Updated 3:30 p.m. — Police in Manassas put in nine hours working an active investigation in the 8500 block of Bruton Parish Court near UVA Prince William Medical Center.
Police now tell us they were investigating a suspicious death. Investigators say they didn’t know the cause of death and released no other information.
Just before 1 a.m., crews arrived to find a fire in the garage.
Smoke detectors altered the home’s occupants to the blaze. Crews quickly extinguished the fire, said fire and rescue Assitant Chief Matt Smolsky.
Authorities said a Washington, D.C. woman walked into a Sheetz off Courthouse Road in Stafford County, sprayed an employee with aerosol, and then made off with stolen goods.
At 4:52 p.m. Wednesday, October 19, Stafford sheriff’s deputies were called to the gas station at 15 Wyche Road. A store employee who received the spray of aerosol feminine deodorant to the face tried to stop the woman, police said.
Updated October 21, 2022 — The Prince William County Police Department says Justin Allen Tothill, 34, is safe.
The department reported Tothill went missing near his home on Old Dominion Hunt Drive near Manassas on Wednesday, October 19, at 4:30 p.m. He is believed to be missing under voluntary circumstances and may need assistance which qualified him as being endangered, police said.
Police in Newport News found a man wanted for failing to appear before a judge in Prince William County and who is now charged with escaping police custody in Woodbridge.
Police in Newport News nabbed the suspect on Sunday, October 16.
A 24-year-old man is charged in the shooting deaths of at least three people who lived in a home in Dale City.
The city of Manassas Park is hoping to quiet down some of its noisiest cars.
The city is taking advantage of a recent change in state code to expand its ban on modified exhaust systems that can make ear-splitting noise.
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.
