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Friday, January 11, 2013

Alleged Alexandria Robbers Included in New FBI Website

The agency is launching a national website highlighting unidentified bank robbers from around the country.

The FBI has launched a national website dedicated to identifying unknown bank robbers from the FBI’s 56 field offices, and it includes several who have allegedly committed crimes in Alexandria. The website, bankrobbers.fbi.gov, allows the public to search by the unknown robber’s nickname, robbery location and the date of the robbery. Each bank robbery is plotted on a Google map of the United States that can be viewed down to the street level. The FBI wants to remove the threat of violence from financial institutions in our region by identifying and holding accountable those who commit these robberies, the agency said in a news release. A search of the database lists two City of Alexandria robberies – the TD Bank on S. Washington Street in …

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Council Pursuing FBI Headquarters to Relocate to Alexandria

Victory Center on Eisenhower Avenue considered an "emerging possibility."

Could the FBI move its headquarters to Alexandria? On Tuesday during a City Council meeting, Mayor Bill Euille asked city staff what could be done to put Alexandria in contention to land the agency. The General Services Administration announced last week that it is reviewing sites for a new FBI headquarters. U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th) and several other local lawmakers then sent a letter to the GSA administrator urging him to consider Northern Virginia. Euille said Tuesday that Moran mentioned the vacant Victory Center on Eisenhower Avenue as a possible location for the FBI at a meeting of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties in Tysons Corner. “Where are we and what can we do to be in line to be considered to be one…

Michael Josef Basl

5:30 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012

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