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Suspected shoplifter detained near Tower Drive

Heard on: Fairfax County Police, Fire and EMS
01:50
00:00
Units, be advised that the Lowe's call.
audio iconTheft
Tower Dr, Alexandria, VA 22306
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Officers responded to a call from a home improvement store about a suspected theft. The suspect was reported running on foot toward a nearby retail store and might have had a knife or box cutter. Units searched the area behind the store and along Tower Drive. An officer made contact with the suspect behind the store near Tower Drive, and the suspect was detained without reported damage to nearby structures. Another unit coordinated regarding some hanging wires from a structure, but there was no structural damage noted.

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