Police Nab Two Suspects in Area Home Burglaries

The Fairfax County police announced Thursday that they had apprehended two Manassas-area men who attempted to break into a pair of homes in Chantilly on Thursday morning.

The police did not release the names of the suspects, saying that detectives planned to obtain arrest warrants for them on Thursday evening. Both are in their 20s and were tracked with the help of Chantilly residents who called police Thursday morning with tips of suspicious people in the area.

The police detectives are looking into the possibility that the two men have committed a series of burglaries in recent weeks in Fairfax County. So far, they have linked the suspects to a burglary and attempted burglary on Thursday morning in Chantilly, and four other burglaries in western Fairfax County, police said.

Originally, the police responded to a report of a burglary at around 10 a.m. Thursday at a home in the 15000 block of Oakmere Place, near Pleasant Valley Road. The residents heard a loud crash in their basement, ran outside, then back in the house and saw two people running away from the home. They discovered their basement door had been kicked in, police said.

The police sent patrol officers, a police dog and a helicopter to search the area for the two suspects.

Shortly afterwards, they were called to another attempted burglary nearby, in the 4400 block of Cub Run Road. The homeowners had arrived home and interrupted the suspects, who were attempting to get inside their home, police said.

The suspects fled in a vehicle, but police officers were already in the vicinity, and apprehended the two men at the intersection of Braddock Road and Pleasant Valley Road. They were taken to the Sully District Police Station in Chantilly for questioning.