Prince William County police officers plan to be wearing body cameras by fall.
Chief Stephan Hudson told the Board of Supervisors his department was working through a series of procedural and legal hurdles to preparing his department for the deployment of body-worn cameras.
A 31-year-old Triangle man is wanted for strangulation.
Police said he choked a 22-year-old acquaintance during an argument.
Another convenience store in Stafford County was robbed overnight.
This time it happened along Route 17 in south Stafford, where a man walked in to a 7-Eleven at 5:22 a.m. today, displayed what the clerk thought to be a gun, and demanded cash.
Two men are each charged with two counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle.
In December, the rear window of a vehicle was shattered by a BB gun pellet, police said. A similar incident was reported a few weeks later.
Stafford County authorities are looking for someone who stole eight goats.
Here’s more in a press release from the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office: (more…)
An EMT was struck in the face by the accused while being transported to a local hospital after being found unconscious and intoxicated.
The accused is charged with assault and battery on an emergency medical services personnel.
Investigators said more that 30 shots were fired outside a North Stafford apartment complex Sunday.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the 1000 block of Providence Street, off Greenspring Drive at 12:27 a.m. for several 911 calls reporting shots fired. Two cars were damaged from the gunfire, as well as an apartment building and nearby townhouse.
Federal authorities said two men from Woodbridge intended to go to Syria to join ISIS.
One man was arrested at Richmond International Airport on Friday. The second man was arrested in Woodbridge, after he returned from driving the first suspect to the airport.
Ruth Anderson will hold a town hall meeting Monday night after a series of written threats appeared at area high schools.
The threats appeared on bathroom walls and Woodbridge, Gar-Field and Forest Park senior high schools in Woodbridge this month. All five messages that have appeared are similar and do not reference a credible threat.
Police are searching for the man who robbed a Manassas convenience store at gunpoint.
Authorities said a man walked into the In & Out Mart at 8930 Ashton Avenue and demanded cash from the clerk. The man pointed a handgun at the clerk who complied with the robber’s demands.
