The man boarded a Fredericksburg Regional Transit bus at the Stafford County Courthouse about 12:30 p.m., refused to pay, then refused to exit the bus, a sheriff’s spokeswoman states.
The man claimed to keep a gun in his pocket, she adds. Deputies surrounded the busy courthouse, the county government center and negotiated with the man on the bus. Eventually, deputies used a taser to subdue the man and arrest him, said a spokeswoman.
Police arrested one man in connection to a robbery in the 7200 block of Market Court near Manassas at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, November 25. The victim used a social media app to purchase a pair of shoes and arranged to meet someone to pick up the sneakers, police said.
While there, the suspect tried to walk away with the shoes, and a fight broke out between the suspect and the victim, police said. Then, a friend of the suspect pulled a gun, police said.
Police went to the 1000 block of Magnolia Grove Drive for a report of a man with a rifle making threats to hurt himself, police said. Officers used de-escalation tactics and then arrested him, police said.
Police took the suspect to jail and held him without bond. Officers charged Timothy Harris, 49, of Manassas with three counts of simple assault, three counts of reckless handling of a firearm, and five counts of brandishing a gun, police said.
Ann Sang Hyundai is charged with illegal burning, said Prince William County Fire Marshal Matt Smolsky. Hyundai is the new tenant of the building that housed the old Tim’s Rivershore restaurant near Dumfries.
Hyundai is due in court to answer the charge on December 20, Smolsky adds.
At 2:38 p.m., police went to a BB&T bank branch at the Wellington Shopping Center for a robbery report at 10040 Dumfries Road.
A bank employee said the robber demanded money, implied he had a weapon, and fled the scene on foot, a police spokeswoman said. Bank employees never saw a gun, police add.
Authorities were called to a home on Cynthia’s Place in the England Run neighborhood in Stafford County at 1:41 p.m. Sunday, November 28. They found a woman who had locked herself in a car following an argument with the suspect.
A dispatcher who received a 911 call about the case overheard the two arguing, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
A Prince William County woman faces murder charges in the shooting death of 49-year-old Travis Kelly Deardorff.
On Saturday, November 27, the suspect grabbed a gun from a bedroom and shot her roommate in the lower body following an argument, police said.
Stafford authorities said a woman was arrested Sunday, November 21, and charged with public intoxication after throwing several lamps from a motel window.
At 4:06 p.m. Deputy C.S. Harding responded to the Quality Inn at 28 Greenspring Drive for a disturbance. A witness reported that a woman had broken the screen out of a motel window and threw lamps outside. The woman reportedly left on foot, walking toward the Holiday Inn Express.
Police found two people suffering gunshots inside a home in Lake Ridge.
Officers were called at 3:33 a.m. to the 11500 block of Bertram Street to investigate a death. When they arrived, officers found a 36-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman suffering from gunshot wounds.
A Stafford man faces charges following a strong-armed robbery in Dumfries.
Meanwhile, police are searching for a Woodbridge man in connection to the crime.
