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Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Police Search for Intoxicated Suspect

The search is over after Leesburg Police and LCSO arrested Elliot Lansdown, a black male wanted on assault charges after leaving the Cornwall ER.

 

Personnel with the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and the Leesburg Police Department conducted a search this morning for a man who fled from the Emergency Room at the Cornwall Campus of Inova Loudoun Hospital, in Leesburg. 

Elliot D. Lansdown, a black male, was involved in a crash on Route 15 around 5:48 a.m. on Friday and was believed to be intoxicated. After the crash he was taken to the emergency room where he became combative with staff and fled the hospital. 
 
Residents were asked to stay in their homes and lock their doors until the subject had been located. Lansdown is wanted on charges out of Maryland.

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