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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Police are looking for a man suspected of exposing himself outside a Noodles and Co. restaurant in Woodbridge on Thursday.

Warrants were obtained for 57-year-old David Lynn Scriven , of no fixed address, after someone inside the restaurant called 911 and said a man exposed himself to a group of women sitting a table across from him. The man left the scene before police arrived, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.


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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A teenager suspected of robbing a currency exchange store at Potomac Mills mall on Thursday is behind bars.

Police said they obtained a warrant and searched the home of a 17-year-old boy from Woodbridge following the robbery inside the popular shopping mall. Police said the suspect walked up to the Currency Exchange International kiosk just before 11 a.m., passed a note demanding cash, and then fled the scene. No injuries were reported.


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MANASSAS, Va. — Richard D. Sword appeared in the Manassas Courthouse yet again in the ongoing saga of the Sword trial. Richard Sword and his brother Gerry were arrested on murder charges in late 2012 for the death of 44-year-old Anthony Bailey of Manassas.

In February, the charge was reduced to tampering, transporting, secreting, concealing or altering a dead body after the medical examiner’s report showed that Bailey died from a mixture of ethanol, Paroxetine (an anti-depressant), and Benedryl.


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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Police say they have their suspect in a photo, and now they need your help in bringing him to justice.

A 21-year-old woman told police was approached by a man at a Walmart store at 17041 Jefferson Davis Highway near Dumfries who exposed himself to her at 7:50 a.m. Tuesday. Police officers arrived on in the area but were unable to find the man after a search of the area.


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MANASSAS, Va. — A woman was raped by a man wielding a BB gun, police said.

It happened on Saturday after a 21-year-old woman from Manassas picked up an known acquaintance who directed her to drive to the area of Par Drive and Vint Hill Road in Nokesville. Once there, the man pulled out the gun – later determined to be a BB gun – and raped the woman, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.


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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A Woodbridge man on Virginia’s sex offender registry faces charges once more, stemming from an incident inside a government building.

Police called to the Ferlazzo Government Building off U.S. 1 in Woodbridge spoke to a 43-year-old woman who told them she saw an unknown man expose himself to her, and then proposition her for sex. Officers were able to locate the suspect outside of the building, police spokesman Jonathan Perok said.


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STAFFORD, Va. — Authorities don’t know what led to a fight between two young men, but now one is dead and other faces an involuntary manslaughter charge.

Kwesi Tyre Franklin, 20, of Stafford County, died after a confrontation with an acquaintance on Thursday, May 30. Police and rescue personnel were called to the area of Malvern Hill Court just after 10 p.m. where they found Franklin suffering from an apparent head wound. He was not able to speak to rescue workers, and he was taken to a local hospital where he later died June 1.


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DALE CITY, Va. — A woman claiming to know a resident of a Dale City home led to a robbery and home invasion on Monday.

The woman knocked on the door of the home in the 3800 block of Corona Lane in Dale City at 10:21 p.m. She said she knew someone who lived inside, and once she was let by the person who answered the door, two men appeared behind her and forced their way inside. One of the men showed a handgun and demanded cash, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.


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MANASSAS, Va. — When police arrived to this Manassas house after a report of a burglary, they smelled something burning.

Officers were called to a home in the 8900 block of Weir Street for a report of a burglary about 1 p.m. Wednesday. They found a sliding glass door shattered and then found a plastic dish that had been left on a hot stove, said Manassas police Sgt. Lowell Nevill.


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