Public Safety
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an assault of a woman who was walking in Sterling on Friday evening. The victim, an adult female, was walking in the area of Magnolia Road and Locomotive Terrace around 9 p.m. when an unknown male approached her. The suspect grabbed the victim from behind and pushed her to the…
Detectives from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office have arrested an Ashburn man who sexually assaulted a child who was known to him. Leon T. Bressert, age 57 of Ashburn, was charged today with aggravated sexual battery and taking indecent liberties with a child. Bressert remains held at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center on no…
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…