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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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A Woodbridge man faces charges in a fatal crash on Virginia roads over the Memorial Day weekend – one of seven deadly crashes that occurred on state roads.

Thomas J. Smith, of Woodbridge, faces reckless driving charges in a crash that occurred early Saturday morning on Interstate 95 near Lorton. Rashid K. Humphreys, 30, of Yonkers, N.Y., was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the car. He was taken to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, Virginia State Police reported.


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WOODBRIDGE, Va. –– Officers were called Wednesday after a mob beat up a 24-year-old man.

Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok said the victim went to the area of Featherstone Road and Sycamore Street in Woodbridge to meet a group of men. While there during the early morning hours of Wednesday, the men assaulted the victim, knocked him to the ground, went through his pockets but didn’t take anything, and then fled, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.


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MANASSAS, Va. — A police officer tried to sever several warrants for a woman in Manassas and was nearly run over, police said.

It happened at 2 p.m. Wednesday in front of a home in the 8900 block of Traveller Street in Manassas. The officer walked up to the woman, who is now the suspect in the case, who was sitting inside of her car, and tried to serve a warrant. As the officer approached, the woman put the car in reverse nearly striking the cop, police said. The woman stopped the car and the cop tried to approach her a second time, and this time reached through the window of the car and grabbed the woman. She then put the car in drive, knocking the officer off balance, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.


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Kermit Gosnell, the man who ran the “house of horrors” abortion clinic in Pennsylvania was found guilty on three of four charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of four babies, and on an involuntary manslaughter charge for the death of a Woodbridge woman.

The verdict was handed down today in a Philadelphia courtroom.


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WOODBRIDGE, Va. – A homeless woman was raped while inside of her tent in Woodbridge.

Police said the victim was asleep at an homeless encampment in the area of Potomac Mills Road and Town Center Drive at when a man she knew entered the tent and raped her at 4:11 a.m. The man then fled the area and then turned himself into police a short time later.


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