STAFFORD HOME INVASIONS
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. – Another home invasion happened in North Stafford, and this time the alleged invaders were stabbed.
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Crime
A round up of crime news in Virginia’s Potomac Communities.
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FROM POLICE REPORTS:
Armed Robbery
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NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Stafford authorities tracked down a U.S. Marine at Quantico and charged him with attempted murder.
The charge, along with others, stem from an altercation between the suspect and his wife early Monday at their home in Aquia Harbour.
LAKE RIDGE, Va. — Police have a mystery on their hands in Lake Ridge after a man was found unconscious on his doorstep.
Officers were called at 3:13 a.m. Sunday to the 12800 block of Tumbling Brook Lane in Lake Ridge, inside the Rolling Brook apartment complex, after a 29-year-old man came home and began knocking loudly at his front door. Police did not say if the man had become locked out of his home. But another occupant then opened the door and found the man lying unconscious, and then called 911, according to police.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – MacArthur Taylor, 36, of Dale City, Va., pled guilty Monday to producing child pornography.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office; and Charlie T. Deane, Prince William County Chief of Police, made the announcement after the guilty plea was accepted by United States District Judge Anthony J. Trenga.
FROM POLICE REPORTS:
Aggravated Sexual Battery / Forcible Sodomy
STAFFORD, Va. — The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information from anyone who has purchased magazines from door-to-door salesmen in the last few months.
The Sheriff’s Office started receiving complaints from citizens at the end of March after citizens purchased magazine subscriptions from salesmen who came to their door. The salesmen claimed that the subscriptions would go toward wounded soldiers or could be sent as a gift or delivered directly to the house.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Police found a child alone in a Woodbridge apartment and now a woman faces charges.
Officers were called to the 1400 block of Bayside Drive at 1:50 p.m. Friday after a maintenance worker found a 1-year-old boy alone inside a home. While police were there, the woman who was supposed to be watching the child – a family member of the child’s — returned to the apartment, according to police reports.
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STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Thefts from autos is up in Stafford County prompting a new campaign aimed at preventing crime.
Stafford Sheriff Charles E. Jett announced the “Take It, Hide It, Lock It, or Lose It” campaign today, urging residents to remove valuable items from their cars or at least hide them from plain view, and then to lock their cars. The campaign comes as larcenies in Stafford have risen by 45 percent in recent months largely due to unlocked cars.