The coronavirus pandemic has not only changed our lives but also local police crime statistics, too.
In this post, we’re taking a look at a few key stats and comparing the changes between February and March 2020.
Crime
Illegal drugs made their way inside the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Stafford County, and now multiple inmates face charges.
A joint investigation by the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit (SIU) and the Rappahannock Regional Jail’s Gang Unit has been investigating numerous individuals who were involved in attempting to have illegal drugs smuggled into the jail through the mail.
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The Prince William County Fire Marshal says a 19-year-old man attacked another with a flaming log.
Fire and rescue crews were called to the 1300 block of East Longview Drive in Woodbridge in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 5, 2020.
Police in Manassas are looking for three men they say walked in a Home Depot and stole tools.
It happened at the big box hardware store at 8805 Liberia Avenue on March 20. The men made off with the tools and then got away in a black four-door sedan with chrome trim, said city police spokeswoman Sarah Mahoney.
A Dumfries man is in custody following a shooting in Dale City.
Police were called to the 12800 block of Island House Loop for a report of shots fired, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
Stafford authorities say there’s been an uptick in car break-ins in recent days.
The SCSO would like to remind residents to lock your doors and your vehicles. We have seen a recent uptick in reports regarding larcenies from vehicles. Read more here: https://t.co/DXS56a0n5P #CrimePrevention pic.twitter.com/fVVZHVhRoy
Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Sunoco gas station Someone after someone began smashing the merchandise.
Authorities were called at 1:46 p.m. Monday, March 30, 2020, to 488 Garrisonville Road in North Stafford. The owner of the gas station told them that after the man ransacked the place, he sped away in an older model white sedan, according to Stafford sheriff’s spokeswoman Amanda Vicinanzo.
You wouldn’t break a guy’s glasses, would you?
Police said that’s what happened in a Woodbridge shopping center when a fight broke out near a Safeway in the 1900 block of Daniel Stuart Square in Woodbridge.
An unruly customer now faces disorderly conduct charges after police pulled him out of an area McDonald’s restaurant.
A manager of a McDonald’s at 2862 Jefferson Davis Highway in North Stafford walked up to a county sheriff’s deputy car parked in the restaurant’s parking lot on Thursday, March 26, 2020, at 4:02 p.m.
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Police in Manassas said someone walked onto the lot of Shannon Auto Repair and made off with an SUV.
The person in these photos went to the repair shop at 8739 Commerce Court in Manassas at 1:05 a.m. March 21, 2020, and stole a 2008 burgundy Chevrolet Silverado, police said