Ann Sang Hyundai is charged with illegal burning, said Prince William County Fire Marshal Matt Smolsky. Hyundai is the new tenant of the building that housed the old Tim's Rivershore restaurant near Dumfries.
Hyundai is due in court to answer the charge on December 20, Smolsky adds.
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The Stafford County Board of Supervisors plans to use funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act to hire two new full-time employees and to purchase new equipment for the county sheriff's office.
The county expects the Federal Government to give it $14.8 million in ARPA funds, the second installment of ARPA cash for Stafford. The county plans to use about $580,000 for new employees and gear for the sheriff's office.
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Gov. Ralph Northam replaced the former Prince William County school teacher with Fran Bradford, deputy secretary. Qarni accepted a new job as Managing Director at Temple University's Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice in Philadelphia.
"Former Secretary Qarni has served Virginia's students well, and I am proud of the work we have done together to support public education and raise teacher pay," states Northam in a press release. "I wish him the best of luck in his new role."
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At least one person stole cash from a bank in Manassas today.
At 2:38 p.m., police went to a BB&T bank branch at the Wellington Shopping Center for a robbery report at 10040 Dumfries Road.
A bank employee said the robber demanded money, implied he had a weapon, and fled the scene on foot, a police spokeswoman said. Bank employees never saw a gun, police add.
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An internal investigation into a claim of racism hurled at the Prince William County Police Department by the husband of one of the county's top elected leaders is unfounded, say authorities.
The police department launched the investigation when, on May 24, 2021, Rev. Cozy Bailey, President of the county's NAACP chapter, said an officer used a racial slur after addressing officers at a police department annual meeting in September 2017.
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[Updated 7:30 p.m.] Two major incidents at opposite ends of Stafford County kept fire crews busy.
A fire broke out today at a middle-row townhouse on Coventry Court.
Rescue crews rushed to the scene of the blaze, reported about 2:30 p.m. The fire displaced two adults and three children.
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Deputies used a taser during the arrest of a shoeless man.
Authorities were called to a home on Cynthia's Place in the England Run neighborhood in Stafford County at 1:41 p.m. Sunday, November 28. They found a woman who had locked herself in a car following an argument with the suspect.
A dispatcher who received a 911 call about the case overheard the two arguing, a sheriff's spokesman said.
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A Prince William County woman faces murder charges in the shooting death of 49-year-old Travis Kelly Deardorff.
On Saturday, November 27, the suspect grabbed a gun from a bedroom and shot her roommate in the lower body following an argument, police said.
The victim later died at a local hospital. After the shooting, the suspect summoned emergency services, and when they arrived, police arrested her at about 5:50 p.m.
Lisa Gaye Myers, 56, of 13500 block of Bradford Lane near Independent Hill, is charged with 2nd-degree murder, police said. The woman remains jailed.
