Woodbridge, Va. — A burglary in Woodbridge on Monday prompted a police SWAT team into action.
Officers were called at 1:45 p.m. to the 3300 block of Ladino Court, near Cardinal Drive, for a report of a burglary at townhome, and found a ladder set against a second floor window. Officers learned there were several firearms inside the home and then took up positions around the townhouse.
The intruder broke the lock to a fence at the business and went inside a yard where vehicles were parked and stole 17 car batteries, 27 aluminum wheels and other parts, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
Home broken into
Sheriff’s authorities are investigating a break in to a home on Sunnyside Drive in North Stafford.
Woodbridge, Va. — A 16-year-old girl apparently came from Mexico to Woodbridge and engaged in a sexual relationship.
Police were called to the 3400 block of Brookville Lane in Woodbridge on Saturday where they learned the 16-year-old met the suspect on a social media site and then came to live with him in Woodbridge late last month.
Woodbridge, Va. — Prince William police surrounded a home on Ladino Court in Woodbridge late this morning for a report of a burglary in the area.
The neighborhood sits just off Cardinal Drive, about a mile from Fannie Fitzgerald Elementary School on Benita Fitzgerald Drive.
Woodbridge, Va. — A man was accidentally shot in the leg just blocks from a Prince William County police station.
On Friday, officers were called to the 15800 block of Donald Curtis Drive after the victim called 911 and said he’d been shot in the leg by someone he knew.
The victim was driving west on Va. 630 toward Shelton Shop Road about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday when a Jeep pulled up behind the woman and began flashing its lights. The woman came to the intersection at Shelton Shop Road and turned left, and the Jeep followed her. The victim turned right onto Walt Wittman Boulevard in the Shelton Run subdivision, said Stafford sheriff’s department spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The victim stopper her car and the Jeep pulled up behind her. The woman got out and walked up the Jeep and saw a male in the driver’s seat and woman, who was crying hysterically, in the passenger’s seat screaming “why are you doing this,” said Kennedy.
North Stafford, Va. — A woman said a pickup driver pulled a gun on her and now two men face charges.
The victim was in the left turn lane of Highpoint Boulevard at Mine Road in North Stafford when a white pickup pulled up beside her. The driver of truck glared at the victim, brandished a gun and then pointed it at her, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Target store at Stafford Marketplace off Va. 610 in North Stafford at 3:09 p.m. Wednesday, after the store’s loss prevention officer reported seeing a man place a Bose surround sound system in his cart and head to the back of the store.
The same man fit the description of someone who just two days earlier at a Target store in south Stafford put a Bose system in his cart, and left with it through a rear employee entrance. The man placed it in a white Ford Ranger pickup with a ladder rack and left, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The owner of a shop at 1080 Jefferson Davis Highway in Stafford called authorities Tuesday and said the front door had been opened and several air conditioning units, two refrigerators, a washer and dryer, and a metal prep table had been stolen. The man left his shop Friday and came back Tuesday to find the items missing, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
While the intruders were inside they managed to break other doors, as well as break open another air conditioning unit and remove its parts, said Kennedy.
Dumfries, Va. — Police were called to investigate a case of a sexual assault involving a six-year-old boy.
On Monday, Prince William police received word of a sex assault that took place in a neighborhood in the 3000 block of Pony Ridge Turn, just off River Heritage Boulevard behind a Walmart store, on April 13, 2010.
