On Sunday, September 4, one of the men shot during the multi-agency narcotics task force operation in the 14700 block of Fox Glove Court in Dale City on Thursday, September 1, died from his injuries at an area hospital.
The second individual, identified as a 30-year-old man, remains hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries and is expected to survive.
Overlooking Fredericksburg, the Chatham Bridge, and the Rappahannock River.[/caption]
The Fredericksburg City Council has amended the criminal blight rules to align with state legislation.
The previous city codes related to criminal blight were first adopted in 2012 and were known as "drug blight" provisions. Those provisions were used to designate a building or structure blighted due to unlawful activity such as sales or the use of drugs on an individual property.
Since then, the General Assembly has made many amendments to the criminal blight rule, numbered 15.2-907 in the state code.
The ordinances were designed as a tool to protect public health, safety, and welfare in the circumstances that they addressed and apply to all properties in the Fredericksburg area. However, according to the city's Public Information Officer, Sonja Cantu, this ordinance has never actually been used in the over 10 years it has been in place.
The revised ordinance has also been expanded to include using the property in the use of commercial sex acts and the use of a firearm in the course of a criminal action.
According to the ordinance, property owners have 30 days to take action to prevent the property from being designated a criminal blight. If Fredericksburg were to take such action, it would also include the expenses of that action to be charged to the property owner. Property owners could also ask for an additional 30 days to deal with the issues.
The amended ordinance was read at the Fredericksburg City Council meeting on August 9.
Police found a car believed to be involved in a shooting on the Capital Beltway we first told you about earlier this week, burned out near Quantico.
Shortly before 4 a.m. today, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, the Prince William police Department said fire and rescue crews found a car ablaze in a wooded area of Prince William Forest Park, off Joplin Road near Quantico Marine Corps Base.
Three people were taken to a hospital after a wild police pursuit on Interstate 95 in Fairfax County.
At 10:27 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, a Virginia State Police trooper was positioned along I-395, near Route 648 in Arlington County, when he observed a northbound vehicle almost strike another northbound vehicle.
Updated 8 a.m. Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 — Police discharged their guns during a narcotics investigation in Dale City, and two men were taken to a hospital.
It’s early in the investigation, and it’s unclear if the men were shot by police.
A car slammed into a Stafford County Sheriff’s Deputy’s patrol car.
On Wednesday, August 31at 8:55 p.m. Deputy E.R. Houde was in his marked patrol vehicle stopped at a red traffic signal on southbound U.S. 1 at Aquia Park Shopping Center on Route 1 with a red Hyundai Elantra stopped behind him.
For the sixth time, the business community came together on August 24, 2022, at the Fredericksburg Expo Center, at 2371 Carl D. Silver Parkway, to honor and thank the region’s first responders for their contributions to public safety.
With over 300 first responders and community members attending the event, Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears provided the keynote address. She told those gathered that when they see footage of people smashing windows or burning businesses in other areas–and get the feeling that the world has turned upside down–they may wonder: “Is this the country I’m fighting for, is it worth it? I’m going to tell you, it’s worth it, America is worth fighting for,” she said. “What you do, first responders is not in vain. We see it and we’re glad you’re there because when you are running toward the violence, toward the fire, and we’re running the other way.”
Police say they charged a man in connection to the rapes of a family member, which took place over the course of 12 years, in the Woodbridge and Dale City areas.
Police tell us:
The Virginia State Police has identified and is now looking to locate the suspect vehicle involved in a shooting incident on Interstate 495 in Fairfax County.
The suspect vehicle is a blue, two-door 2010 Honda Civic with a Virginia license plate: TWW 9398.
A suspected intoxicated driver faces multiple charges after a multi-car crash on Route 3.
On August 28th at 5:45 p.m., a Stafford County sheriff’s deputy went to a crash on Route 3 near Ferry Road, in the Ferry Farm section of Stafford County. The investigation revealed the driver of a green Ford Fusion passed through the red traffic signal at Blue and Gray Parkway at a high rate of speed and struck a red GMC Sierra, police said.
