Crime

They were looking for a suspect wanted in Stafford County for attempted malicious wounding and conspiracy. First Sergeant D.F. Purcell, Jr. observed a suspect leave the hotel and travel south on Route 1. With an arrest team in place, deputies stopped the suspect in front of the courthouse.

The suspect was removed from the vehicle and arrested. Deputy F.A. Martinez also went to the scene with K-9 Mija, and the dog found Pringles chips can that had been hot glued, containing an array of suspected controlled substances, a Stafford sheriff’s spokesman said.

Now authorities charge he misused the plate and possessed prescription drugs.

A press release from the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office:

Authorities said they found the suspect who fled the crash scene hiding near a creek early this morning.

This morning at 1:25 a.m., deputies found an overturned car the 100 block of Shelton Shop Road in North Stafford. Authorities said that a Tesla had just pulled out of a driveway when it was. The impact caused Tesla to strike a tree.

A 13-year-old middle school girl faces charges of making death threats to her classmates.

On Wednesday, February 2, at 10:49 p.m., officers were called to investigate a potential threat toward students at Rippon Middle School at 15101 Blackburn Road in Woodbridge earlier that evening.

On Thursday, February 3 at 9:48 p.m., Deputy T.A. Vasquez went to a Sheetz gas station at 10 Washington Square Plaza for a report of auto theft. The victim said he was in the vehicle with an acquaintance arguing.

When the acquaintance threw his cell phone out of the vehicle, the victim stopped at Sheetz to use a phone. While in the store, the acquaintance drove off in his Honda Accord, a sheriff’s spokesman said.