On October 23, Michael Whitted, 33, of Stafford, was indicted at a special grand jury hearing in Stafford County Circuit Court.
He was indicted on three counts of rape and two counts of carnal knowledge of a teenager between 13 and 15 years old, according to the Stafford sheriff’s office.
A Triangle resident is charged after police found a 9-year-old boy riding in the back of a car.
On October 25 at 3:19 p.m., officers were called to the area of Mine and Van Buren roads in Dumfries to investigate a report of child neglect. The caller told police that, while stopped at the intersection, they observed the trunk of the vehicle in front of them open and a juvenile inside.
A woman who treated more than 100 patients while pretending to be a psychologist in Stafford County was ordered Friday to serve 11 years in prison.
Lisa Bartosch has been sentenced to 51 years in prison with 13 years and 9 months suspended for the 2017 murder of her husband, Scott Bartosch, Jr.
She was sentenced today during a hearing in Stafford County Circuit Court.
Police were called to the area of Springwoods Drive and Old Bridge Road in Lake Ridge at 6:09 a.m. today to investigate a two-vehicle crash.
Authorities found that the driver of a 2011 Ford Explorer made a left turn from Glenridge Drive onto Springwoods Drive, traveling southbound in the northbound lanes. The driver of the Ford continued in the wrong direction until the vehicle collided with the driver of a 2011 Toyota Camry, who was traveling northbound on Springwoods Drive, police state in a press release.
Authorities say they now have a man in custody who is tried a grab a woman outside of a North Stafford Target store.
The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest on Tuesday, October 21. It said that on October 1 at 4:21 p.m., deputies were called to the store at 1090 Stafford Market Place for a report of an attempted abduction.
On Oct. 8, 2020, Prince William police – in a joint investigation with the Northern Virginia Gang Task Force (NVGTF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office’s Safe Streets/HIDTA Task Force-Northern Virginia – conducted an operation which charged 12 suspected gang members in connection to criminal narcotics trafficking and to the murders of four men in Prince William County in 2019.
All suspects were members of, or are otherwise connected to, the “Sitios Locos Salvatruchas” clique of the transnational criminal street gang MS-13. Based on the success of this operation, law enforcement authorities were able to dismantle this clique, which was shown to have violent tendencies including murder, and which targeted Hispanic residents through narcotics distribution.
A body was found this morning at the American Recycling Center on Residency Road, located on the border of Prince William County and Manassas.
The body was taken to a medical examiner for identification.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Walmart in North Stafford after a store employee said someone was seen clearing off the shelves in the electronics section of the store. This, and other incidents, are included in today’s Stafford sheriff’s office report:
100 block of Butler Road, 10/10, 6:39 p.m. The victims reported they left their vehicle parked in the area at 4:15 p.m. When they returned to the vehicle at 6:20 p.m., they discovered the vehicle’s back passenger window had been broken. Two purses containing cash and credit cards were reported stolen.
Prince William police report a masked man smashed a business on Sudley Road outside Manassas. The details of this incident, and others, are included in today’s report from the Prince William County Police Department:
Commercial Burglary – On October 9 at 6:01AM, officers responded to the Smokey Shope Hookah & Tea House located at 8128 Sudley Rd. in Manassas (20109) to investigate an alarm activation. Upon arrival, officers observed the glass front door was damaged. Video surveillance footage revealed that a masked man smashed the glass door before entering the business. The suspect was then observed fleeing on foot prior to police arrival. Paper products and an undisclosed amount of money were reported missing.
