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Mother of 2 killed in Lake Ridge crash

Published October 22, 2020 at 4:34PM

Guillen

Police were called to the area of Springwoods Drive and Old Bridge Road in Lake Ridge at 6:09 a.m. today to investigate a two-vehicle crash.

Authorities found that the driver of a 2011 Ford Explorer made a left turn from Glenridge Drive onto Springwoods Drive, traveling southbound in the northbound lanes. The driver of the Ford continued in the wrong direction until the vehicle collided with the driver of a 2011 Toyota Camry, who was traveling northbound on Springwoods Drive, police state in a press release.

Va. Supreme Court rules in favor of Dumfries rescue squad, overturns win for Board of Supervisors

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 22, 2020 at 4:04PM | Updated October 22, 2020 at 5:59PM

Dumfries Triangle Rescue Squad on Graham Park Road in Dumfries.

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors does not have the power to dissolve the Dumfries-Triangle Rescue Squad, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled today.

The decision overturns a decision by a lower Prince William County Circuit Court that previously ruled in the county’s favor, that asserted the rescue squad’s “very existence is at the whim of the county,” court documents state.

Prince William Democrats deny request from police chief to urge governor to amend traffic bill; Gov. amends, anyway

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 21, 2020 at 6:16PM

Democrats on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors failed to back their chief of police after he voiced concerns about a bill that would make it impossible for his officers to stop cars that do not have a working head, tail, or brake lights.

Citing safety concerns for drivers and pedestrians, Acting Police Chief Col. Jarad Phelps on Tuesday told Supervisors that if the bill signed into law by Gov. Ralph Northam (D), the fact that a vehicle doesn’t have working lights would no longer be a good enough reason to stop a driver.

$40,000 allocated for cab companies that give rides to homeless

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 21, 2020 at 4:35PM

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors appropriated a $40,000 Community Development Block Grant from the Prince William Office of Housing and Community Development to help the county Department of Social Services to provide transportation services to the county’s homeless.

The county’s Homeless Services coordinated-entry staff will authorize the use of the funds. Those needing transportation should call 703-792-3366. Once the staff authorizes an expenditure, the cabs will take people to their destinations, and the cab companies will invoice the charges to the county.

Newly-created social justice commission will investigate Prince William police

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 20, 2020 at 6:28PM | Updated October 21, 2020 at 12:00PM

Woodbridge District Supervisor Margaret Franklin

Members of a newly created commission will investigate the Prince William County Police Department and its response to riots that occurred in the county on May 30.

The new Racial and Social Justice Commission will meet over the course of the next year and will be tasked to bring back recommendations on how to improve the hiring practices of the department, as well as the use-of-force policy.

Prince William County ignores federal criminal warrant under new noncooperation policy

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 19, 2020 at 4:37PM

Prince William County Adult Detention Center in Manassas. [Photo: Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]

Officials at the Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center released an inmate Sept. 29, who was wanted for felony charges of illegal entry, despite an active criminal warrant for his arrest.

Prince William home sales increase more than 40 percent

By Megan Dietrick

Published October 19, 2020 at 4:25PM

Realtor Association of Prince William has gathered Prince William County’s most recent housing market statistics which reflect increases in the county’s homes listed and sold.

These statistics were generated by SmartCharts, an affiliate website of Showing Time.

Prince William ready for return of teachers, students, says School Board Chairman

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 16, 2020 at 12:53PM | Updated October 16, 2020 at 1:34PM

Dr. Babur Lateef, Prince William School Board Chairman At-large [pictured in center] address a joint meeting of the School Board and Board of County Supervisors.

Dr. Babur Lateef says Prince William County Public Schools are ready to send teachers back to work and students back to class.

As Chairman of the School Board, he says the school division can easily send students at all grade levels back to class in a hybrid 50/50 model, with half of the students learning from home and the other half attending classes in person.

Dale City delegate plans to reintroduce quarantine pay bill

By Local News

Published October 13, 2020 at 2:49PM | Updated October 13, 2020 at 3:55PM

Guzman

Del. Elizabeth Guzmán (D-Fauquier, Dale City) said she is no stranger to the struggles of low-paying jobs. Guzmán said she immigrated to the United States from Peru as a single mother and worked multiple minimum wage jobs just to be able to pay rent and care for her daughter.

Guzmán has a mission to secure better financial benefits for minimum wage workers, but she said it’s not going as planned.

Taskforce ties gang members to 4 Prince William murders, major drug trafficking ring

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 13, 2020 at 11:08AM | Updated October 13, 2020 at 6:19PM

On Oct. 8, 2020, Prince William police – in a joint investigation with the Northern Virginia Gang Task Force (NVGTF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office’s Safe Streets/HIDTA Task Force-Northern Virginia – conducted an operation which charged 12 suspected gang members in connection to criminal narcotics trafficking and to the murders of four men in Prince William County in 2019.

All suspects were members of, or are otherwise connected to, the “Sitios Locos Salvatruchas” clique of the transnational criminal street gang MS-13. Based on the success of this operation, law enforcement authorities were able to dismantle this clique, which was shown to have violent tendencies including murder, and which targeted Hispanic residents through narcotics distribution.