MURDER CASES AT 10-YEAR LOW
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — In 2011, police in Prince William County investigated and solved three murder cases – the fewest number of murders in the county in 10 years.
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Crime
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — A teenager was stabbed early Saturday morning in Stafford County.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the area of Theodore Street and Lyons Boulevard in the England Run subdivision at 12:19 p.m. for a report of a large fight that involved 16 people. Deputies surrounded the area and found teenagers fleeing the scene, and then stopped them to learn more about the fight, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
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STAFFORD, Va. — Authorities said a car drove right into the path of oncoming traffic on U.S. 1, and then it was time to pull over the driver and see what was up.
The driver turned right onto U.S. 1 north from Jason Lane in Stafford, about 6 a.m. Monday. A sheriff’s deputy happened to be in the area and began following the car once he saw the driver ignore a stop sign at U.S. 1 and Jason Lane. The driver continued north about a half mile to Coal Landing Road.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Two men from Portsmouth face drug charges in Stafford County.
Deputies were called to a McDonalds on Va. 610 at 2 a.m. Sunday for a report of a drunken driver. A deputy responded and found a car matching the description of that given by a 911 caller and then went to talk to the occupants, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
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DALE CITY, Va. — Police in Prince William County arrested two people in connection to a string of robberies on April 4.
At 10:42 p.m. in the 14300 block of Wrangler Lane, off Darbydale Avenue at the Dale Forest Apartments in Dale City, a 15-year-old boy told police he was approached by two mn who threatened him and demanded in shoes and jacket valued at $120, and then fled in a dark SUV once they got them, according to police documents. The victim was not injured.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Little is known about the suspect authorities in Stafford County say they have in custody following a school bus fire last week.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Stephanie Lynn Schwab, 26, of Manassas, Va., admitted today to carrying out three bank robberies and to stealing or carjacking three cars used in the robberies, in addition to participating in a separate heroin distributing ring operating out of Manassas.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Ronald T. Hosko, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Criminal Division, made the announcement after the plea was accepted by United States District Judge T. S. Ellis III.
By Claire Porter
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – Twenty people have been arrested in Virginia and 20 others elsewhere in an undercover investigation targeting online child predators and child pornographers, officials announced today.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A Woodbridge woman was held without bond and another man wanted in connection cocaine and gun charges.
Detectives from the Prince William Count Street Crimes Unit on Monday attempted to make a traffic stop in the area of Eastbourne Drive and Potomac Club Parkway, near Potomac Town Center in Woodbridge. Before they could stop him, the driver threw the car into reverse and slammed into a police cruiser, according to police reports.
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STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — A new video shows two males who are suspected of setting fire to a school bus fleeing the scene of the crime.