Update
Police released the names of the two drowning victims from Montclair.
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Crime
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — It appears someone is posing as the daughter of the owner of a house listed for rent in the Dumfries area, police said.
A Maryland woman responded to an ad on Craigslist on Saturday. She met with a woman who said she was the daughter of the owner of the house, and then the victim gave the stranger more than $1,700 — enough for the security deposit and first month’s rent, police said.
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MANASSAS, Va. — Two men distracted an employee of a cell phone store, and then a third took an iPad right off the victim’s desk.
That’s how a heist went down at a Verizon cell phone store on Market Circle near Prince William Parkway in Manassas, police said.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — One man is in custody today after home invasion in Stafford County.
Maury Edward Williams, 18, of Scotts Ford Lane in Fredericksburg, was arrested without incident at 12:43 p.m. in the area of Cardinal Forest Drive and Bellamy Lane in south Stafford County.
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MANASSAS, Va. — Police at Northern Virginia Community College in Manassas are investigating a sexual assault that took place in the college’s parking lot.
Officers on Thursday were notified about the attack, which happened at the campus’ B1 metered parking lot at 2 p.m. Tuesday, where the victim of the assault had been walking.
DUMFRIES, Va. — Police say an arranged meeting between a man and a woman at a Dumfries hotel room led to an armed robbery.
The 23-year-old female victim in the case told police she arranged to meet a man she didn’t know at a Comfort Inn on Old Stage Coach Road. Police were called there at 12:10 a.m. Wednesday.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Police say they’ve caught the man who allegedly exposed himself to patrons at Noodles & Company restaurant in Woodbridge.
David Lynn Scriven, 57, was arrested Wednesday on charges of indecent exposure. He was found at a nearby shopping plaza and was arrested without incident, police said.
DALE CITY, Va. — A police detective was hit by a car after witnessing a drug deal in Dale City, police said.
It happened at a 7-Eleven store at 7001 Dale Boulevard,near Hoadly Road, on Friday. Detectives from Prince William police’s Street Crimes Unit witnesses a drug transaction in the parking lot pf o o f the store between the driver of a car and another person. When the detective approached the car, the driver put the car into reverse and backed it up, then stopped, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
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Update
After reviewing security footage at the CVS Pharmacy robbed at gunpoint this morning, police say the suspect’s vehicle appears to be a late model Chevrolet Camaro, not a Ford Mustang as first suspected.
DALE CITY , Va. — A man with a gun walked into a Dale City pharmacy today, used a gun to steal pills, and made off in an easily recognizable car.
MANASSAS, Va. — The man behind those threatening notes left on doorsteps in homes in Manassas has turned himself in, police said.
A 21-year-old male whose name police will not release was suffers a mental disability, and is suspected of leaving threatening notes on city doorsteps on December 2012 and again in March.