Police find owner of home where dead cats were found
Fairfax County police have located the owner of a Herndon home where dozens of dead cats were found.
Police said the remains of up to 30 cats were found Tuesday at 1318 Summerfield Drive. The home’s owner, whom police identified only as a 50-year-old woman, was not there, but has since been located, Fairfax County police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell said Thursday afternoon.
The woman has not been charged with any crime, Caldwell said. She said police are continuing to investigate and figure out why the cats were left alone for so long. It wasn’t immediately known when the woman was last at the home, she said.
Caldwell wouldn’t say where the woman was located. Police said they don’t believe anyone else was living at the home.
Fairfax police help dispose of flags
Fairfax County police are helping people dispose of worn American flags.
Flags that are too damaged or soiled for use should be destroyed by burning, according to the U.S. Code. Fairfax County police said police stations are now accepting worn flags so the flags can be disposed of properly.
People can drop off the flags in bins in the front lobby of any Fairfax police station. The department’s honor guard members will dispose of the flags.
Man gets 2 years for threatening Cantor
A man was sentenced to two years in prison for threatening House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.
Prosecutors said 38-year-old Norman LeBoon, of Philadelphia, created a YouTube video last March threatening to injure and kill Cantor. The video said Cantor was “a Lucifer” and would “receive my bullets in your office.”
Emily Babay
