Taxi Driver Assault Leads to Arrest in Fairfax: Police

FAIRFAX, VA — Strike up a conversation with almost any veteran taxi driver, and he or she, when asked, will tell you they've seen just about everything with their various fares. From the bizarre to the bad. Goes with the territory.

On the flip side, there are those fledgling cabbies-in-training who haven't seen just about everything and have little or no knowledge of the so-called territory and the myriad travails it can provide.

So it went Tuesday night in the 96200 block of Fairfax Boulevard at the Circle Sunoco gas station, according to Fairfax Police.

Shortly after 11 p.m., police reported to the scene and determined a man had refused to get out of taxi, had grabbed and pulled the hair of a driver trainee and was inhaling from a can of compressed gas.

David Lee Yonkman, 40, of the 9800 block of Virginia Center Boulevard in Vienna, was arrested and charged with assault and battery and inhaling a chemical substance to become intoxicated.

No word on whether the victim still wants to be a cab driver.

Also included in Wednesday's Fairfax crime report:

Incident / Case #…

Larceny
16-19258
3965 Jermantown Road / 7-Eleven – On November 1 at 5:35 AM an employee reported that an unknown male subject had taken scratch-off lottery tickets from the store without paying, then fled from the area on foot. The Patrol Division is investigating the case.

Identity Theft
16-19299
3500 Block of Burrows Avenue – On November 1 at 3:44 PM the resident reported that on October 31 unknown person(s) had used his credit card information to make an unauthorized purchase in California.

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