Crime

Police arrested the Dumfries teenager and charged him with two counts of robbery, two counts of abduction and with one count of use of a firearm in commission of a felony, said police.

On Dec. 29, at 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy said three males approached them while at the AMC Theatres at Potomac Mills mall and then forced them into a theater, implied they had a weapon, and robbed the victims of cash.

A man walked into the pharmacy in the 13600 block of block of Jefferson Davis Highway in Woodbridge on Dec. 17, implied he had a gun, and then demanded several medications. The man got away with about 1,000 pills, including Percocet and Dilaudid, valued at $5,400, said Prince William police.

James Ronald Bradford, Jr., of Melting Snow Place in Dumfries, is charged with armed robbery, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, and possession of schedule I and II narcotics, said police.

Police reported a shooting into a home in the 3000 block of Seminole Road off Antietam Road in Lake Ridge. Two homes were struck by bullets, but an investigation revealed shots were fired after the alleged gunman had a dispute with the owner, according to police.

No one was injured in the shootings, and police said new information obtained through their investigation led to an arrest.

Police were called to the 4100 block of Wind Flower Court at 9:46 a.m. Friday to investigate when the victim told police her brakes had been tampered with. Unaware of the faulty brakes, the 23-year-old woman and her 2-year-old boy got into the car and started driving, but the brakes were unresponsive.

The woman was able to safely bring the car to a stop without damaging it, said police.

Police said the three victims, a 14-year-old girl and two 15-year-old males all from Woodbridge, were inside AMC Theaters Potomac Mills mall at 5:30 p.m. Thursday when three males walked up to them, two of them escorted the victims into the theater while a third acted as a look out, implied they had a gun, and then took an undisclosed amount of cash from the victim, said police.

The men were said to be between 18 and 25-years-old, two were thin and one had a heavyset build, said police. All were seen wearing blue jeans and dark-colored sweatshirts.