Crime

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.

Erasmo Alvarado-Ibarra, aka “Chiquilin,” 28, of Woodbridge, Va., was convicted of conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. Jose Zuniga-Ruiz, aka “Tio Tony,” 40, of Woodbridge, Va., and Silvestre Castro-Sandoval, aka “Silver,” 36, of Stafford, Va., were both convicted of conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine.

Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Ava Cooper-Davis, Special Agent in Charge for Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s Washington Division; and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement after the jury returned the verdict.

Dumfries, Va. — The man believed to have fired a gunshot that grazed the head of a female pedestrian turned himself into police.

The incident began Friday evening at a basketball game at Gar-Field Senior High School in Woodbridge when a fight broke. Police were called and the unruly group was broken up, stated Prince William police documents.

A Blackberry cell phone was stolen from the Sport and Health Club at 315 Garrisonville Road on Feb. 1.

Afterward, the cell phone owner’s daughter began receiving text messages on her phone sent from the stolen Blackberry. The messages stated the victim could have her phone back if she paid the suspect $80 cash, said Stafford sheriff’s office spokesman Bill Kennedy. The suspect purchased the phone from a friend from that prince and apparently wanted to recoup her money, said Kennedy.

Woodbridge, Va. — A formerly homeless man whose story of recovery praised by so many now faces charges in a sex case involving an 11-year-old girl.

Danny “J.D.” Glass, a former homeless resident who for many months lived at the Chesapeake Volunteers of America Hilda Barg Homeless Shelter in Woodbridge, is charged with four counts of aggravated sexual assault and with two counts of indecent liberties, Prince William police documents state.

The incident occurred about 3:30 Thursday morning in the 13600 block of Kitty Hawk Lane, just off Mary’s Way in Woodbridge.

The 23-year-old woman was walking to her home when a man began following her. When the woman confronted the man, she saw he wasn’t wearing any pants and that he exposed himself to her, according to Prince William police documents.

Police said the victim and the suspect began chatting on the internet, and the man on February 1 drove from Palmyra – a town that sits about 20 minutes away from Charlottesville – to meet the victim in the parking lot of Forest Park High School off Spriggs Road and Va. 234 near Dumfries. Two days later, the man once again drove to the area and met the girl in a parking lot of a Holiday Inn, at 3901 Fettler Park Drive near Dumfries.

Both times the two engaged in sexual acts, according to Prince William police documents.

North Stafford, Va. — A Stafford sheriff’s deputy drew his taser weapon and got into a struggle with a suspect Monday night.

About 9 p.m., witnesses called 911 and reported seeing flashlights near an area with homes under construction as well as containers used for storing construction materials on Bismark Drive.