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.


It happened Monday night in the 2800 block of Barley Court in the Southbridge area of Woodbridge, according to Prince William County police documents.

The victim was inside his house when he heard his dog barking outside, and when he went outside to investigate he was approached by two men, stated police. One of the men had a handgun and demanded money.


ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Yonathan Melaku, 23, of Alexandria, Va., pled guilty today to damaging property and firearm violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in Northern Virginia between October and November 2010 and attempting to injure veterans’ memorials at Arlington National Cemetery.

Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement after the plea was accepted by United States District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee.


The suspect was arrested Tuesday. Prince William police said they stopped the suspect during a traffic stop near his home in the 13700 block of Palm Road in Dale City.

Police searched the suspect’s home, and at a home of a suspect’s acquaintance at 5016 Barnacle Place in Dumfries, and found evidence pertaining to a Jan. 13 shooting into a home in the 2500 block of Oak Tree Lane in Dumfries, Prince William police report.


North Stafford, Va. — Two deputies and a retired law enforcement officer at right place at the right time all chased down a Dumfries man.

Sheriff’s deputies were called to the scene of a crash at 11:35 p.m. Saturday, at the intersection of Va. 610 and the Stafford Marketplace shopping center in North Stafford after two cars, an Acura and Cadillac Escalade, collided on the six-lane road. Both cars were so damaged the road a portion of the road was shut down, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.


Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Eric Hylton, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation’s Washington, D.C., Field Office, made the announcement after sentencing by United States District Judge T.S. Ellis, III. Fournier was pleaded on Oct. 21, 2011.

“Mr. Fournier was using the federal government as a line of credit, and today his bill came due,” said U.S. Attorney MacBride. “This case and the many others we have brought should serve as a warning to other small businesses that cheating the government is not a good business strategy.”


Stafford, Va. The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in helping to identify a subject involved in a suspicious activity in the Amy Clae subdivision in Stafford County.

On Friday, January 13, 2012 at approximately 8:00am, a 10 year old female was outside her residence on Nugent Drive in the Amy Clae subdivision when a male subject, sitting in an older, white van, called out to the juvenile stating “come over here, I won’t hurt you”. The 10 year old did not comply with the subject’s request and ran back into the house.


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