Police report three assaults on officers in corridor area

Rodjae Gatlin, Kevin Anderson, and George Collins are all accused of assaulting law enforcement officers.

Three people have been arrested since Saturday for assaulting police officers in separate incidents in the Richmond Highway area, including one case where a man allegedly approached officers with a knife.

There were no serious injuries reported in any of the incidents, which were listed in Monday’s and Tuesday’s editions of the Fairfax Police’s Daily Blotter.

The first incident happened on Saturday when police responding to a shoplifting call in the 7900 block of Richmond Highway were allegedly assaulted by a woman who became combative when officers detained her. Rodjae Gatlin, 21, was charged with grand larceny and assault on law enforcement. No officers were injured.

On Monday, officers responding to two different calls ended up in confrontations with citizens, according to police. First, officers responding to a report of a man possibly trying to harm himself on Beekman Place on Monday afternoon reportedly found themselves intervening with a man believed to be having a drug overdose. Kevin Anderson, 52, allegedly resisted officers’ attempts to take him into custody for a mental health evaluation and assaulted them.

Anderson, 52, was charged with three counts of assault on a law enforcement officer and taken to the hospital for the possible overdose. An unspecified number of officers were treated for non life-threatening injuries.

Later on Monday afternoon, police were allegedly confronted by a man with a knife while responding to a call in the 3300 block of Wessynton Way. The suspect, George Collins of Woodbridge, had allegedly grabbed a 64-year-old woman and thrown her cell phone. When police located Collins in a nearby home, he allegedly pulled a knife, at which time the officers exited the house. He eventually left the house without the knife and was arrested, police said.

Collins, 49, was charged with assault, destruction of property and assault on a law enforcement officer.