and arson to an occupied dwelling. She remains in custody at a local hospital for treatment and evaluation. On Wednesday afternoon, Vazquez gave her daughter cough medicine to make her fall asleep, then "lit a fire with the intent to kill them both," said Officer Jonathan Perok, a spokesman for the Prince William County Police Department. When the fire became too intense, she extinguished the fire and drove the little girl to a family member in Fairfax, according to investigators. However, Vazquez subsequently struck a tree with her car in …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
More than 75 police officers participated in investigation in southeastern Fairfax County and Prince William County that led to criminal charges.
On Thursday, Fairfax County Police Department officials announced they had arrested more than 100 people on 168 charges ranging from drugs to weapons to murder-for-hire. The investigation, conducted with the Prince William County Police Department and the Virginia State Police, involved more than 75 officers and took more than a year. The majority of the arrests and related incidents were in southeastern Fairfax County and Prince William County along the Richmond Highway/Route 1 corridor. The following are live updates from Thursday's Fairfax County Police Department joint press conference and other details as they developed Thursday afternoon, in reverse-chronological order. ------------------- (UPDATE 3:45 p.m.) A search warrant for …
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Northern Virginia law enforcement and the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner met with reporters Thursday morning in an effort to identify three sets of skeletal remains found over the course of nine years in three spots in Northern Virginia.
His body was found in a wooded area in Fairfax in 2006—the only clues about his past life were the clothes on his back, some writings from a makeshift camp and a broken rosary. The case of this still-unidentified man is one of three cold cases highlighted Thursday in Manassas at a press conference hosted by the office of Virginia’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Leah Bush. Also present were three gray "facial approximation" busts of the unidentified remains, made in hopes that someone, somewhere will recognize the faces and provide answers. Cold Case #1: Older White Male in Fairfax The skeletal remains found in Fairfax on April 6, 2006 are thought to be that of an older white man, between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 11 inches tall. The remains …
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Area police chiefs to drunk drivers: We'll get you.
An Alexandria mother remembers a wonderful Christmas Day 2006 with her family. The next day she was beside a hospital bed where her youngest son "was struggling for his life." Greg Berry, 18, a senior at T.C. Williams High School had gone for a ride with a friend who was driving drunk. The car smashed into a telephone pole. Both men extracted from the mangled car by the jaws of life. He had a broken leg, cuts and a severe brain injury that claimed his life April 19, 2007. "Greg died in my arms," his mother Polly said Friday through tears. Behind her, a phalanx of area police chiefs who promised to hunt down and arrest drunk drivers this Christmas season. Prince William Police Officer Jeremy Schenk lost two high school friends, a college …
Thor Erickson
8:58 am on Friday, May 24, 2013
We will be praying for the quick resolve of this situation and God's will in it. Father God we pray for the return Of Cameron Serafin healthy and happy. But we know sometimes father God that your answer is No. Father God help us to understand and accept your answer no matter what it might be in Jesus name Amen. more ›