Public Safety
Captain Wesley Thompson is retiring from the Leesburg Police Department after providing more than 32 years of public service to the Town. Thompson, a lifelong Northern Virginia resident, moved to Loudoun County with his family at the age of 10. After graduating from Simpson Middle School and Loudoun County High School, Thompson began taking classes…
03/26/21 10:00 a.m. 7 Eleven – Catoctin Corner Lost Property The complainant reported losing her wallet while shopping at the Catoctin Corner 7 Eleven. After reporting this lost property to the police, officers located the wallet in the trash can outside of the store. All contents were still inside the wallet, and subsequently…
03/19/21 4:02 p.m. 100 Block of N. 16th Street Lost Property The complainant reported sending an Indian passport to the Indian Embassy via Fed Ex sometime in December 2020. On January 27, 2021, she was notified by the Indian Embassy that the passport had not arrived. She contacted Fed Ex and according to records it…
Purcellville Lieutenant Barry Dufek was awarded the Veterans of Foreign Wars Law Enforcement Public Servant Citation at the March 23 Town Council meeting. Dufek was presented the award by Stephen Hood and Commander Ray Delpesche of the Loudoun County Post 1177 of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The citation is given to a law enforcement individual who…
The Loudoun County Health Department continues to discourage non-essential travel at this time, particularly for spring break and upcoming holidays, to slow the spread of COVID-19 and limit the potential of bringing variant forms of the coronavirus back into the community. “While we have been vaccinating more and more people each week, we are also…
As of March 19, the Loudoun County Health Department will begin expanding COVID-19 vaccination opportunities to all Virginia Department of Health Phase 1b priority groups, which include people 65 years of age, people 16-64 years of age with high-risk medical conditions, and eleven categories of front-line essential workers. The first appointments for people in the expanded 1b…
The critically injured adult who was rescued from March 12 house fire in the Farmwell Hunt Community of Ashburn has succumbed to her injuries. The deceased has been identified as 45-year-old Nylsa Clark. At approximately 4:45 a.m. on Friday, March 12, 2021, fire and rescue units from Ashburn, Moorefield, Lansdowne, Sterling, Kincora, Leesburg, and Fairfax County, responded…
Sunday, March 14, don’t forget to “spring forward” and to set your clocks ahead one hour in observance of daylight-saving time. The Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System asks that you also check the batteries in your smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and practice your home escape plan. Smoke alarms are on duty, twenty-four…
02/26/21 2:41 p.m. Town of Purcellville Mental Health Crisis Officers responded to a residence for a report of a teen having a mental health crisis. Worried that the teen was going to engage in self harm, a parent obtained an emergency custody order. The responding officer spoke with the teen and provided a transport to…
At 3:09 p.m. Thursday March 4, Virginia State Police were notified of a plane crash in the 35000 block of Charlestowne Pike in western Loudoun County community of Hillsboro. With the assistance of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, the aircraft was located in a wooded area of a field. The 1979 fixed-wing, single-engine Beech aircraft…