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.
He’s been dubbed the “Dapper Bandit” and is wanted for robbing several banks in New York City.
Law enforcement officials say 52-year-old Dana Connor is 5 feet 7 inches tall, 210 pounds with brown eyes, and believe he could live in Virginia and could have been traveling from the Washington area to New York City to rob the banks since September.
A deputy was called at 1:20 p.m. to investigate a car traveling on I-95 south at the Va. 630 exit in Stafford, after someone called 911 to report the car was swerving between lanes. The deputy stopped the car, smelled alcohol on the driver, noticed the driver’s speech was slurred, and later found marijuana inside the car, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The driver was also seen throwing objects from the car while on I-95, said Kennedy.
More than 40 cases of mailboxes being smashed and knocked off their posts, as well as side mirrors mission from vehicles were reported in connection to the spree, in the Park Ridge, Austin Ridge, Augustine, and Amy Clay neighborhoods, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The vandalism happened between 12:15 and 12:45 a.m. Christmas Eve, when police received phone calls from neighbors stating their mailboxes had been damaged and a silver sedan had been seen fleeing the area. Another caller also reported seeing a baseball bat used to knock over the mailboxes, said Kennedy.
Prince William and Dumfries police spotted a car belonging to a suspect in the burglary in the area of U.S. 1 and Old Triangle Road in Triangle about 1:40 p.m. Police stopped the car but the passenger fled on foot, according to police.
The driver was arrested, and then police searched for the suspect but were unable to find him. That’s when K-9 units were called in to track the suspect, whom they later found in a wooded area near a ravine off U.S. 1 north, which runs parallel to Old Triangle Road.
An officer tried to stop a stolen 2002 Corolla in the area of Old Bridge Road and Westridge Drive at 2:20 p.m. But the driver of the car ignored police and speed off down Manchester Way, police said.
A woman bailed out of the car while it was in the area of Manchester and Devonwood ways, said police. She was later found and detained. The driver continued on behind the wheel until he reached the area of Hampstead Lane, where he, too, bailed out of the car.
Owner demands truck, faces charges
A man who fled police at a high rate of speed later came to the sheriff’s office looking for his truck, authorities said.
A Stafford’s sheriff’s deputy patrolling the area near Widewater Road saw a truck speed pass him about 7:20 p.m. Saturday. The deputy followed the truck but eventually lost sight of it, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
North Stafford, Va. – Some might want to look twice, perhaps up, before they use a public restroom.
Stafford sheriff deputies said they caught a man who was in the ceiling on Sunday peeping on women while they were in the bathroom stall at Giant Food in the Doc Stone shopping center. The woman, a store employee, looked up and saw a hand sticking out of the ceiling. So she ran out the bathroom, grabbed a manager, brought them into the manager who told the man to come down but got no response, said Stafford sheriff spokesman Bill Kennedy.
Woodbridge, Va. — Two men from Maryland are charged in a robbery at a popular convenience store in Woodbridge on Nov. 30.
The U.S. Marshall’s Fugitive Taskforce located one of the suspects in the robbery in Timonium, Md. on Wednesday, about 80 miles north of where the robbery took place at the Handy Dandy Market on Occoquan Road. That arrest led to the capture of another man Thursday in Prince George’s County, Md., said police.
