Police are searching for a Fredericksburg man who they say ignored commands to stop his car, drove off, and grazed two officers.
On Thursday, October 13, at 12:44 a.m., police were on patrol in the area of Kilmer Lane and Jurgensen Drive in Triangle when they saw two men inside a suspicious car.
On Monday, October 10 at 1:31 a.m., officers responded to the Shell service station located at 17250 Dumfries Road to investigate a suspicious vehicle.
When officers arrived, they approached the vehicle and saw the driver sleeping while exposing himself. Officers made contact with the driver and detained him.
On Monday, October 10, at 11:25 p.m., officers were called to the 14100 block of Richmond Highway, near a Pep Boys store in Woodbridge, to investigate a death. Police got third-party information about the possibility of a body in the woods.
Police checked the area but came up empty. However, they continued to look at other locations nearby and encountered an individual who directed them to a shed behind a business, where they found a man’s body and drug paraphernalia.
The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office announced on social media that Taylor has signed on as a deputy in its Field Operations Division. His first day on the job was Sept. 28.
Fire crews were dispatched to Virginia Flooring Supply at 8683 Virginia Meadows Drive in Gainesville for a report of a commercial warehouse structure. When crews arrived, a second alarm was requested due to the conditions and building size, said Prince William fire and rescue Assistant Chief Matt Smolsky.
Crews found the fire was located inside the warehouse and extinguished the flames. The building sustained moderate damage. No injuries were reported.
Updated 11:30 a.m. — One man died after a rollover crash on Horner Road in Woodbridge.
The unidentified man was trapped inside his 2021 Hyundai Sonata when it overturned in the 1600 block of Horner Road near Kilby Elementary School at about 9:50 p.m. Monday, October 10, 2022.
On October 7, the School Resource Officer (SRO) assigned to Rippon Middle School, at 15101 Blackburn Road in Woodbridge, concluded an investigation into an assault that occurred in a classroom on September 22.
The investigation revealed during class, a male student made a homophobic slur towards the victim, another 13-year-old male student, before riping and removing the child’s facemask.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors will hold a work session on Wednesday, October 12, to discuss increasing the starting salary for the county’s public safety employees.
The move comes after the Virginia State Police increased its starting pay for troopers working in Northern Virginia to nearly $66,000, about 28% higher.
A dump truck spilled its load onto Dale Boulevard today.
Emergency crews were called to the crash near Route 1 at about 1:45 p.m. No one was injured.
Police still don’t know which bullets struck and killed 19-year-old Jaden Malik Carter during a hellfire exchange of shots during a police drug sting-turned robbery.
What they do know: Carter had a stolen, illegally modified, nearly fully-automatic gun with an extended magazine on him when he was shot in Dale City on September 1, 2022.
