Crime & Safety
Police: Two Assaults, Robberies of Pedestrians Saturday and Sunday
Incidents took place on Camellia Drive and Sacramento Drive, just off Richmond Highway.
Fairfax County Police report Wednesday two separate cases of assault and robbery in the Mount Vernon area over the weekend:
ROBBERY, 2800 block of Camellia Drive, Saturday, 11:30 p.m. Two men were walking when five to six suspects approached them. Several suspects displayed handguns and assaulted the victims. The suspects took cash and property from the victims and fled on foot. The victims received non-life threatening injuries. The suspects were described as black males.
ROBBERY, Sacramento Drive/Village Green Court, Sunday, 2:20 a.m. Two men were walking when three suspects approached them. The suspects assaulted and took cash from the victims. The victims were transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The suspects were described as black males.
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